This information and the information in the Energy pane can help identify processes that are affecting Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity. The CPU pane shows how processes are affecting CPU (processor) activity:Ĭlick the top of the “% CPU” column to sort by the percentage of CPU capability used by each process.
System Processes: Processes owned by macOS.
My Processes: Processes owned by your macOS user account.All Processes Hierarchically: Processes that belong to other processes, so you can see the parent/child relationship between them.The View menu also allows you to choose which processes are shown in each pane: Use the five category tabs at the top of the Activity Monitor window to see how processes are affecting your Mac in each category.Īdd or remove columns in each of these panes by choosing View > Columns from the menu bar. The processes shown in Activity Monitor can be user apps, system apps used by macOS, or invisible background processes. Open Activity Monitor from the Utilities folder of your Applications folder, or use Spotlight to find it. This article describes some of the commonly used features of Activity Monitor, a kind of task manager that allows you see how apps and other processes are affecting your CPU, memory, energy, disk, and network usage. Set data limit and billing period, then let Data Usage worry about making sure you don’t pay for overages again. Data usage for all the networks you connect is kept separate, allowing you to monitor each and every network data flow. Here's the app so as to avoid unexpected costs beyond the monthly rate.