photoanalysisd taking large amounts of cpu

Very similar experience for me as well. Mid-2011 MacBook Air. 25,000 photos and 2 weeks of screaming fan and slow motion desktop, and only 15,000 photos have been processed so far, and 10,000 to go. All of them have already been processed on my late 2013 MBA as well. No way to turn it off. Yes this particular machine is old, but no it's not okay to force this on us.

I'm new to this forum but having been an Apple user since January 1980. Since installing the latest OS my IMac has slowed to a crawl while this photoanalysisd hogs the CPU and there seems to be no way to stop it or determine when it will stop on its own. The arrogance of the Apple team to just shove a PacMan process down our throats is breathtaking and leads me to wonder whether Apple has lost sight of what made long-term Apple users like me so loyal for all these years. The bungled job on Maps was bad but this one takes the cake.

Yes, I must agree with most here -- both the final decision "managers" at Apple, and the Photos dev team were much too arrogant in assuming that they know what is best for their Apple Mac customers.

So, Apple management and employees: please learn the simple definition of Arrogance:

"An insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter, or more important than other people" (from the Merriam-Webster dictionary).

In other words, when you develop and implement any software, please think about the effect on your average customer, who by the way, is paying your salary. Thank you.

You can get a rough idea of timing by clicking on People, looking at the number of photos already processed, the number of photos remaining, and the amount of time the computer was on since Sierra was installed.

You can pause it by opening Photos (somewhat counterintuitive) or disconnecting from the power supply (which made me laugh since I'm on a desktop Mac). You may be able to stop the process in Activity Monitor. I haven't tried it.

Just did another test with only Photos and Activity monitor open. When I click on Photos to bring it to the front, the process drops to 0.5% within 10 seconds. When I click on the Finder, the process ramps back up to 150% within 20-30 seconds.

So it's not enough to keep Photos open. You have to keep it in the foreground too. In other words, Photos is in control of your computer whether it's on or now.

Voice your opinion at http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

Thanks for the link, EricDu.

I'll send my feedback today.

Thank you for the link....I just sent my feedback as well. I have 35,000 photos, and my MacPro (mid 2012) has been nearly unusable for two weeks. Sometimes the entire system just grinds to a halt and a restart is needed. All of this has happened since Sierra installation. It's maddening and my workflow has been hampered seriously to the point of tossing the computer and considering another brand.

Does anyone know if deleting the Photo app will stop this photoanalysisd nonsense?

Don,

If you kill this process: photolibraryd, photoanalysisd will not start again.

Do a "ps aux" on terminal and you will find photolibraryd here: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PhotoLibraryPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Supp ort/photolibraryd

firuz

Exactly - I don't use it, don't need it - but it's going to take another 10 hours. It was the same in iPhoto, why on earth can't you turn this off?

I have this same problem. I updated to Sierra today and all of a sudden my MacBook Pro is running very slowly. I go to activity monitor to see that "photoanalysisd" is taking upwards of 140% of my cpu. Come on apple, I at least expect a pop-up telling me that it will run the photoanalysis in the background. Or maybe this can run when my MacBook is not in use?

Fix this please.

Thanks

What the actual f*ck?

My Mac has been dying for the past few days because of this! How do I just stop it altogether? I don't want this to run ever. I don't even want the Photos app on my laptop and would remove it if I could.

If you unplug the power supply, it will stop the proces temporarily (as it does while the photo app is open). So this what I do when I need a bit of performance from my mac, just unplug. Plug back in when I am not at my computer.

It's obviously laughable that this service cannot be paused in any normal way.

Totally Agree with you!

Anyone worked out how to turn this off ? There are typical apple bugs in this and mine is stuck at 233 photos left and keeps on spinning up photoanalysisd and consuming loads of CPU even when i'm using the computer !

It's a joke.