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vett93

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Jul 27, 2014
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Since I upgraded to Catalina, I have noticed that photoanalysisd comes up frequently, uses up to 100% of the CPU, and runs for a long time. Is there a way that I can disable it? I don't use Apple photos app. So there is no reason for it to run.
 

Glenny2lappies

macrumors 6502a
Sep 29, 2006
578
420
Brighton, UK
Quite angry that tosh like photoanalysisd takes up MY CPU time without me allowing it. There's no benefit to this application as I don't / won't use photos.

Waiting for an answer to this.
 
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Fishrrman

macrumors Penryn
Feb 20, 2009
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This used to work in Sierra. Not sure if it works in Catalina. Worth a try:

Open Terminal and paste this into Terminal window:
sudo launchctl remove com.apple.photoanalysisd

If you want to enable it paste this:
sudo launchctl load com.apple.photoanalysisd
 
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Glenny2lappies

macrumors 6502a
Sep 29, 2006
578
420
Brighton, UK
Had to force quit photoanalysisd - which has taken 34 DAYS of my CPU time (interesting as it's on a MBP 16") and is by far the highest CPU consuming application.

Have tried the launchctl remove; need to reboot to see if the damn thing comes back.
 

alfon_sico

macrumors regular
Oct 3, 2015
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I just looking for forcing the agent instead of delay for 2 hours

I saw a solution changing a parameter inside plist but in Ventura macOS is almost imposible changing nothing in System folder

Any solution?
 
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