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What is generativeexperiencesd on Mac?

By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed

Apple Intelligence: powers on-device features like summaries and Writing Tools.

generativeexperiencesd powers generative features such as summarisation and text composition on your Mac, which are part of Apple Intelligence (for example Writing Tools and notification summaries). It's active when you use those features.

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

Shown in Activity Monitor as generativeexperiencesd

Why is generativeexperiencesd using so much CPU or memory?

  • Using Writing Tools or summaries
  • Notification or email summaries being generated
  • After enabling Apple Intelligence

What to do

  1. 1Wait for the current request to finish
  2. 2Turn off features you don't use in System Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri
  3. 3Restart your Mac

Safe to quit? With care.

macOS relaunches it; the current AI request may fail.

Related processes

Part of the Taskglass Process Library

See it live in Taskglass.

Taskglass shows what generativeexperiencesd 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.