Big Sur 11.1 and iMac Pro. I am on a slow (8Mbps) internet connection and the newsd program is consistently eating up more than 10% of that. I assume it's related to Apple News but can't find any documentation. Does anyone else see 1Mbs constant downloading from newsd? I base that info on an iStat Menus readout–and the fact that killing newsd in Activity Monitor instantly brings faster internet to all other apps.
Newsd eating the limited bandwidth
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Best Answer
Yes, I too see an incredible amount of data usage from newsd. In my case, around 28GB was downloaded in 24 hours.
I’ve opened a ticket with Apple Support.