How to disable 'auto turn on by pressing any key' feature?

[airlied]

I want to keep auto turn on when lid opens enabled, but I think pressing any key (even trackpad) could boot up the machine is stupid.

Will I be able to just turn this off without turning off the whole 'lid open' thing?

I just don't understand what apple thinks these days. If we want it to be on we can press power button, we are not moron.

Thanks.

 

[upsguy27]

I would love to be able to disable this "feature" as well!

 

[shavou]

Me too!!

 

[egg_hodi]

I want to disable "turn on when lid opens" function all together, sometimes I just want to clean the display... Anyone ?

 

[SDColorado]

Returned mine so I can’t try it, but this might work...

http://osxdaily.com/2017/01/19/disable-boot-on-open-lid-macbook-pro/

 

[jerryk]

I want to disable "turn on when lid opens" function all together, sometimes I just want to clean the display... Anyone ?

When it is open, shut it down. Then clean the display.

 

[airlied]

When it is open, shut it down. Then clean the display.

what a pain in the ass! Apple really think we don’t know where the power button is.

 

[Zadok Kin]

what a pain in the ass! Apple really think we don’t know where the power button is.

Power buttons, what a pain, why on earth would we want to have some sort of button that makes the device "not on". Lets get rid of these stupid power button things and make sure they are always working no matter what.

(Seriously, most people don't need a special button that makes the device "not on")

 

[SDColorado]

Power buttons, what a pain, why on earth would we want to have some sort of button that makes the device "not on". Lets get rid of these stupid power button things and make sure they are always working no matter what.

(Seriously, most people don't need a special button that makes the device "not on")

I could be wrong, but I don’t think his problem was with the Power Button. I think it was with Apples assumption that every time you open the lid you want the machine to power on, rather than giving the user the option to simply push the power button if turning it on was what you wanted to do.

Granted, Apple probably isn’t wrong most of the time. You probably do want it to power on. But nothing wrong with giving the user the option to configure that behavior

 

[patwithamac]

Sadly, it's my understanding that there is no way to prevent booting/waking by merely pressing a key, or touching the trackpad. It seems there is no way to configure that.
Indeed, I asked a similar question here not long ago.

But...
I can confirm that this turns off booting (and waking) my MBP when merely I open the lid;

sudo nvram AutoBoot=%00
sudo reboot

I can also confirm that this turns off waking when [re]connecting the AC adapter;

sudo pmset -a acwake 0
sudo reboot

 

[airlied]

I could be wrong, but I don’t think his problem was with the Power Button. I think it was with Apples assumption that every time you open the lid you want the machine to power on, rather than giving the user the option to simply push the power button if turning it on was what you wanted to do.

Granted, Apple probably isn’t wrong most of the time. You probably do want it to power on. But nothing wrong with giving the user the option to configure that behavior

you understand what i mean correctly.

 

[airlied]

Sadly, it's my understanding that there is no way to prevent booting/waking by merely pressing a key, or touching the trackpad. It seems there is no way to configure that.
Indeed, I asked a similar question here not long ago.

But...
I can confirm that this turns off booting (and waking) my MBP when merely I open the lid;

sudo nvram AutoBoot=%00
sudo reboot

I can also confirm that this turns off waking when [re]connecting the AC adapter;

sudo pmset -a acwake 0
sudo reboot

Thanks!

So sudo pmset -a acwake 0 works in clamshell mode as well?

 

[patwithamac]

Thanks!

So sudo pmset -a acwake 0 works in clamshell mode as well?

It should.
But, I haven't tried it. So, can't confirm that.

 

[clarios]

Anyone interested in getting Apple to change this "feature", allowing the user to enable or disable it, look at:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mbp-2018-turns-on-when-any-key-pressed.2131668/

In particular, post #19 (tells where/how to contact Apple for this), and, if so desired, post #46 with a slight update/correction to post #19

 

[Treyp75]

what a pain in the ass! Apple really think we don’t know where the power button is.

THAT! Exactly! I submitted a feature request for that... but I'm pretty sure it'll just go into file 13. Same as any others...