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What is CommCenter on Mac?

By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed

Lets your Mac make and receive phone calls through your iPhone.

CommCenter provides the functionality that allows phone calls to be made and received on your Mac, using your nearby iPhone's cellular connection. It runs in the background and is normally light.

Category
Apple service
Made by
Apple
Safe to quit:
With care

Shown in Activity Monitor as CommCenter

Why is CommCenter using so much CPU or memory?

  • Calls or text messages relayed from your iPhone
  • Your iPhone repeatedly connecting and disconnecting

What to do

  1. 1If you don't use iPhone calls on your Mac, turn off 'Calls from iPhone' in FaceTime settings
  2. 2Restart your Mac

Safe to quit? With care.

macOS relaunches it; calls from iPhone may briefly not ring on your Mac.

Related processes

Part of the Taskglass Process Library

See it live in Taskglass.

Taskglass shows what CommCenter is doing on your Mac right now, explains it in plain English, and tells you if it's safe. It does the same for 213 other processes.