macOS System Settings
Stop apps running in the background in macOS Ventura
New features in System Settings allow you to see, enable and disable apps that run in the background
• App credit: Apple Inc
Search for “background” to see apps that load and run when you start your Mac
Some apps automatically run tasks in the background on the Mac, and before macOS Ventura, it was not obvious which apps did this and how to stop them. Although you could look at Login Items in the old System Preferences, it rarely showed anything.