How to permanently disable background processes on MacOS?

[julesme]

Hi everyone - I set up AdGuard for Safari for an elderly relative, and I accidentally allowed the main app to "continue running in the background" on her MBP (it's not necessary and probably just wastes the battery).

Is there an easy way to permanently disable an app's background process on MacOS? If I manually kill the AdGuard process in Activity Monitor, I believe it will just come back on every time she restarts her MBP.

Thanks in advance!

 

[mfram]

You'd probably have to remove it from the Login Items. How that's done is different on different versions of MacOS. It's under Account settings though. Look for that in Settings. But the app install may have added it to the System startup items. Those are harder to get rid of.

 

[NoBoMac]

(it's not necessary and probably just wastes the battery)

Not really. AdGuard is a pretty far down the list regarding battery usage. I use it and it's barely a blip in Activity Monitor. Mail, Safari, Dock, kernel_task, Finder, Dropbox are all WAY more power hungry than AdGuard.