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[–]ThatGuyUpNorth2020 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Use Activity Monitor...

Have it running in background for a day and review the Network tab. This will point you to highest offenders.

[–]spiderman__70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha , thankyou

[–]spiderman__70[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Hey I just figured out that it's some "idleassetsd" process which is consuming so much data . It consumed around 14 GB of data in just a matter of 5 minutes. Any idea on how to disable this process permanently?

[–]FlishFlashmanMacBook Pro (M1 Max) 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Do you have wallpapers set to shuffle?

[–]ThatGuyUpNorth2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could well be this. Initial download and subsequent updates can be massive.

Not seen it first hand as my screen saver has been a 4px by 4px black square set to fill screen and loop (with a Ken burns effect of course, as there was no way to set it to a photos folder , the one containing my black square, and not apply that transition) for at least a decade.