Why is remoted running in MacOS?

I launched Activity Monitor to learn, to see, without fiddling around. I see running remoted spelled exactly like this: r e m o t e d NOT "remote"

iMac 27″, macOS 15.6

Posted on Aug 24, 2025 5:47 PM

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Posted on Aug 24, 2025 5:54 PM

Anything ending in a ‘d’ is a daemon – a process running persistently in the background. The remoted (remote daemon) process discovers remote devices and services.


You can go into the Terminal app and type “man process name”, e.g.:

man remoted


…to learn more about many processes you see in Activity Monitor.

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Aug 24, 2025 5:54 PM in response to AlanWKelly

Anything ending in a ‘d’ is a daemon – a process running persistently in the background. The remoted (remote daemon) process discovers remote devices and services.


You can go into the Terminal app and type “man process name”, e.g.:

man remoted


…to learn more about many processes you see in Activity Monitor.

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Why is remoted running in MacOS?

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