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# ProcessInfo.ThermalState.fair

The thermal state is slightly elevated.

```
case fair
```

## Discussion

The system takes steps to reduce thermal state, like running fans and stopping background services that aren’t doing work immediately needed by the user.

Reduce or defer background work, like prefetching content over the network or updating database indexes.

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