> Apple is pretty good at having daemons that randomly take 100% cpu with no recourse Spotlight/mds/mdworker/... has been a monstrosity since forever, but the

> Apple is pretty good at having daemons that randomly take 100% cpu with no recourse Spotlight/mds/mdworker/... has been a monstrosity since forever, but the accursed macOS daemons that earn my unending ire are photoanalysisd and syspolicyd. (The former probably runs on iOS as well but I mitigate it by deleting photos after import.) Whenever I pull my laptop out of a bag or backpack and it's unreasonably hot, photoanalysisd or syspolicyd are usually to blame, scanning the same files again for the 1000th time. I haven't enabled smart nap, so this must be the "stupid nap" functionality. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to disable these evil daemons without messing with SIP etc. Even if you disable awful misfeatures of Photos like Memories, photoanalysisd still runs. Syspolicyd doesn't have a UI. At least with spotlight you can disable it on certain volumes, though of course that breaks Mail's search function. Regarding 100% CPU, I wonder if low-power mode would help? iOS low-power mode seems like a great feature, but unfortunately it turns itself back on after the battery charges.