I absolutely love my new 16" M1 Max MBP. The screen is beyond gorgeous. But after a few days, I was noticing that it seemed to feel a bit warm. Never to the point of being "hot", nor did it ever make any noise, but it was measurably running warmer vs. my previous 13" M1 MBP.
I wrote it off to just probably a bunch of things indexing and running as part of a new build, and didn't think too much of it, thinking it would be temporary, until I noticed that "CCXProcess" was "Using Significant Energy", along with using 100% CPU utilization in Activity Monitor.
It seems that certain apps that affect your network settings, such as AdGuard, can have the adverse effect of locking certain background processes, like CCXProcess (which is from Adobe Creative Cloud), into running at 100%. Apparently, it's due to a bug on Apple's part (and not the fault of the developers of AdGuard nor Adobe).
Reference 1: AdGuard Forum Thread
Reference 2: Issue Thread on GitHub
Reference 3: Related Apple Developer Forum Thread
Resolution:
After completely uninstalling AdGuard, my new 16" M1 Max MBP is back to running cool to the touch (all the time!), and surprise surprise, battery is also draining much more slowly.
Workaround:
Instead of using the AdGuard client for Mac, I've temporarily switched to using AdGuard DNS servers to get general purpose ad blocking coverage across the OS (I also use the Chrome extension).
If I ever remember to check in on this in the future to see if this gets resolved, I'll post an update here. But in the meantime, hopefully this will help any other new M1 Pro/Max owners deal with this weird quirk.
I wrote it off to just probably a bunch of things indexing and running as part of a new build, and didn't think too much of it, thinking it would be temporary, until I noticed that "CCXProcess" was "Using Significant Energy", along with using 100% CPU utilization in Activity Monitor.
It seems that certain apps that affect your network settings, such as AdGuard, can have the adverse effect of locking certain background processes, like CCXProcess (which is from Adobe Creative Cloud), into running at 100%. Apparently, it's due to a bug on Apple's part (and not the fault of the developers of AdGuard nor Adobe).
Reference 1: AdGuard Forum Thread
Reference 2: Issue Thread on GitHub
Reference 3: Related Apple Developer Forum Thread
Resolution:
After completely uninstalling AdGuard, my new 16" M1 Max MBP is back to running cool to the touch (all the time!), and surprise surprise, battery is also draining much more slowly.
Workaround:
Instead of using the AdGuard client for Mac, I've temporarily switched to using AdGuard DNS servers to get general purpose ad blocking coverage across the OS (I also use the Chrome extension).
If I ever remember to check in on this in the future to see if this gets resolved, I'll post an update here. But in the meantime, hopefully this will help any other new M1 Pro/Max owners deal with this weird quirk.
