What is homed on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
Manages your HomeKit home and controls smart home accessories.
homed manages your home state and controls HomeKit accessories such as lights, plugs and cameras, for the Home app and features that use it. If you don't use HomeKit it does very little.
- Category
- Apple service
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as homed
Why is homed using so much CPU or memory?
- Many HomeKit accessories, or cameras streaming
- Accessories that are unreachable, causing retries
- Home data syncing via iCloud
What to do
- 1Check the Home app for accessories marked 'No Response'
- 2Restart your Mac
Safe to quit? With care.
macOS relaunches it; Home controls may be unavailable briefly.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library