Cannot put Mac to sleep while wearing watch!

[eddjedi]

As you can imagine trying to search for "Apple Watch Sleep Mac" is returning loads of irrelevant results, so thought I'd ask here.

Surely I can't be the only person that has encountered this, but when I enable 'wake with Apple Watch' I cannot put my Mac to sleep. I want to use this 'feature' to unlock my Mac after it is already asleep, and that works fine, but if I select 'sleep' from the Apple menu on my Mac, 2 seconds later my watch wakes it up again!

I am running macOS 11.2.1 and watchOS 6.3 on a series 2. Surely Apple haven't made something with such a terrible design flaw?!

 

[schlupps]

not sure if this is related, but the pmset shell tool has an option called proximitywake. Dont know, how confident or familiar you are with your macs shell?



if your run the command "pmset -g" , it will display your macs current config:

sudo pmset -g

System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
Sleep On Power Button 1
autopoweroff 1
standbydelayhigh 86400
autopoweroffdelay 259200
proximitywake 0
standby 1
standbydelaylow 86400
ttyskeepawake 1
hibernatemode 0
powernap 0
gpuswitch 2
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
highstandbythreshold 50
displaysleep 20
womp 0
networkoversleep 0
sleep 1
halfdim 1
autorestart 0
disksleep 10


The man page for the pmset command shows:

proximitywake - On supported systems, this option controls system wake from sleep based on proximity of devices using same iCloud id. (value = 0/1)

If you run the mentioned command on your mac, does the line containing the proximitywake show a zero as well?


My mac is a late 2015 iMac .. it shows some oddities and wakes up at night for no reasons (at least from my point of view ) . But it allows me to put him to sleep, without waking up instantly again.

 

[schlupps]

to disable the proximitywake:

sudo pmset -a proximitywake 0

to enable proximitywake:

sudo pmset -a proximitywake 1

 

[eddjedi]

Thanks, here's what I get:

System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
lidwake 1
autopoweroff 1
standbydelayhigh 86400
autopoweroffdelay 28800
standbydelaylow 10800
standby 1
proximitywake 1
ttyskeepawake 1
hibernatemode 3
powernap 1
gpuswitch 2
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
highstandbythreshold 50
displaysleep 60
womp 1
networkoversleep 0
sleep 0 (sleep prevented by sharingd)
tcpkeepalive 1
halfdim 1
acwake 0
disksleep 10

 

[schlupps]

Timemachine backup available?
Not that i think, switching the proximitywake off would cause any issues or make it necessary to restore your Macbook.. just as a precaution, please allow me to ask again: Timemachine backup available? =)

IF available, then you could try disabling the proximitywake, restart your device and check, if it has any impact to the sleeping habits of your macbook. Or if your mac still wakes up, if your watch is in reach.

To disable the proximitywake (Machine will ask for your password):

sudo pmset -a proximitywake 0

if you cant see any progress, just enable it again with following command and you should be, where you started:

sudo pmset -a proximitywake 1

 

[jaymc]

Wow, never did consider this a problem since I have a MacBook Pro vice a Mac. Guess it's another check mark for keeping the MacBook Pro.

 

[eddjedi]

I do have Time Machine, but I'm a little wary of running terminal commands I don't understand so think I'll see if anyone has any other advice first. Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[schlupps]

np =)

also, an SMC reset could be worth trying.