[andreasley]

Control Center is an overlay that is only shown when the appropriate icon in the menu bar is clicked. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchl50f94f8f/13.0/m...

[olliej]

Control center is responsible for drawing a bunch of the ui on the top right of the menu bar, things like the clock (many comments here seem to be saying this is related to showing seconds), Wi-Fi, sound settings, etc.

It also shows the annoying overlay bit when you accidentally open it :D

[andreasley]

Indeed! When "Display the time with seconds" is enabled for the menu bar clock, Control Center sits at 0.8% CPU activity instead of 0.0% on my Mac.

[olliej]

I think part of the confusion is that there's the feature "Control Center" and the process controlcenter so you would reasonably think it's only involved in the marketing feature's UI.

[coldtea]

Couldn't it render on demand (on click)?

Or when the mouse starts entering the target before the click at least?

[kennywinker]

It could. That’s the point