Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com

You might have noticed something named cloudd running on your Mac while using Activity Monitor. Should you be worried? What is this? This process is part of macOS, and is related to iCloud.
This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Activity Monitor, like kernel_task, hidd, mdsworker, installd, WindowServer, blued, launchd, backup, opendirectoryd, powerd, coreauthd, configd, mdnsresponder, UserEventAgent, nsurlstoraged, commerce, parentalcontrold, sandboxd, and many others. Don’t know what those services are?
Better start reading!Today’s process, cloudd, is a daemon, which means it runs in the background handling system tasks. This particular daemon is related to CloudKit, as a quick look at the man page shows us. You can see the man page yourself by typing man cloudd
in the Terminal, but here’s what you’ll see:
cloudd is the system daemon backing the CloudKit feature.
Of course, knowing about this is only helpful if you know what CloudKit is in the first place. To find that out let’s check out the…
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