Your Mac computer is set to go to sleep after a certain amount of time in order to help conserve power or your laptop’s batteries. However, it can be annoying if your computer is going to sleep when you don’t want it to. Here’s how to turn off sleep mode on a Mac using System Preferences and keep it awake with third-party apps.

MacOS – Mac wakes up from sleep every two hours on Mac OS X Yosemite console mac-mini macos sleep-wake Since upgrading to the first stable release of Mac OS X Yosemite a few days ago, my Mac Mini wakes up roughly every two hours from sleep for about a minute, then goes back to sleep. To put a Mac to sleep immediately, do one of the following: Close the lid of the MacBook Press the power button on the Mac—tapping the power button makes both MacBooks and iMacs or Mac minis drop off to sleep instantly Choose Sleep from the Apple menu.

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2. If you’re using a Mac desktop computer: Click Energy Saver. To set the amount of time that should pass before your computer goes to sleep, drag the “Computer sleep” and “Display sleep” sliders. Open Energy Saver preferences for me. If you’re using a Mac notebook: Click Battery, then click Battery or Power Adapter. To set the amount.

How to Turn Off Sleep Mode on a Mac Using System Preferences

To turn off sleep mode on a Mac, goto System Preferences > Energy Saver. Then tick the box nextto Prevent computer from sleeping automaticallywhen the display is off and drag the Turn display off after sliderto Never.

1. Open the Apple menu. You can do this by clicking the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen.
2. Then select System Preferences.
3. Next, select Energy Saver. This is the icon that looks like a light bulb.
4. Tick the box next to Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.
5. Then untick the box next to Put hard disks to sleep when possible.
6. Finally, drag the Turn display off after slider to Never.

Note: If you are using a laptop, you will only see this option if you click the Power Adapter tab at the top of the window. You can also change these settings in the Battery tab as well.

How to Turn off Sleep Mode on a Mac Using Apps

While it is easy for most people to preventtheir Macs from going into sleep mode following the steps above, there are appsavailable that let you tweak your sleep settings even more.

Amphetamine

Amphetamine is an app designed to keep your Mac wide awake by using triggers. You can easily set up the triggers to keep your Mac awake when an external display is plugged in, a specific app is running, and more. Then you can also toggle the on/off switch in the main interface to stop the triggers. You also have full control of how your computer behaves when you’re away, whether it goes to sleep, activates the screen saver, and many other actions.

Owly

If you want to control your Mac’s sleeping preferences with a simple interface, then the Owly app is your best bet. This app features a small icon that lives in the Menu Bar at the top of your screen. Clicking it will open up a menu that lets you prevent your Mac from sleeping for a set amount of time.

Now that you know how to turn off sleep mode on your Mac, check out our guide on how to turn off sleep mode on a Windows 10 PC.

There are a number of different ways to lock or sleep your screen in macOS. Before we show them to you, however, it’s important to make the distinction between locking your screen and just putting it to sleep.

If you lock your Mac you’ll put it to sleep and need to type in your login password on your Mac’s lock screen (or unlock it with TouchID on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, or with an Apple Watch). If you put it to sleep, you won’t necessarily lock it. In order to lock your screen, you need to set up the password in System Preferences. Here’s how to do that.

How to set up a password to lock the screen

1. Launch System Preferences either by clicking on its icon in the Dock or by choosing it from the Apple menu.
2. Click on the Security & Privacy pane.
3. Choose the General tab and check the option that starts ‘Require password…’
4. Choose an option from the dropdown menu.

Now, whenever your Mac goes to sleep or a screensaver starts, it will lock and you’ll have to authenticate with your user password, Apple Watch or TouchID to gain access.

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How to lock your Mac

If you have a MacBook, a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro, the quickest and easiest way to lock your Mac is just to shut the lid. When you do that, the Mac goes to sleep and when you open it again you’ll need to unlock it.

However, there are occasions when you’ll want to prevent anyone from seeing the screen without actually closing it. And, in any case, if you have an iMac, Mac mini or Mac Pro, it’s not an option. Here are some other ways you can lock your Mac’s display.

1. Use Apple menu

Go to the Apple menu and choose Sleep. This will display the login screen for your account and won’t unlock with a password (unless you’re wearing an Apple Watch when you do it and then it will lock and unlock immediately)

Tip: If you want your Mac to remain locked even when you’re close by and you have an Apple Watch, go to System Preferences>Security & Privacy>General and uncheck the Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac option.

2. Use shortcuts

If you’re using a Mac that’s running macOS Catalina, go to the Apple menu and choose Lock Screen or press Command+Control+Q. This will lock your Mac and return you to the Login screen.

For older versions of the operating system, press Control+Shift+Power button (or Control+Shift+Eject if your Mac has an optical drive). It will lock the screen.

You can also use a keyboard shortcut to put your Mac to sleep. Press Command+Option+Power (or Eject). This works in a similar way to the previous one, but rather than just lock your Mac it powers down the hard drive, puts the CPU into low power mode and stops background tasks in order to save energy.

3. Set up a hot corner

Hot corners allow you to drag to the mouse pointer to one of the four corners of the screen to initiate an action – you can use one as a sleep shortcut on your Mac. To set it up:

1. Launch System Preferences.
2. Choose the Desktop & Screen Saver pane.
3. Click the Hot Corners button at the bottom right of the window.
4. In the drop down window, choose a corner.
5. Click on the menu and choose either Start Screen Saver or Put Display to Sleep.

4. Use fast user switching

Fast user switching allows you to quickly log into another user account on your Mac. But you can also use it to return to the log in window, which locks your Mac. Got to System Preferences>Users & Groups and click the padlock, then type in your password. Click Login Options and check the box next to ‘Show fast user switch menu as.’ You can also choose whether to show the menu as your full name, the account name or an icon.

To lock your Mac, click the fast user switching menu at the right of the menu bar and choose Login Window…

5. Add Keychain Access to the menu bar

This option was removed in macOS Mojave but works on versions before High Sierra:

1. Go to Finder.
2. Choose Applications > Utilities.
3. Launch Keychain Access.
4. Click in the Keychain Access menu and select Preferences.
5. Check the box next to Show keychain status in menu bar.
6. You’ll see a lock in the Finder menu bar. Click it and choose Lock Screen to lock your Mac.

Other ways to protect your privacy

First of all, fet a Finder-like Terminal for Mac that will help you completely control the login settings. It’s called MacPilot. The app covers over 1,200 hidden macOS features. For privacy, you can go into the Login tab and customize access by users, enable the option of automatic screen locking, and edit launch items.

If you’re looking for physical protection of your Mac, Beepify is the app you need. Whenever you have to step away from the computer in a public place, activate Beepify and it will be set to produce a loud sound in case someone tries to close the screen or disconnect charger.

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CleanMyMac’s Privacy tool allows you to quickly delete your browser history in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. But it also allows you to delete message threads and attachments in Messages, and to remove entries from macOS’ recent files lists.

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As you can see, putting your Mac to sleep or locking it is very easy. There are lots of different ways to do it, although some are dependent on the version of macOS you’re using. If you regularly lock your Mac to prevent others accessing it, you should ensure your login password is strong and secure.

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Finally, if privacy is important, CleanMyMac has a couple of tools that can help delete sensitive data.