---
title: "My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One Hour - While Not is Use"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-mac-contacted-63-different-apple-owned-domains-in-one-hour---while-not-is-use-j1lgjjxru
source_url: https://appaddict.app/post/my-mac-contacted-63-different-apple-owned-domains-in-one-hour-while-not-is-use
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-06-12T13:02:17.932Z
updated: 2025-06-12T13:02:42.061Z
tags: ["apple", "privacy", "mac", "dns"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 20
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One Hour - While Not is Use

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 20 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

A Mac user discovered their M2 MacBook Air contacted 63 different Apple domains in one hour while idle, representing 25% of all DNS queries despite using NextDNS to block telemetry. The domains included services for push notifications, CloudKit, iTunes/App Store, location services, crash reports, and various Apple infrastructure components. Notably, an older 2019 Intel MacBook Pro with identical DNS settings only had 3% of queries going to Apple domains, suggesting newer Macs may have increased background communication with Apple services.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@jamiecarl** · 5 upvotes

> That's weird. I totally don't get anything like this on my Linux laptop. Hmmm..

**@thecookingsenpai** · 1 upvotes

> This is a common practice nowadays. That's one of the reasons a pihole or just a VPN with filtering is advised for everyone.

**@zamanshahed** · 0 upvotes

> They are always listening... 'Always'

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