Services Using com.apple.geod

macos

I blocked the com.apple.geod process with my software firewall but after 2 days of non-stop 1 second attempts I just pkill'ed it.

I want to know what services are using this so I can disable them from running com.apple.geod if possible.

Edit: Scratch the pkill. That didn't keep it away for long.

Solution 1:

Making an exhaustive list of all processes that call a specific API or process would be technically challenging even for one single release point of MacOS. You would either need access to the source code of all of MacOS and every single app - both first party and third party - or you would need to debug/reverse engineer all processes as they run and expose those calls.

The application Little Snitch does that for the network stack - so you might have better luck just blocking network access to Apple servers rather than trying to block the calls to the service locally.

Even if you were to process all the geo location aspects on developer.apple.com - it's widely used - far greater than just the Core Location API - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation.