Putting Mac or Display to sleep

[Silly John Fatty]

I use a new Mac Mini with the Apple Studio Display, and I set one of the corners of the display to put the display to sleep.

Every time I put the mouse in that corner, the display quickly turns on again, I put the mouse in the corner again, and then it works.

First I thought the new OS may be very sensible. I've had High Sierra before and I've had this corner set up for ages, probably for decades, and it has always worked.

And now recently I was at the login screen and wanted to put the Mac to sleep. This time I clicked on "Sleep", it went to sleep for a second and woke up again, and so I clicked again, and then it worked. So exactly the same thing.

So it's not a mouse issue I think. Ventura is so incredibly glitchy. Does anyone else have this?

 

[savjam]

I have the same problem. If it doesn't stay asleep I shut down the computer to prevent screen burnin or close all applications and then put it to sleep. Would be great to hear other responses on the issue.

 

[HDFan]

Check application(s) preventing sleep in Activity Monitor:

 

[Silly John Fatty]

Check application(s) preventing sleep in Activity Monitor:

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I don't think it's a case of it-can't-go-to-sleep-because-something-is-preventing-it, it rather feels like I-moved-the-mouse-so-the-display-turned-on-again.

It's more that type of thing. And the corner setting also doesn't put the Mac to sleep, but only the display.

Now I can't even check activity monitor if I wanted to, because the Mac stopped recognising my wired Apple keyboard. I can't login therefore.

This new Mac Mini has a lot of issues. Not sure if they're software or hardware related. It was a refurbished model, maybe it's a faulty model. I have to contact Apple.

 

[haralds]

I have also found the Display Sleep corner to be touchy. No solution.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

I have also found the Display Sleep corner to be touchy. No solution.

I guess it's Ventura then … it's full of glitches imo.

 

[HDFan]

I have also found the Display Sleep corner to be touchy.

Works fine for me.

 

[thebart]

Can you try binding to a keyboard shortcut

 

[dmt43]

Check application(s) preventing sleep in Activity Monitor:

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I had no idea this could be the cause of my Macbook not going into sleep mode!!! When i first checked activity monitor, only WindowsServer was preventing sleep. Then several other apps popped up. Up until the Sept update, I was putting my Macbook to sleep with no issues! I guess I have to check Activity Monitor now when it doesn’t work. I am new to Mac, lifelong Windows user. I am a little concerned about quitting WindowsServer to put my Macbook to sleep, any issues with that? Or any other app?? It shouldn’t be, bc I need to put the machine to sleep and I don’t think any app should be preventing that!!! But, oh well, I‘d appreciate any feedback. Donna

 

[kboller07]

I had the same issue and it was a Ventura bug. I moved on to the Sonoma beta and the hot corner puts the display to sleep without immediately turning back on.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

I updated to the latest version of Ventura (13.6), and I'm still having this issue. Does anyone have a fix for this? I don't want to upgrade to Sonoma yet.

I also have this issue if I go to the Apple menu and select "Sleep". It would turn off the display for a second and immediately turn it on again, without putting the Mac to sleep. Sometimes I'd have to click on "Sleep" multiple times before it would work.

Very annoying and cheap feeling for such an expensive setup. Display was almost 2000 € and Mac nearly 4000 €. Ridiculous.

 

[dmt43]

I am still on Ventura. I check Activity Monitor to see which apps are preventing sleep (you have to right click on the column header and add it if it’s not there). Once AM is open, let it run for a couple seconds, most apps will pop up as preventing sleep and then go away. Usually, two stay in that mode: powerd and WindowServer.

I quit powerd and then it goes to sleep. (I had read something about WindowServer being more problematic to quit). If any other app stays in ’preventing sleep’ i quit that too and then go to the Apple menu to select “Sleep”. I don’t know why it works with WindowServer still preventing sleep, but it seems to work well enough, all the time.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

I am still on Ventura. I check Activity Monitor to see which apps are preventing sleep (you have to right click on the column header and add it if it’s not there). Once AM is open, let it run for a couple seconds, most apps will pop up as preventing sleep and then go away. Usually, two stay in that mode: powerd and WindowServer.

I quit powerd and then it goes to sleep. (I had read something about WindowServer being more problematic to quit). If any other app stays in ’preventing sleep’ i quit that too and then go to the Apple menu to select “Sleep”. I don’t know why it works with WindowServer still preventing sleep, but it seems to work well enough, all the time.

It seems like it's not a case of sleep prevention in my case, sadly. I don't even really have anything on this Mac, except native apps that already came with it. It's just Ventura that's badly programmed I think. Some people apparently don't have this problem, so I'm not sure what it depends on. It seems to be quite individual.

It's like the problem where you name a tab group in safari and then while you type its new name, it cancels you and you have to re-click the name to edit it and then enter what you wanted to type, before it will interrupt you again and you'll have to start a third time and then it will work. That's another of these quite individual issues that some people seem to not have (or maybe they don't use these features?) and where you have to push a couple of times, before it works.

This new Mac OS world is very fancy and visually very appealing, but it's full of glitches and bugs under the bonnet. A reflection of society, it's all about the outside, about how it looks. On the inside, it's all broken, unless you don't dig too deep and stay at the surface, then all will appear great to you.