Do I need to shut down my Mac every night?
What are the advantages of putting a Mac to sleep rather than shutting it down? We explain what each method has to offer
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How often do you restart macOS?
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Do I need to shut down my Mac every night?
What are the advantages of putting a Mac to sleep rather than shutting it down? We explain what each method has to offer
I find that article pretty useless. Amateurish talk about how RAM "clogs up" over time, and how you should restart, and "your mac will thank you for it". So much misinformation these days, due to people relaying what they've read online by other people who don't know what they're talking about.
When I was on Xfinity I restarted everyday; I was using fully update 2013 iMac, 2017 iMac and a M2 Mac Studio. If I did not the world crashed because of issues with network. Now I am on Google Fiber at 8gigs. Now I never need to do a restart. Love Google fiber for where I live.
I'd say I restart my 16" M1Pro MBP every ~3 weeks; and do a full shut down maybe every ~8 weeks, for any number of reasons.
So far since receiving my M3 a couple of weeks ago, I have not shut down at the end of the day as part of regular routine and will not be doing so. I Have done restarts because of installing stuff, updating, experimenting, testing sleep and home sharing. Now that Im pretty done with that stuff, I don't even sleep it at all. Just leave it on since it only draws less than 5W idle and I want Home Sharing ready to go in my home network for all users, even guest. So going forward, probably will not be doing restarts often like my old iMac. Maybe rarely now.
Brilliant. So Turn Display Off is putting the machine to Sleep?Take a look here. My work M2 Mac is off right now so I had to Google it.
Sleep settings in Sonoma OS
I just did the hunt myself, which is how I found this thread. I think what you're looking for is actually with the Lock Screen settings. It's split into two setttings, neither of which contain the word "sleep": "Turn display off on xxx when inactive", where xxx is either "battery" or "power...forums.macrumors.com
Near as I can tell the answer to that is yes.
Sorry I can't be more definitive, but MacOS Ventura and Sonoma are new to me. I've only been at it since late November when work issued a new Mac to me. The old one was running High Sierra and my own Macs are Mojave and Catalina.
If it says anything though, these settings in the Lockscreen are what I had to change in order to keep my work Mac from sleeping with the lid closed (I use it in clamshell mode).
I use Vray Software is bug on macOS.
Memory leaks and lag when first time render and software not return memory to system
and not closing app when want to quit app.
I had to restart to fix the problem.
Memory leaks and lag when first time render and software not return memory to system
and not closing app when want to quit app.
I had to restart to fix the problem.