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It has been noticed that all of my data packages "idleassetsd" consumed in one day 60GB first date, 2nd 30 and now running with 14GB, apart from this "nsurlsessiond" also consumes lot of data,
Is there any solution for this? this is very annoying after Sonoma update. altogether 193GB of consumed
iMac 21.5″, macOS 14.1
I ran into this issue as well as idleassetsd in my activity monitor was using 50GB/hr that led to over 700GB usage per day.
I contacted Apple Support and they recommended setting Wallpapers and Screensavers to a static image.
After restarting Activity Monitor idleassetsd stopped downloading as it is now at 0 bytes sent and recieved.
From the first instance I used to block this "idleassetsd" & "nsurlsessiond" service and finally it stopped downloading the movie files and sofar away it didnt gave me any problem even I update to Sequoia and I think this is the best solution for it.
my advice is if you need to go ahead with live wall papers use 3rd party wallperper service like "my Wallpaper" and end this berden for all.
Just curious what does 127.0.0.1 signify, does it result in a noop?
When I deny access using the LS firewall, idleassetsd does something else later on, when it wakes up: On my mac mini it generates 1000 network access requests per second, and never stops. Idleassetsd seems to require completion as measured by download of specific files. Seems if network connection blocked by LS the daemon code just spins on “try again,” which is a bug (no delay before retry). The process becomes the top-consumer cpu thread, the computer gets quite hot all the time. Apple’s killing my mac mini by baking it.
I’ve got to where I won’t leave this machine powered up 24/7 in the living room. Shut off when not in use. Annoying as it’s my music server too.
I selected a picture wallpaper but idleassetsd is still showing as using 50% of my CPU (M1 Mac Mini), it isn't downloading anything but it has written 1 terabytes since I restarted the mini yesterday. How do I disable this rogue process??
I have this issue too. It’s downloading more than 100GB and won’t stop. I selected a static wallpaper and screensaver, but it continues downloading. I blocked internet access for idleassetsd using the LuLu app. After that, idleassetsd seems to hang, using 60% of my M1 CPU and filling up all my RAM. Right now, I’ve written a shell script to repeatedly kill the process so I can use my device. This is a bad situation and needs to be fixed.
Setting static wallpaper and screensaver and then rebooting did not make any difference
Wiping /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd (eg sudo killall idleassetsd; sudo rm -r "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd") seems to have worked so far
if idealassetd process is consuming heavy data, try this setting, go to screensaver and change the Shuffle All option to Every Day or Higher as below.
Sorry That doesn't work at all, All the time it was on low data mode, working fine with Ventura, But this is not apply with this and this screen savers gives bad experiences
Then how to stop that
Turning on LowData did not help me. Even after cycling WiFi. Even after rebooting the MacMini. idleassetsd does not seem to respect any Low Data Mode constraint. (Sonoma 14.4.1)
my problem solved. i used fast internet in one week. download is finished
Good!!! But it is not a solution. if you update OSX it will pop up and consume data back again.
DenBay wrote:
my problem solved. i used fast internet in one week. download is finished
This solution finally worked for me, but I had to let the previously started download run its course. Yes, 60gb gone, and killed my internet packaged for the month.
and also try freeing up harddisk
How to stop this can you explain me
Disable live wallpapers, that fixed it for me.
High Band With "idleassetsd" & "nsurlsessiond" back ground process
