What to do with the Mac that either won’t go to sleep at all, or keeps waking up and discharging its battery? It’s pmset or Sleep Aid.
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Discovering why a Mac wakes up when it should be asleep, and quietly flattens its battery overnight, has been almost impossible, until now.
Fed up with your M1 MBP always starting up, or waking from sleep, when you open its lid? How might you change that behaviour?
On Intel Macs, resetting the SMC was a universal panacea until the T2 came along. What can we do instead with an M1 Mac?
CTS scheduling and dispatch of background tasks has no user interface, and no controls. How can you tell that there’s a problem, and what to do about it?
If you power your Mac from a UPS with a USB connection, sleep may not be all it’s supposed to be.
Connecting external storage to the USB-C ports on an external display is a great idea until the display goes to sleep.
When you wake your laptop up in the morning, it’s clear it has been awake half the night. How to ensure it gets a proper night’s sleep.
Knowing the difference helps you work out what to do in response, and how to work out what went wrong.
Apple has just released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update, which it says addresses problems in some Macs when […]
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