photoanalysisd taking large amounts of cpu

Are you sure it died because of this?

Changed my mind. Clearly this issue is impacting lots of people worse than it impacted me.

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist

Pasting this into Terminal worked for me. Instant halt of the process. my 27" imac is back to low-res gaming! 😁

The Photos app has to be launched AND be in the foreground for the process to pause. So, essentially, it only stops when you're actively using Photos, not when you're trying to work in another app.

Won't the com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist be regenerated once you start photos? if this is the case then if I use Photos then I will have to repeat, right?

Thank you for your explanation, appreciated it will give it a try?

Doesn't look like there is an answer from Apple on how to stop this other than removing Photos from the machine? Oh, I suppose I could buy a new mac, maybe that is the goal of this 'feature'?

When you click on the People icon under Albums in Photos, the center pane of the app should say how many photos have been scanned and how many are remaining.

From my experience, when you see the faces, it means that the import has completed. Are you still seeing high CPU consumption by photoanalysisd in Activity Monitor?

+1 I can confirm that photoanalysisd processes 1000 photos per hour