How do I turn this off?

[9valkyrie]

So, I close the lid on my M2 Air, and it doesn't go to sleep. I'm not using a power adapter, strictly battery. Nothing I do causes the M2 to sleep. The battery drains like it's awake and my router states that my M2 is actively connected to the network (I'm thinking about doing a packet capture too). Also, when I open the lid it's already at the login screen before I can even get it part way open. This only started with the new macOS 15 update. Any ideas on how to fix this?

 

[Isamilis]

Have you tried, create a new user and see is the problem remains?

 

[ChrisA]

Nothing I do causes the M2 to sleep.

You don't say what you did to try to address this, so I will start with the most basic. Did you look at Settings--> Screen and Lock?

 

[Lioness~]

Restart the Mac, it usually reset strange things.

If the problems hapoens again, I would definitely make a bigger effort.

 

[krspkbl]

even if it were sleeping it'll still be connected to wifi.

1. restart it - might sort out any strange behaviour

2. clean install MacOS - if it's a stubborn software bug

3. take it to Apple - because it's probably faulty

 

[NeonIbis]

I had an Intel MBA that did this - perhaps a totally different problem, but I never really solved it so my workaround was to turn Wifi off at night to minimise the drain.