Tired of High CPU usage on MacOS with heard ??
Posted by get on May 15 2025 00:12:53

HearD on MacOS seems to come included with the OS, usefull PrivateFramework as apple tries to let us belive... nothing further as useless for users, only for them.

Its for managing notification sounds, but not system notifications or new mail... whatever other related with bluetooth earpods when they are in range or disconect...

 

Read more to find out how to disable it and get rid the cpu usage spare for your purposes...

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launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/com.apple.accessibility.heard |grep path


this will show you the plist file used to start it by launchd, so to disable it :

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.accessibility.heard.plist

ejoy!