Apple News
Apple News (com.apple.news) is Apple's built-in news-reading app, pre-installed on every Mac since macOS Mojave. It shows you a personalised feed of articles from publishers and topics you choose, with Apple's own editors curating a Top Stories section. It also powers the News widget in Notification Center and on the desktop. A free tier is included; an optional paid tier called News+ adds hundreds of magazines and newspapers. Your reading preferences sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud.
News — owned by Apple Inc..
- When it runs hot
- Apple News runs a background helper (newsd) and a widget process (NewsToday2) that continuously fetch and cache articles, even when the app itself is not open. High CPU or unusually heavy internet usage usually means one of these background processes is refreshing content, syncing reading history through iCloud, or — in a known bug affecting some macOS versions — downloading far more data than expected in the background.
- Safety tier
- Safe — User-owned and reversible — acting carries no real risk.
- Safe action
quit- Worst case
- A documented bug in several macOS versions caused the News background process to download tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of data per day, potentially pushing users over their internet data cap and incurring overage charges — all without opening the app.
Sources
- NewsToday2: What it is & How to Disable NewsToday2 on Mac – OS X Daily
- How to fix Apple News download bug on macOS Big Sur – 9to5Mac
- Apple News – Apple Wiki (Fandom)
- Complete guide to Apple News on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS – XDA Developers
Sourced by Anomalous — this is the published corpus entry that grounds the
News diagnosis card, not a language-model guess.
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