Fake/insufficient Sleep modus

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Fake/insufficient Sleep modus

My 2020 MacBook Pro (macOS BigSur) breaks all expectations I have from a properly designed sleep mode:

power consumption is far from negligible; the battery drains by at 20-40% overnight, sigh
activity and network communications are not shut down at all; I still receive notification sounds from messenger services long after I put the MAC to "sleep". That really makes me very uncomfortable.

Is there no "real sleep" mode in a MACbook ? Any settings I can or need to change ?

And this also happens when no USB devices are connected (see related discussions in this forum).

Thanks!

ML

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Sep 15, 2021 7:01 AM

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Answer 1

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Grant Bennet-Alder

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Sep 15, 2021 7:40 AM in response to UsedToLikeMAC

Turn off Power nap and related get-work-done-while sleeping settings

disable wake on network access

disable file sharing

connect your power adapter when you Mac is stationary -- your Mac uses smart charging and will NEVER over-charge.

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Answer 2

Sep 29, 2021 11:17 PM in response to Yer_Man

Thanks for your reply.

It seems to be the WindowServer, which other folks struggle with as well and no solution seems in sight:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252081695

How very disturbing that Apple has posted no fix yet.

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Answer 3

Sep 15, 2021 8:58 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks a lot !

The only active option (from the ones you suggested) was:

"Enable power nap while plugged into power adapter" (I would have never interpreted this one correctly!)

I disabled it and will now monitor the sleep settings.

I still will disconnect the power adapter overnight while I test how much power is consumed in sleep mode.

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Answer 4

Sep 17, 2021 2:03 AM in response to UsedToLikeMAC

Update: nothing has changed, the MacBook "woke up" several times in sleep mode. One time could be clearly tied to a bluetooth device in its proximity. And the battery also lost significant charge overnight, sigh.

I find this highly unsatisfying and disconcerting. I definitely want a full sleep mode, without having to go through dozens of settings that are on by default.

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Answer 5

Sep 29, 2021 11:03 PM in response to UsedToLikeMAC

This issue is actually driving me a bit crazy. The full (!) battery drains overnight in sleep mode when the MAC is supposed to not do much. How do you all live with such a blatant flaw? How do you not lose complete trust in macOS ? And in what sense would you claim that macOS is superior to the much ridiculed Windows OS ?

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