Pages "using significant energy"

[noshooz]

I've recently wondered sometimes why my new M5 MacBook Air gets warm on the bottom when I'm only using Safari and Pages. I check the Battery icon at the top of screen and it reports Pages is using significant energy. Pages is just essentially a word processing app. Why would it use significant energy? And while this is happening my battery drain is noticeable. It doesn't do it all the time, though.

 

[Refractor]

I've recently wondered sometimes why my new M5 MacBook Air gets warm on the bottom when I'm only using Safari and Pages. I check the Battery icon at the top of screen and it reports Pages is using significant energy. Pages is just essentially a word processing app. Why would it use significant energy? And while this is happening my battery drain is noticeable. It doesn't do it all the time, though.

Had the same problem (on 15.7.3, not sure how things will be on macOS 26.4 though).

But one tip I found:

In System Settings go to Siri Suggestions& Privacy and look for Pages on the left side panel and disable Learn from this Application (I disabled the crap Siri for everything as much possible anyway but often it creeps back in):

 

[noshooz]

Had the same problem (on 15.7.3, not sure how things will be on macOS 26.4 though).

But one tip I found:

In System Settings go to Siri Suggestions& Privacy and look for Pages on the left side panel and disable Learn from this Application (I disabled the crap Siri for everything as much possible anyway but often it creeps back in):
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Thanks! I'll try this and see if it works.

 

[neutrino17]

I haven’t seen this on my MacStudio or iPad. You might try using Activity Monitor in Tahoe to look for suspicious activity.

 

[noshooz]

I haven’t seen this on my MacStudio or iPad. You might try using Activity Monitor in Tahoe to look for suspicious activity.

That's one place where checked after seeing the notification. It was at the top of the energy usage tab. So far the suggestion to turn off "Allow Siri to learn from this app" has stopped it.

 

[IndigoQuack]

Thanks to @Refractor for the tip.

I was also experiencing this issue on my M4 MacBook Air and couldn't think of any earthly reason why Pages should be chewing through battery and making my shiny new laptop warm to the touch.

Since toggling this setting, the issue seems to be resolved! Yet another great reason to completely ignore Siri/Apple Intelligence.

 

[Refractor]

Thanks to @Refractor for the tip.

I was also experiencing this issue on my M4 MacBook Air and couldn't think of any earthly reason why Pages should be chewing through battery and making my shiny new laptop warm to the touch.

Since toggling this setting, the issue seems to be resolved! Yet another great reason to completely ignore Siri/Apple Intelligence.

I take no credit for this.

I found it somewhere in a forum (but cannot remember where).

At least Apple tells us: 'Hey sucker, Apple speaking here, we are spying on you. So that you know it.'