why the finder is always running even Mac in shutdown?

KamraanAjmal wrote:

can you please explain how did you resolve

In the case of the OP (dhamodharan241) and others, it appears that Screen Time is incorrectly reporting Finder usage - a bug(?). The OP does not require the use of Screen Time's application usage tracking and limiting functions, so rather than continue to stress about the buggy reporting, the OP simply chose to turn off Screen Time and ignore it.

Since a simple reboot of your Mac doesn’t appear to fix things, see if the problem still happens in Safe mode. It can take much longer to safe boot so be patient.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support 

Safe mode will often correct weird software behavior by forcing the OS to do disk repair, clear caches and other housekeeping and disables acceleration and third-party mods. When you're in safe boot, the machine won’t be at its best performance, especially with graphics, but that's expected.

Does the same thing happen while in Safe mode?

Exit safe mode by restarting your Mac normally and evaluate the issue again.

dhamodharan241 wrote:

Can you please tell me what is the usage of "Screen time" in Mac.

In a nutshell, Screen Time is simply a software tool that allows you to monitor and limit application usage on the Mac. What is Screen Time on Mac? - Apple Support

When Screen Time is working properly it would give accurate feedback. Apparently for some users it is not providing an accurate usage report for Finder. This appears to be a bug in the software.

The app is not critical to anything that you do otherwise on the Mac and should have no effect on performance. Unless Screen Time is actively limiting your access to applications on your computer, you can safely ignore it and its reports. Or more simply, just turn it off.

By the way, if you turn off Screen Time, ❝ ...All limits, downtime, content and privacy restrictions, and communication settings will be removed. ❞

Also, you might try turning Screen Time off and then on again and see what effect - if any - that has. Maybe do that while logged into safe mode. How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support 

If you'd like to be proactive and report this problem directly to Apple – they don't participate in the Community –you can leave product feedback using this link: Product Feedback - Apple

poetangel wrote:

I am having this issue on my iPad. I turned it on at 8am today and it already had 8 hours of screen time. It’s just a gray bar but no app is showing that many hours in the list. That was an air 4 and today I received my air 5 and it shows finder in the list now. But this is showing use on my iPad itself, my MacBook Air shows zero screen time. How can I fix this? It’s been about a month I think of having 16+ hours daily of screen time on my iPad, which maybe does coincide with sequoia yet i don’t have that usage on my Mac…

The screen time includes the past 24 hours. Are you saying you used the iPad for less than 8 hours in the past 24 hours?

When you say you "turned it on” do you mean you locked the screen earlier (or it auto-locked) and you just woke it up, or that you shut it down completely earlier:

To turn off iPad, do one of the following:

• Models with the Home button: Press and hold the top button until the slider appears, then drag the slider.
• Other models: Simultaneously press and hold the top button and either volume button until the sliders appear, then drag the top slider.
• All models: Go to Settings  > General > Shut Down, then drag the slider.

It’s programmed like that I think it kinda is based off finder, my 2006 MacBook Pro does it even if it’s on macOSX snow leopard. I think it’s always done this.

If you have shutdown the computer, nothing is running.

If you're using the computer, Finder is running.

You still haven't answered what you think is a problem with what you're seeing.

dhamodharan241 wrote:

@Lawrence Finch

Then why screen time for finder shows 18h 32min. On this 18h 32min my Mac is in shutdown.

No, your Mac is NOT is shutdown, you only think it is.

..More often than not, once the computer is properly

fully OFF, you need to login again with 2FA to restart.

This may include Log Out from an Admin user too.

Other options without having newest MacOS vary.

Of course may not hurt to start/test in Safe mode.

can you please explain how did you resolve

Then your iPad is broken, or you didn’t actually turn it off.

And you are in the wrong thread; this is a thread about Finder, and iPads don’t have Finder.

Finder is the underlying process that runs the computer. Its the file manager and and desktop process, manages connections etc... It does a lot of stuff and will always be running.

If you shut down Finder, everything on your desktop goes away until it starts again and will do so automatically.