In this guide, we will make you aware of the milod service which is running on your Mac and whether or not it is safe. There exists a plethora of services that are concurrently running in the background on your Mac. These services are required for the proper functioning of numerous systems and third-party apps. If one of them isn’t performing along the expected lines, then it will have a direct negative impact on its associated application.
With that said, it is also highly recommended that one should always keep a close watch on the services running in the backend, especially if you are among those set of users who tend to download applications and files from third-party sites. This is because there is always a risk of one or the other type of malicious file, including the likes of viruses and malware, sneaking into the system along with those programs.
One such issue that has been prelevant for the past few months and hasn’t been effectively addressed is the presence of the milod service on Mac. As far as its location is concerned, it can be found across
~/Library/Daemon Containers/F68D34A1-3EBA-4C03-B7FD-27B10C2BADE6/Data/com.apple.milod/milo.db-wal. OR /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX15.0.sdk/usr/share/man/man8/milod.8
One thing to note is that the service also seems to be present in the latest macOS Sequoia and is absent from the previous iterations of the OS. Making matters worse is the absence of any worthwhile information about this service across the web, thereby further cementing the doubts of many as to whether this is actually a malicious program that has somehow managed to creep into their OS. So is that really the case? Let’s find out.
What is Milod Service on Mac
The Milod service on Mac is related to Bluetooth and is active when a Bluetooth device is connected to your Mac. So how did we come to this conclusion? Well, we have a HomePod at our home, and going into the Console and filtering by process:milod, we could see the following entry:
CBDiscovery CLMiLoLeeching: Device found: CBDevice XXXXXXXXX-E040-5716-550B-XXXXXXXXX, BDA XXXXXXXXX, Nm 'Living Room', Md AudioAccessory1,1, IDS XXXXXXXXX-130D-43F0-898A-XXXXXXXXX, AcID [email protected], stID CC830B4F-130D-43F0-898A-XXXXXXXXX, DsFl 0x80040 < NearbyInfo NearbyAction >, DvF 0x40000000300 < Family SharedHome Connectable >, RSSI -55, Ch 37, AdTsMC <XXXXXXXXX>, AMfD <4c 00 0f 05 90 00 c5 31 f2 10 02 03 04>, nbAF 0x90 < DeviceClose HasAuthTag >, nbIF 0x100 < WiFiP2P >, CF 0x80200000000 < RSSI Attributes > milod com.apple.bluetooth
As you can see from above, the likes of Living Room, Family Shared Home Connectable. and most importantly, milod com.apple.bluetooth, suggests that it is indeed a Bluetooth service. Well, milod might even stand for the micro-location daemon. All in all, it seems to be a system service rather than a third-party one. So in that case, you might keep it running in the background, or else your Bluetooth devices might get disconnected.
Is Milod Service Safe?
So on that note, we round off this guide by stating that milod is a Bluetooth service on Mac and seems to be completely safe. It first came into existence with the fifteenth iteration of the OS aka Sequoia and shouldn’t be a cause of any concern to the end users. With that said, If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
