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Often when I am using XCode (and sometimes other apps) the tccd process will take up lots of CPU or just get stuck. I find myself more and more having to kill that process (now it happens multiple times a day). It always seems to immediately re-start the process as soon as it is killed.

I am wondering if there is a way to fix it so that it does not break all the time.

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I found this blog post titled: Fix TCCD process consuming high CPU usage when run Xcode.

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Using Xcode 8 is really a frustrating experience. When compile swift source files or write code in Sierra(the latest macOS), Xcode frequently freeze. It's nuking productivity. After a long time of searching, I found this is caused by a process named tccd which take up to 70% of CPU usage. What is tccd? It seems to be a access controller that manage the permission to user's contacts. So the solution is quite easy, go to

System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy → Contacts

uncheck Xcode and restart it. Then, it works again.

So it would seem, simply disabling contacts will disable tccd thereby dropping the high CPU load.

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    This is a lot bigger of an issue on Mojave and seems to be comprehensive vs limited to Contacts now. There seems to be a bug in what Apple has done since perhaps 10.14.2... – ylluminate Feb 18 '19 at 15:36
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    I just had a similar issue with Qt Creator. Every time application is built and run, the system freezes for around 5 to 10 seconds. Removing Qt Creator permission in Accessibility fixes the issue. – Luca Carlon Apr 07 '20 at 13:06