How to prevent/stop photoanalysisd from running

[vett93]

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]

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.

 

[Fishrrman]

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

 

[Glenny2lappies]

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]

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?

 

[bogdanw]

With SIP disabled, you can stop it from starting https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...aryd-and-photoanalysisd.2376267/post-31860529

 

[alfon_sico]

With SIP disabled, you can stop it from starting https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...aryd-and-photoanalysisd.2376267/post-31860529

I want to do the opposite, I want to force start in 15 minutes instead 2 hours

 

[bogdanw]

I want to do the opposite, I want to force start in 15 minutes instead 2 hours

As you can’t modify the plist file, you could create your own launch agent and restart photoanalysisd every 15 minutes.

/bin/launchctl kickstart -k gui/501/com.apple.photoanalysisd

Example of custom launch agent https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/login-items-hide.2366349/post-31680952