What is corespotlightd on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
Indexes content that apps share with Spotlight, like emails, notes and messages.
corespotlightd handles Core Spotlight, which lets apps add their own content to Spotlight search, such as emails in Mail, notes, messages and items from third-party apps. It's busier when apps donate lots of content, for example after setting up a mail account.
- Category
- Apple service
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as corespotlightd
Why is corespotlightd using so much CPU or memory?
- Mail, Notes, Messages or other apps indexing lots of content
- Setting up accounts with large histories
- Rebuilding the Spotlight index
What to do
- 1Let indexing finish
- 2In System Settings > Spotlight, turn off categories you never search
- 3Restart your Mac
Safe to quit? With care.
macOS relaunches it; some search results may be missing briefly.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library