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This is the one biggest thing I loved Apple hardware for over Windows laptops.
> In my case, the “Wake for maintenance” option was disabled, and Sleep Aid helpfully showed in the settings interface that this could lead to frequent wake up events. Did author mean to write "option was enabled" instead?
This used to happen to my MacBook Pro, although it was a non Apple Silicon one. The issue was that I had changed the DHCP lease time on my router from the default to a really low value. I believe I had set it to 15 minutes. What I believe was happening was the MBP was waking up to renew its IP address every 15 minutes and by the time it went to sleep again, it was probably waking back up to repeat the process. Changi…
What were you hoping to achieve by doing that?
Imagine people who are not technical buying a new mac because of this...
Back in my day they had a physical power switch that killed the mains to the power supply. Why we even had to format our 40mb hard drive and reimagine the box once a week, both way… in the snow! And we liked it that way! Kids these days!
Apple's power management isn't as great as everyone claims. I've an older MacBook Air with a severe battery drain problem. The battery will last maybe a day or two when SHUT DOWN (not sleep) before being fully drained and refuses to power on. It's done this since day one. I tried resetting everything possible which could be reset and nothing helped. Allegedly the problem is related to a Bluetooth radio which does not…
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102888
Get a semi-new Apple laptop and then let us know how terrible the power management is.
https://support.apple.com/en-mn/guide/mac-help/mh40774/mac This seems to be available as a first party config option
Edit 2: My bad, I assumed power nap == "wake for network access". This no longer seems to be an option in macOS 26. Mine's set to "Only on Power Adapter", which makes sense. Edit: On an M4 MacBook Air running macOS 26 DB
https://support.apple.com/en-mn/guide/mac-help/mh40774/15.0/...
Turn Power Nap on or off for a Mac desktop computer On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Energy in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Turn on Enable Power Nap. Note: This option is only available on Intel-based Mac computers.
You can see (and change) the settings via Terminal, 'pmset -g' will show the current options.
This used to happen to my MacBook Pro, although it was a non Apple Silicon one. The issue was that I had changed the DHCP lease time on my router from the default to a really low value. I believe I had set it to 15 minutes. What I believe was happening was the MBP was waking up to renew its IP address every 15 minutes and by the time it went to sleep again, it was probably waking back up to repeat the process. Changi…
That is so weird. How much mAh can a single “wake and renew lease” possibly take? Like it has to be milliamp-milliseconds (mAmS?). I mean my phone is chattering with the cell network probably all the time even in a fairly deep sleep mode. The laptop is lighting up the WiFi stack to send and receive (and process) like a few packets? Like you said though, it’s pre Apple silicon so who really knows! Maybe it decided to…
In my case, I've discovered that Devonthink (document/notes management app) is responsible. I've been meaning to file a bug report about it.
I'm surprised that Apple's power management doesn't have an alert for this. Surely an app that causes my Mac to become glowing hot while sitting in my backpack, not to mention slowly running out of battery, is a pretty important thing to intercept. Meanwhile, I keep being asked if Chrome should be allowed to find devices on my network, which doesn't seem nearly as important.
> In my case, the “Wake for maintenance” option was disabled, and Sleep Aid helpfully showed in the settings interface that this could lead to frequent wake up events. Did author mean to write "option was enabled" instead?