#Mac insomniax Bluetooth#

The only bluetooth device I have connected is an Apple Magic Mouse. (Why? Was this confusing people? Couldn’t it have been left as an option, like the startup sound?) Also infuriating is that Apple has removed the ‘breathing’ power light feature on the Mac Studio (and new Minis) that visually indicates that the machine is asleep, separate from looking at the monitor.

Repeating the keyboard command usually does the trick the second time, but it’s annoying nonetheless. In both cases the screen will dim almost immediately, but sometimes after about five seconds (just long enough to walk away from the machine), the screen will light up and the machine is wide awake again.

To either sleep or simply to turn off the external monitor, I use keyboard shortcuts: Command-Option-Eject (sleep), or Control-Shift-Eject (turn off screen). I have a slightly different problem, which occurs across two different desktop Macs (a 2013 Mac Pro, and a new minimally-configured Mac Studio that replaced it).

I wish Joy and Sam of Ohanaware every success with this new app, and hope it ends my sinking feeling of dread when I’m asked why someone’s Mac notebook keeps flattening its battery overnight. If you develop in Xojo and don’t already use Ohanaware’s products, take a look at its front page. I have just downloaded my own copy, and will be reviewing it in depth here next week.

#Mac insomniax code#

Ohanaware has generously given readers of this blog an extra $5 off its launch promotion price: to take advantage of this, use the coupon code eclecticlight when buying your licence.

#Mac insomniax trial#

It’s now available from here, as a 14-day free trial if you prefer to try before buying. Sleep Aid is compatible with macOS 10.13.6 and later, and with both Intel and Apple silicon models.

Sleep Settings, which extends those provided in System Preferences.

The ability to disable Bluetooth during sleep, so preventing devices like headphones from waking the Mac.

Better Sleep Controller, which can disable some system services to help sleep start and be maintained.

Sleep Check, which reveals settings and apps preventing sleep.

Sleep Aid from Ohanaware looks to be everything you could possibly need to diagnose and fix an over-wakeful Mac whose insomnia keeps flattening its battery overnight.Īmong the tools provided in addition to its Sleep History chart are: I’m delighted to report a new app, available from today, to chart your Mac’s activity over the previous couple of weeks, highlighting when it wakes, so helping you discover why. Without trawling through thousands of log entries during the previous night, it’s very difficult to guess what has been causing this insomnia.

#Mac insomniax for mac#

While there are some instant answers, like magnetic fields from adjacent iPad cases and incompletely closed lids, which can account for Mac notebooks waking when they should be asleep, diagnosing the great majority has been almost impossible. This is particularly frustrating with new Apple silicon models, which should enjoy prolonged battery endurance, if only you can get them to stay asleep the whole night.

When their user opens them up in the morning ready for a day’s work, the battery is flat, requiring that day to be rescheduled around the availability of mains power. Lately, many Macs simply won’t stay asleep. Until fairly recently, the most common of those problems was Macs suffering a kernel panic when trying to wake up in many cases, the solution is frustratingly simple, as there was a bug in that model’s firmware, and only Apple could solve that. When answering questions from Mac users, those that I dread most concern sleep.