2019 MBP CPU high and battery drain

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)

After a few days of running, the photolibraryd task accumulated max CPU time and my overall CPU became very high and very hot, fan spike and battery drain to dead, have to restart but happened twice in the past 7 days.

MacBook, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 17, 2020 09:27 PM

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Sean_W.

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Posted on Oct 17, 2020 09:34 PM

Here are some articles that may help.

About Mac notebook batteries - Apple Support
Keep your Mac notebook within acceptable operating temperatures - Apple Support
About fans and fan noise in your Apple product - Apple Support
See how apps affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity - Apple Support

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Sean_W.

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Oct 17, 2020 09:34 PM in response to superbillrain

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Oct 17, 2020 09:27 PM in response to superbillrain

Did one SMC just now and monitoring

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