You’re looking through Activity Monitor when you notice a process called blued. Should you be worried that this is running? No: it’s the process that powers Bluetooth on your Mac.
This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Activity Monitor, like kernel_task, hidd, mdsworker, installd, WindowServer and many others. Don’t know what those services are?
Better start reading!Just to be clear: blued is not related to the Chinese gay dating app Blued (yes, researching this article was very confusing). Rather, blued is a macOS daemon, or background process, that handles Bluetooth connections on your Mac. To quote the blued man page:
The Bluetooth daemon handles SDP transactions, link key management, and incoming connection acceptance.
To summarize: any time you connect a speaker, mouse, keyboard,…
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