On my Windows 7 64 bit laptop iCloudServices.exe regularly jumps to 99% CPU usage. No data on iCloud Drive, iTunes not running and iCloud set to synchronise only Internet Explorer Bookmarks.
iPhone 6s Plus, Windows 7
I called Apple Support. They confirmed that I have updates of Windows and Apple software and checked latest version of iCloud. Then had me uninstall iCloud and reinstall. But after 2 days, 99% CPU!!! Apple will call me Monday.
Same for me, and it's also using a ridiculous amount of memory. I have turned off all the syncing except the calendar/contacts option because the rest doesn't work anyway. It's currently at 577MB and growing. This is after only one day of runtime as I too reinstalled yesterday.
Really?
I had exactly the same problem. Had no idea my cpu was overheating until I routinely opened Speccy. It showed the cpu at 95C. Task Manager showed iCloud was using 99% of my cpu cycles (i5-2500K, all cores at 4012 Hz). My cpu temp rarely reaches 70C even during heavy usage. I can live w/o a program that threatens to fry my cpu, so I uninstalled iCloud.
This obviously has nothing to do with Internet Explorer or any browser whatsoever. It is a really bad software error in this process. I have it, too.
The only way to fight it for now is to kill it and restart iCloud from Start menu -- until Apple will release update for it.
I had the same problem. I fixed it by uninstalling all the apple programs on my PC, deleting the common files\apple folders in c:\program files and c:\program (x86), then did a forced uninstall of icloud,with Revo Uninstaller which cleaned up all the files and registry entries. I then reinstalled iTunes and iCloud and it.works fine now..
On case number ****, Apple responded on 12 October - "The issue is under investigation and the solution will come as an update for the
iCloud for Windows. There are workarounds besides iCloud for syncing bookmarks from your windows pc to your iPhone to use until the issue is resolved."
I uninstalled iCloud.
Same problem. Using Windows 7. Only photos are enabled to sync. Been this way for a long time and just have not used iCloud until I paid for it. Now I would like to resolve it. It seems the Windows OS does not matter though.
Same problem, Windows 7 64 bit. Been happening for a while now, I woke up today and when I got on my computer it was happening again. I have a 6-core CPU so it's only using 33%, but it's also consuming a hilarious 1.9GB of memory. I checked resource monitor, it's not reading anything from disk. Only fix is to kill the process.
I have the same problem.
Decided by writing a script in PowerShell, and periodically run through the Windows scheduler.
That is, created a file called "icloud_restart.ps1 " with the following content:
"
Stop-Process -Name iCloudServices -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Start-Sleep -s 60
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Internet Services\iCloud.exe"
Start-Sleep -s 20
Stop-Process -Name iCloud -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
"
Then, set the scheduler to run this file every 8 hours.
I understand that it's a crutch, but it works.
I would be grateful for comments/corrections.
Thank you.
Well done, Mike.
If it's possible for people patch together a palliative so promptly, could it mean that Apple are rather unduly dragging their feet in eliminating the problem? Generally speaking, competition is a good thing; but between them, Microsoft and Apple seem to be running headlong in the race around the development circuit, w/o due attention to critical details. For my part, I will forgo iCloud until Apple deal with it.
I just kill the useless PoS exec and stop it running on startup via MSConfig. I discovered it doesn't need to run all the time. I've had problems with the Outlook plug-in for ages anyway, so only run it 'on demand'. When you start the plug-in it starts this thing and then you can synch with your other devices
I run the plug-in about twice a week (it causes outlook to hang on switching to the calendar) so is sufficient, if cumbersome.
I don't think they should be calling this 'integrated with Windows and Outlook'. Far from it.
Time to start contemplating an Android device for my next upgrade.
As I want to access Apple notes on my Windows machine it would be good if I don't have to startup the service. It is enough to access it via a webbrowser. I can use mail and calendar from any platform, but not notes. I would like to see some kind of standard for notes so it is possible to access the notes from any platform.
When will Apple release next update of icloud for Windows?
Hey Mike!
Great idea!
Here's a bit shorter solution: a command to create a scheduled task to run daily at 8 am:
schtasks /create /tn "Restart iCloudSvc" /F /sc daily /ru System /st 08:00 /tr "cmd /c TASKKILL /f /IM iCloudServices.exe & start \"\" \"%CommonProgramFiles(x86)%\Apple\Internet Services\iCloudServices.exe\""Just copy-paste to Start -> Run, ( or Command Prompt window - whatever you like) and press Enter
One correction to command:
schtasks /create /tn "Restart iCloudSvc" /F /sc daily /st 08:00 /tr "cmd /c TASKKILL /f /IM iCloudServices.exe & start \"\" \"%CommonProgramFiles(x86)%\Apple\Internet Services\iCloudServices.exe\"" Previous command was using system account, so process couldn't access user-profile.
It seems that you don't need to run this service. I tested this and as far as calendar updates go, and it certainly runs OK without this service.
see http://www.file.net/process/icloudservices.exe.html
An update from Apple came up a few days ago which gave me icloudservices Vs 5.0.0.0 and iTunes Vs 12.3.2.35. Memory usage still crept up, but at a slower rate of about 100MB per day.
Will see how this (not running icloudservices) goes for the next few days and then disable it from autostart if all goes well.
Why high CPU usage by iCloudServices.exe?
