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What is this and why in the world would I want or need it running?
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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.5
Go to Apple > System Setting > General > Login Items & Extensions > Remove - if it is an Item in Open at Login.
Go to Apple > System Setting > General > Login Items & Extensions > Remove - if it is an Item in Open at Login.
You may have a Stocks widget in the Notification Center (perhaps synced from an iPhone). The Stocks.app will be running in the background to refresh the widget. If there, delete the widget.
Try:
Force Quit Stocks from the Apple menu.
How to force an app to quit on Mac - Apple Support
Force Quit that Stock App. process using Activity Monitor.
Quit an app or process in Activity Monitor on Mac - Apple Support
Startup in Safe Mode, then restart normally.
Nor do I, on 3 M-Class computer all with Sequoia 15.5
The Widget does appear in Activity Monitor and does appear in the Fly Out from Control Centre ( Top Right of Screen )
I even Removed the Stocks app from the iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 18.5
Very little CPU usage though
In which case as @ neuroanatomist suggests " delete the widget. "
That's the issue - I don't have the stocks widget going on either of my other Apple devices (iPhone 14 Pro Max and iPad Pro 12)
Not listed there. That was my first thought.
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I see pretty much the same thing in Activity Monitor for those two processes.
den.thed wrote:
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I see pretty much the same thing in Activity Monitor for those two processes.
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/4ef9778f-9191-44fe-a4a4-543d08ac1cf0
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Stocks app loading at startup (How to prevent)?
