Now let’s see how to turn off sleep mode on your Mac. Worry not, you can still stop your Mac from sleeping when the lid is closed, while downloading, or while watching a movie. In macOS 11 and macOS 12, Apple has replaced the Energy Saver system preference with Battery. But this will keep the display awake and you have to keep your MacBook lid open while carrying out an unattended task.īesides, the UI to customize the Energy Saver preferences has changed in macOS Big Sur or later. Another option (built-in) is to increase the timeout for automatically turning off the display. Thankfully, you can use a third-party app to prevent your Mac from going to sleep while downloading large files or when closed. However, macOS offers no setting to keep your Mac from sleeping while it’s on battery.
Though you can stop your Mac from going to sleep automatically when it’s plugged in. Putting Mac to sleep helps you conserve the battery life and wakes your Mac from sleep a lot faster than starting the system. That said, certain hindrances such as interrupted downloads can happen while a Mac is in sleep mode.
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You may notice also for example if you used iCloud for photos and iMessage etc that when you open your Mac again it’s all already updated with the latest photos (showing in library, not necessarily downloaded and iMessages.
I can leave a MacBook closed for a week and still have a good amount of power left when I open it again. But it’s all done in a very low power way so your battery does not get depleted by much. They also tend to keep Wi-Fi on for location services etc otherwise Find Your Mac would not work. Back in the day it was quite common for Macs to be turned on from their keyboards and now with wireless keyboards and most people just putting their computer to sleep, this retains the behavior if for example you were using the MacBook docked with a separate keyboard and mouse. So I believe this is because MacOS will keep Bluetooth running to check for input from a keyboard or mouse to wake up again. I haven’t used a Windows desktop in forever (have two Win 10 laptops though).