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Family process is often non responsive many faults in Console.app

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The Family process (/System/Library/CoreServices/Family.app/Contents/MacOS/Family) is hanging randomly on macOS. When this happens Screen Time settings fail to sync from iPhone to iMac, Find My struggles to locate devices, and cpu begins to overheat. I have been on the phone and screen shared with Apple Tier 1 with no resolution. There are multiple questions on Apple community, reddit, and other forums trying to resolve this issue. AFAIK none have been successful. One suggestion was adding /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IMCore.framework/imagent.app as an Allow rule in Network Firewall ( OR even just turning off the Firewall in Network settings ) to test if that solved this issue. So far (after 12 hours of monitoring Activity Monitor) it seems to have prevented the Family binary getting stuck in a (Non Responsive) state but hundreds of errors in Console.app suggests the issue is still present. With Firewall off I see hundreds of console faults for the Family process:
43315	fault	12:26:52.972217-0500	Family	CoreData: Unable to create token NSXPCConnection.  NSXPCStoreServerEndpointFactory 0x7f8e89122f10 -newEndpoint returned nil
Other curious entries:
1174	fault	12:29:47.235445-0500	UIKitSystem	container_query_get_single_result: client is not entitled
1113	fault	12:34:14.299396-0500	imagent	Couldn't write values for keys (
    CheckSensitivePhotosAnalytics
) in CFPrefsPlistSource (Domain: com.apple.messages.commsafety, User: kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, ByHost: No, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: No): setting these preferences requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access
164	fault	12:34:22.125092-0500	apsd	Peer connection [pid=1051] lacks APSConnectionInitiateEntitlement
46757	fault	12:34:30.890039-0500	com.apple.WebKit.WebContent	checkinWithServer Failed bootstrap_lookup2 for name of coreservicesd, kern_return_t=#1100/0x44c Permission denied name=com.apple.CoreServices.coreservicesd
Why is this process hanging? enter image description here
Asked by John (1248 rep)
Sep 4, 2024, 05:39 PM
Last activity: Sep 10, 2024, 06:36 PM