Mac Studio is not going into sleep mode

[gabo864]

Hey everyone,

I have a Mac Studio with two monitors. I have an LG monitor and the Studio Display. Whenever I lock my computer I select the "sleep" option and the screens turn off and back on right away. It takes several tries before the Mac Studio goes into sleep mode. Sometimes it goes into sleep mode, but after a while when I get back I see the screen is on and stays on for hours. What could be causing this? Thanks,

 

[haralds]

Same here. I have given up on fighting this. It would be nice if they had indicators as in the old days - a blinking white power light.
Try turning off wake on network.

 

[wdhpgx]

From what I've read, with the recent OS versions and the m1 processor, getting a mac to reliably stay asleep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. I ended up using Sleep Aid:

Sleep Aid - View a Mac's sleeping habits, solve issues, improve battery life, stop sniffers

Sleep Aid is designed to reveal details on how a Mac sleeps. This is useful to see what's going on, and to help troubleshoot why a Mac won't go to sleep (even with lid closed), or why it keeps waking in the middle of the night. Sleep Aid includes many Apple sleep settings, as well as some...

ohanaware.com

which seems to help a lot; I feel like I have a lot more control and visibility into it.

Also see other thread about sleeping:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-studio-m1-max-is-it-really-asleep.2350739/

 

[designerdave72]

I had the same issue using the sleep in the menu bar and found creating a shortcut to sleep as a moderate solution.

See if it works - System Preferences > Keyboard under the tab Shortcuts and select App Shortcuts in the left column, then click the plus button. In the dialog box use Sleep for the "Menu Title" field and select a free shortcut. You will then find it is listed under the  menu. It does still wake sometimes after immediate sleep but hitting the key is faster. I’ve also found it will only go to sleep and stay asleep if I’m in an Apple application such mail, music or desktop.

 

[webbga]

When I use the Sleep under the Apple menu my system often will pop right back up. I have gotten used to pressing the Touch ID button on my keyboard with a finger other than the one I use to wake it, and then the esc key. That seems to work better.

 

[Wokis]

Since I recently had something similar with my MBA.. off-shoot chance it could be related.

Bluetooth-devices. If you have a corded/dongled mouse/keyboard at least available for troubleshooting, try turning off bluetooth altogether and see if the problem persists.

Regardless, get this into the terminal and wait for the output. It will tell you why it woke up!
pmset -g log | grep -i "wake from"

 

[photoj2754]

Hey everyone,

I have a Mac Studio with two monitors. I have an LG monitor and the Studio Display. Whenever I lock my computer I select the "sleep" option and the screens turn off and back on right away. It takes several tries before the Mac Studio goes into sleep mode. Sometimes it goes into sleep mode, but after a while when I get back I see the screen is on and stays on for hours. What could be causing this? Thanks,

I've had this problem since I bought my Studio and nothing seems to help. Unplugged everything from Studio then into the Display and back again one connection at a time and it does the same thing. Sometimes it works on the first try sometimes it takes up to 10 tries to get it to sleep and not continue To wake up instantly. Searched everywhere even started a thread in this forum thread and nothing works. Never had this problem with my 27” iMac. Even went to and Apple Store and asked them and they said call Apple support when it happens. Very frustrating.

 

[pshufd]

My Studio is also the home NAS so it may wake up if some other computer or mobile device pings it. Normally the keyboard lights up though the monitors remain sleeping. I'm pretty sure that I have wake on network access turned on.

 

[haralds]

Both Mac Studio and M1 MacBook Pro are insomniacs.

 

[Felix Cortez]

Same here. I have a Mac Studio and 3x monitors and it won't stay asleep. I'll note though, that this also happened with my 2018 Mac Mini. It may be a Ventura thing given the different hardware configurations.

 

[Felix Cortez]

From what I've read, with the recent OS versions and the m1 processor, getting a mac to reliably stay asleep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. I ended up using Sleep Aid:

Sleep Aid - View a Mac's sleeping habits, solve issues, improve battery life, stop sniffers

Sleep Aid is designed to reveal details on how a Mac sleeps. This is useful to see what's going on, and to help troubleshoot why a Mac won't go to sleep (even with lid closed), or why it keeps waking in the middle of the night. Sleep Aid includes many Apple sleep settings, as well as some...

ohanaware.com

which seems to help a lot; I feel like I have a lot more control and visibility into it.

Also see other thread about sleeping:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-studio-m1-max-is-it-really-asleep.2350739/

@wdhpgx Thanks for the app suggestion. It helps a lot for gaining insight into root causes. It seems at least half my culprit is my Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed wireless mouse. I tried turning it off last night but it still was active. It connects to my Mac Studio via a 2.4 GHz USB receiver. I just disabled 'Wake for Maintenance' per the Sleep Aid App's suggestion, so we'll see. The investigation continues.

 

[brandair]

Definitely was the root cause for my studio sleep problem with MacOS Monterey - a generic mini USB mouse from China, which would the disrupt sleep every 5 seconds or so.

 

[DaveFlash]

it's been reported on apple developer forums, it's indeed an issues with Ventura 13.4 and maybe earlier, also the bug is still present in the 13.5 betas: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/730112

 

[photoj2754]

I had the same issue using the sleep in the menu bar and found creating a shortcut to sleep as a moderate solution.

See if it works - System Preferences > Keyboard under the tab Shortcuts and select App Shortcuts in the left column, then click the plus button. In the dialog box use Sleep for the "Menu Title" field and select a free shortcut. You will then find it is listed under the  menu. It does still wake sometimes after immediate sleep but hitting the key is faster. I’ve also found it will only go to sleep and stay asleep if I’m in an Apple application such mail, music or desktop.

Tried this when you first suggested it and it was very hit and miss, more miss. Went to another keyboard that I had and really liked before buying my Studio and it was horrible. So went back to my previous keyboard that I set up with your shortcut suggestion and it had been working like a charm. F13 pushed and for more than two weeks it has been going to sleep perfectly and only woke quickly twice in that time. Thanks for making this problem go away as best it can.

 

[designerdave72]

Tried this when you first suggested it and it was very hit and miss, more miss. Went to another keyboard that I had and really liked before buying my Studio and it was horrible. So went back to my previous keyboard that I set up with your shortcut suggestion and it had been working like a charm. F13 pushed and for more than two weeks it has been going to sleep perfectly and only woke quickly twice in that time. Thanks for making this problem go away as best it can.

No problem, glad it helps. I think there are loads of issues with shoddy macOS as well as including this issue and the display settings. Sadly, macOS 14 won’t be any better.

 

[Skeletor322]

I have to hold my corded usb mouse still until the fans turn off, in order for my studio to go to sleep. Otherwise it will turn on the monitor again and not go to sleep.

 

[brandair]

Common sense that user interaction will disable sleep mode. That's not a bug but expected behavior.

I have to hold my corded usb mouse still until the fans turn off, in order for my studio to go to sleep. Otherwise it will turn on the monitor again and not go to sleep.

 

[kattam]

@wdhpgx Thanks for the app suggestion. It helps a lot for gaining insight into root causes. It seems at least half my culprit is my Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed wireless mouse. I tried turning it off last night but it still was active. It connects to my Mac Studio via a 2.4 GHz USB receiver. I just disabled 'Wake for Maintenance' per the Sleep Aid App's suggestion, so we'll see. The investigation continues.


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I‘d be interested to know how things are going. Any news?

 

[Shazaam!]

The only way that I can get my Studio to properly sleep is to use the Apple Menu to log myself out and then select Sleep (from the Menu upper right). This tells me that non-Apple software is interfering with sleep — but I haven't been able to isolate what app is doing it. I can tell when the Studio is sleeping when my external SSDs show that they're disconnected. I wish they'd bring back the pulsing LED during sleep.

 

[splifingate]

I wish they'd bring back the pulsing LED during sleep.

*looks-over to my MP5,1's pulsing led*

Yeah; that level of communication paints a thousand pictures (or, does not, in this case!).

 

[CC88]

From what I've read, with the recent OS versions and the m1 processor, getting a mac to reliably stay asleep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. I ended up using Sleep Aid:

Sleep Aid - View a Mac's sleeping habits, solve issues, improve battery life, stop sniffers

Sleep Aid is designed to reveal details on how a Mac sleeps. This is useful to see what's going on, and to help troubleshoot why a Mac won't go to sleep (even with lid closed), or why it keeps waking in the middle of the night. Sleep Aid includes many Apple sleep settings, as well as some...

ohanaware.com

which seems to help a lot; I feel like I have a lot more control and visibility into it.

Also see other thread about sleeping:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-studio-m1-max-is-it-really-asleep.2350739/

Wanna thank you so much... Sleep Aid saved my life... Now my mac studio stay sleep all the time and I let it in sleep state for hours, then come back and use it without shutdown it.

Thanks a lot to your post and to Sleep Aid developer.

 

[kattam]

From what I've read, with the recent OS versions and the m1 processor, getting a mac to reliably stay asleep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. I ended up using Sleep Aid:

Sleep Aid - View a Mac's sleeping habits, solve issues, improve battery life, stop sniffers

Sleep Aid is designed to reveal details on how a Mac sleeps. This is useful to see what's going on, and to help troubleshoot why a Mac won't go to sleep (even with lid closed), or why it keeps waking in the middle of the night. Sleep Aid includes many Apple sleep settings, as well as some...

ohanaware.com

which seems to help a lot; I feel like I have a lot more control and visibility into it.

Also see other thread about sleeping:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-studio-m1-max-is-it-really-asleep.2350739/

Thanks for this recommendation.
I've tried this as well and played a little bit around with my settings.

When I disabled "Wake for maintenance" the tasks running while in sleep were significantly lower.
Just to test around I've enabled "Wake for maintenance" last night to see what the difference is. In both instances I had disabled Wi-Fi during sleep.

I had long insomnia sessions (one lasting 15 min, one lasting 1 hour) which was caused by a Background Task "com.apple.corespotlight.knowledge". Another one with 26 min was a Performance report "signpost_reporter_activity".

I will disable "Wake for maintenance" again.

 

[th0masp]

Can you get your machines to sleep by logging in remotely via ssh and executing 'pmset sleepnow' on the command line?
This works on my (Intel) Macs when everything else seems to fail (with Wake on LAN and Power Nap turned off).