I need a way to permantently disable Reactions from my app, ideally the universe too

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jacobgorm
jacobgorm OP
Created Dec ’23
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So I've spent the last five years optimizing my video AI system so that it runs with less than 5% CPU while processing a 30fps video feed on a Macbook Pro M2, and everything is great, until Sonoma comes out, and I find myself consuming 40% CPU for the exact same workload.

So I fire up Instruments, and the "heaviest stack trace" (see screenshot) turns out to be Espresso doing some completely unasked-for and absolutely useless processing on my video frames. I turn off Reactions, but nothing helps - the CPU consumptions stays at 40%.

"Reactions" is nothing but a useless toy to please some WWDC keynote fanboys, I don't want it anywhere near my app or my users, and I especially do not want to take the blame for it pissing away the user's CPU cycles and battery. Now, how do I make it go away, for ever?

Best regards

Jacob

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Apple Staff, DTS Engineer
DTS Engineer OP
Apple
Jan ’24

Hello,

Please use Feedback Assistant to raise this issue with the appropriate engineering team. At the API level, there is no way for you to disable or opt out of the processing shown in that call-stack.

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jacobgorm
jacobgorm OP
Jan ’24

Here you go https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/13531490

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maggus83
maggus83 OP
Aug ’24

Hello @jacobgorm, did you find a way to disable it?

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michaellondon
michaellondon OP
Nov ’24

I also am finding this incredibly intrusive and it does not seem to have been fixed in Sequoia.

Below is my efficient video handling code in blue. Apple's unwanted processing in yellow. !

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molesmoke
molesmoke OP
1d

Oh wow, the battery life on a MacBook is absolutely terrible on video capture apps because of this. Did anyone find a way to disable it yet?

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molesmoke
molesmoke OP
16h

Unfortunately, even meddling with the relevant user plist files doesn't seem to be sufficient to turn it off...

group.com.apple.secure-control-center-preferences.av.plist

If the application's reactions-enabled and gestures-enabled-default are set to false, the high CPU usage from the gesture recognition is still incurred.

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Elderante
Elderante OP
14h

Causing major battery drain issues on my video capture apps too. How is this not fixed yet?

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KemotKaszlo
KemotKaszlo OP
8h

That's what I experience too, any camera app has issues like that now ...

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