What is usernoted on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
Delivers notifications from apps and the system so they can appear on screen.
usernoted is the Notification Center daemon. It receives notifications from apps and from macOS, applies your notification settings and Focus rules, and stores them so they can be shown as banners and in Notification Center. It runs all the time and is usually very light.
- Category
- macOS system
- Made by
- Apple
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as usernoted
Why is usernoted using so much CPU or memory?
- An app sending lots of notifications in a short time
- Many apps delivering notifications at once after waking from sleep
- A large backlog of stored notifications
What to do
- 1Clear old notifications in Notification Center
- 2Turn off or limit notifications for noisy apps in System Settings > Notifications
- 3Restart your Mac
Safe to quit? With care.
macOS relaunches it; notifications may be delayed for a moment.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library