What is avconferenced on Mac?
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Handles the audio and video of FaceTime calls.
avconferenced handles real-time audio and video conferencing for Apple's calling features such as FaceTime. It's active during calls, when it encodes and decodes audio and video, and idle otherwise.
- Category
- Apple service
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as avconferenced
Why is avconferenced using so much CPU or memory?
- An active FaceTime call, especially a video or group call
- Screen sharing during a call
What to do
- 1End calls you're not using
- 2Restart your Mac if it stays busy after calls end
Safe to quit? With care.
It relaunches when needed; any active call will drop.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library