Pages Consumes more than 60% on average of CPU capacity!

MacBook Pro 202 Intel: I'm just using pages (version 14.3 (7042.0.76) to create a simple lesson plan with a few tables that contain a few simple arithmetic formulas, and the laptop heats up as if I've been on a Zoom call for nearly an hour! Activity Monitor shows that, together with Pages, there's a process named "tccd" taking up sometimes more than 80% of CPU capacity. The problem persists even if I open a simple doc of three pages full of regular text! What's going on??

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Feb 21, 2025 05:08 AM

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Feb 21, 2025 06:42 AM in response to Samerman

The tccd daemon (Transparency, Consent, Control) manages the operating system privacy database. Its reported usage will be continuously variable depending on your activity. In Sequoia, I would start in System Settings > Privacy & Security and begin by looking to see if Pages is enabled in the following:

  • Files & Folders
    • Pages -> iCloud Drive On
  • Full Disk Access
    • I do not have Pages enabled here but that is your option
  • Photos
    • Pages - Full access
  • Automation
    • Only if you are using AppleScript or Automator with Pages
  • Sensitive Content Warning - Off
  • Analytics & Improvements
    • All Off
  • Apple Advertising
    • Personalized Ads are off
  • Apple Intelligence Report - Off
  • FileVault - Off
  • Lockdown Mode - Off


These reflect my settings on Sequoia v15.3.1. Once you have gone through that list and made any changes, reboot your Mac.


I am watching two tccd processes in Activity Monitor. They are 0.0% and after I open a 180-page Pages document, that changes to 0.2 and 0.4 % respectively for less than 15 seconds, and then they drop back to 0.0%. Pages is using 0.8% of the CPU in Activity Monitor.


I suspect the issue you have has nothing to do with Pages but rather something else you have running on your Mac concurrent with your opening that Pages document.


Do you have any brand of anti-virus or anti-malware application running on your Mac?

Feb 21, 2025 09:58 AM in response to VikingOSX

Hello, thanks! I appreciate your time.

My privacy settings looked pretty much the same as yours. tccd jumps to the top of the activity monitor list only a minute or so after opening Pages. I started noticing this problem only a week or so ago. Before that, everything was normal. I don't have any anti-virus software on my MacBook Pro (2020, Intel, Sequoia 15.3.1) because I don't think Macs need antivirus. Besides, I never visit any suspicious websites or click on any strange links. On the applications side, I think Zoom is the only non-Apple app I have on my Mac.

Feb 21, 2025 11:04 AM in response to Samerman

I certainly was not recommending the installation of anti-virus software…🙃


With only Pages v14.3 running here and no other applications launched, my tccd percentages are zero. So, I cannot recreate or identify the reason why your tccd values spike in Activity Monitor. It will probably bother you as long as you watch for it in Activity Monitor, and frankly, I rarely launch Activity Monitor here.

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