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Is your Mac starting up slowly? A mess of startup and login items might be to blame.

There have been varying reports of the mediaanalysisd background process causing excessive CPU usage in macOS when scanning photos. Here's what it is, what it does, and how to stop it.

} If necessary, decompress the binary data Decode the plist from its binary serialization format Extract its various fields and ensure they have the correct type Decode the `x` key if present, using an XML decoder Previously, all of this work happened in imagent. With iOS 14, however, it all moved into the new BlastDoor service. While the main processing flow still starts in imagent, which receives the raw but unencrypted payload bytes from identityservicesd (part of the IDS framework) in -[IM...

Macworld How to remove startup and login items on your Mac Is your Mac starting up slowly? A mess of startup and login items might be to blame. Credit: Apple When you turn on your Mac, various apps, add-ons, and invisible background processes start running all by themselves. This is usually what you want, but you may sometimes see items running that you don’t recall adding yourself. Where do they come from? Because such items can increase your Mac’s startup time and may de...

Users & Groups, then click the Login Items tab. You’ll see a list of apps (and even files and folders) that open every time you log in. This list is different for each user account on your Mac. Items usually end up on this list because apps added them to it. Most apps that do so ask you for permission first or have an “Open at login” or similar checkbox in its settings. In any case, you can add an item to the list manually by clicking the (+) button, or remove an item by selecting it an...