What is biomed on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
Part of Biome, Apple's system for processing app and device activity events used for personalisation.
biomed is the daemon for Biome, an Apple system that processes streams of events about app and device activity in real time for features that subscribe to them, such as suggestions and personalisation. Apple documents it only briefly. It's normally light.
- Category
- Apple service
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as biomed, BiomeAgent
Why is biomed using so much CPU or memory?
- Processing a backlog of events, for example after a macOS update
- Lots of app activity
What to do
- 1Wait; activity is usually temporary
- 2Restart your Mac if it stays busy
Safe to quit? With care.
macOS relaunches it; there's no benefit in quitting it.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library