Excessive bandwidth usage? Check Apple News

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Last month I received a notice I was almost out of allocated bandwidth (1.25 TB) for the month which I didn’t think much of. Earlier this month I received another email saying I’ve already used up 50% of my bandwidth and I was only 10 days into the billing cycle. After digging around my firewall logs, I noticed the domain c.apple.news was consuming a significant amount of bandwidth, anywhere from 40-120+ Gb per day. I did some searching around and came across this thread on the official Apple forums. Turns out, several people are experiencing this issue when iCloud syncing is enabled for Apple News on macOS. After turning it off, it seems to have fixed the issue.

Figured it would be worth posting here to spread the word in case anyone else is running into the same issue. I’ve submitted the issue to Apple but who knows where those submissions end up. Hopefully it gets fixed in the next macOS Big Sur update.

 

[Weaselboy]

I have News sync turned on in iCloud and I'm not seeing data usage like that at all. Winder what is up with your Mac that is causing this?

 

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I have News sync turned on in iCloud and I'm not seeing data usage like that at all. Winder what is up with your Mac that is causing this?

Yeah, I suspect it’s not an issue for all Apple News users, but it’s happening to quite a few people based on what I can see in that thread I linked to on the Apple support forums. I do wonder if it’s linked to Apple One or Apple News+?

Someone also mentioned in that other thread that running the beta macOS 11.2 seems to have resolved the problem for them, so hopefully it’s something that’s already been fixed in an upcoming release.