New M4 mini: LED not breathing.

[Homy]

I just purchased Mini M4 and it seems it is not sleeping even if I manually put it into the sleep mode. Screen is off but thats it. When I wake it up in the morning my all ssh sessions are still alive:/ I encounter several "disk was not ejected properly" messages as I suspect disks go to sleep, but mini is not:/ Poor implementation from Apple. If I put mac to sleep, I want it to sleep and not do something in the background:/

Have you turned off “Wake for network access.”? Also you say you just bought the Mac. It could be Spotlight indexing keeping it awake. "Spotlight indexing: If Spotlight is indexing your hard disk, your Mac won’t go to sleep."

If your Mac sleeps or wakes unexpectedly

Check your sleep settings, sharing settings, system activity, and other possible causes.

support.apple.com

 

[opeter]

I found this information on Apple forums:

A flashing/blinking SIL, is now used to indicate a hardware issue, see > Mac computer status indicator light behavior - Apple Support

 

[rimvydukas]

Have you turned off “Wake for network access.”? Also you say you just bought the Mac. It could be Spotlight indexing keeping it awake. "Spotlight indexing: If Spotlight is indexing your hard disk, your Mac won’t go to sleep."

If your Mac sleeps or wakes unexpectedly

Check your sleep settings, sharing settings, system activity, and other possible causes.

support.apple.com

My saying "just bought" simply means one month ago Option you are mentioning is turned off for sure. I've turned off all I could with pmset - still nothing. Now I did additional hacks with scheduled PM events and powerd, will look how this will look like. There are plenty of scheduled PM events in the latest version of macos.

I'm very mad on Apple because of these things. I know that Apple's silicon is efficient, but if I want my mac to be in the sleep mode - I do not want to see any wakeups for sure. My old intel macbook with high sierra could be in sleep mode about one month with some battery left and all of these modern Apple silicons last three days at max:/ And now, if I want to avoid huge battery drain - I need to do complete shutdown:/