What is "followupd"?

does any of this shed any light on what it is

https://www.reddit.com/r/OSXElCapitan/comments/3i1xey/what_is_followupd/

some have reported seeing it with 10.11.1 when it did not exist previously with 10.11.0

It might be Apple snuck it in during the update.

you can ask here, but it appears to be new and it might be from apple specifically for 10.11.1

https://forums.developer.apple.com/welcome

There's a discussion about this here: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/followupd.1930817/

It's definitely Apple software. My guess is that it is a daemon that is used for creating the notifications you see on your screen for various processes.

Go to Activity Monitor, then search for FollowUp. If the process is running, just hit the "Sample" button at the bottom. This will produce a profile of the process for you to review. You can see that it is "hooked" into many different frameworks and processes.

Why does it show up in the notifications area on some installs and not others? I'm guessing (purely a wild guess) that it might have something to do with another tool that is installed (like Xcode) that causes FollowUpD to appear in the notifications area (a debug flag or something).

I found this: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/213366/whats-the-followupd-in-notificat ions

It says "This is part of the private CoreFollowup System Framework" and "There is no documentation about it, but the header files found at (that's for iOS, but I guess the framework is the same)... ...don't show any evil things."

And the guy supposes "it's for "following up" on notifications posted by other applications. There is an internal database of which the statements can be grabbed from the binary. It only contains title, body, some IDs and dates."

it's just weird that something so arcane and "none of your business, users" should be showing up in the notification center along with the other named packages. I'd say its glitchy of apple to leave something so weird looking hanging out like that without a help topic or a nice sounding name attached. They should give it a pretty picture and name it something like "system message follow up puppy/kitten". Nobody would give it a second thought.

This now appears as Screen Sharing after the 10.11.2 update.

After 10.11.2 update, I still see "followupd".

You're right. Found this elsewhere:

This is part of the private CoreFollowup System Framework at

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreFollowUp.framework/Versions/A/Support/followupd

There is no documentation about it, but the header files found at (that's for iOS, but I guess the framework is the same):

https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers/tree/master/PrivateFrameworks/CoreFol lowUp.framework

don't show any evil things.

I suppose, it's for "following up" on notifications posted by other applications. There is an internal database of which the statements can be grabbed from the binary. It only contains title, body, some IDs and dates. Example:

INSERT INTO notifications (item_id, title, body, unlock_label, relevance_date, activate_action_id, dismiss_action_id, clear_action_id) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

So, no – you should and cannot remove it.

The correct term for this would actually be a daemon. A daemon is a background process or service that does not receive any type of interaction from the user. Apple conveniently named their daemons to have a letter "d" at the end of the process name.

airportd

appleeventsd

cloudd

findmydeviced

etc...

Me too.

I'm glad I was able to find some information on this. Lately  has been letting me down in regards to the iMac that I bought two years ago.