Staying in sleep mode

[circatee]

When/if you place your Mac Mini in Sleep mode, does it remain in that mode, and does the light on the front of the Mac Mini remain on?
Am trying to learn how Sleep mode should/shouldn't work...

 

[DeltaMac]

If you put your mini to sleep, it should continue to sleep, until you wake it, or something disturbs that sleep, such as plugging/unplugging a USB device, or accidentally pressing a random key on your keyboard - unless your mini is set to go to a deeper hybernation mode, when your mini might appear to power off completely. (Off, but restores back to current state after pressing and releasing the power button) That deep sleep mode is probably unusual, if that's what you see.
-- So, depends on what you are doing, and the power settings that you might have in use, and also depends on the rest of your hardware configuration, particularly what kind of external devices you would have attached.
AFAIK, if your mini is a 2018 or later model, there is no indication light for sleep mode, like there is on older Macs -- so there is no visual indicator that your Mac is sleeping, other than the display would be black. The power light will always be on, unless your Mac power is off. The power LED remains on, even when sleeping.

Are you having any kind of problem? Which mini do you have?

 

[circatee]

If you put your mini to sleep, it should continue to sleep, until you wake it, or something disturbs that sleep, such as plugging/unplugging a USB device, or accidentally pressing a random key on your keyboard - unless your mini is set to go to a deeper hybernation mode, when your mini might appear to power off completely. (Off, but restores back to current state after pressing and releasing the power button) That deep sleep mode is probably unusual, if that's what you see.
-- So, depends on what you are doing, and the power settings that you might have in use, and also depends on the rest of your hardware configuration, particularly what kind of external devices you would have attached.
AFAIK, if your mini is a 2018 or later model, there is no indication light for sleep mode, like there is on older Macs -- so there is no visual indicator that your Mac is sleeping, other than the display would be black. The power light will always be on, unless your Mac power is off. The power LED remains on, even when sleeping.

Are you having any kind of problem? Which mini do you have?

Thanks for the response. My Mac Mini is an 2018 Intel i3, with 32GB memory.
I just tested it again, a moment ago, and it seemed to go to Sleep mode. Well, the screen remained dark, and the white light on the front remained on.

I think what may have happened, was when I initially placed it in Sleep mode, and then tried to turn off the keyboard and magic mouse (physically turn them off), it came back on.

 

[DeltaMac]

that (turning off a wireless keyboard/mouse) would be the disturbance that I mentioned. No reason to turn off either the mouse or keyboard. Either one would normally go into a standby mode when not touched or moved for some time period (IDK how long), and battery should last a month or so between charges, even if never shut off.