Podcasts App is an Energy Drainer on Mac

Macbook Air M3 user over here. Heading to the Activity Monitor I can see that Podcasts has always been using a significant amount of energy in the past 12 hours. It is always listed as top 5 over there despite the fact that I have never opened this app or used it.

MacBook Air 15″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 17, 2025 09:50 AM

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