Wake your Mac with a wireless keyboard, mouse, or trackpad
Wake your Mac with a wireless keyboard, mouse, or trackpad
If you have a Bluetooth wireless keyboard, mouse, or trackpad and a Bluetooth enabled Mac, you can set your Mac to wake when you press a key or click the mouse or trackpad.
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Bluetooth.Open Bluetooth preferences for me
- Click Advanced.
- Select “Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer.”
If this option is dimmed, determine if your Mac supports this feature. Put the Mac to sleep then connect a USB device, such as a USB keyboard or mouse, and try to wake your Mac with it. (Disconnecting and reconnecting an existing device is also acceptable.) If the USB device doesn’t wake your Mac, your Mac doesn’t support the Bluetooth wake-from-sleep feature.If a wired USB device wakes your Mac from sleep, but the option is dimmed, try these additional steps:
- Be sure your Mac has Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later installed.
- Be sure your Mac has either an internal Bluetooth module or a connected D-Link DBT-120 USB-to-Bluetooth adapter, revision B2 or later. This feature only works with these devices.
- Download and install the latest Bluetooth software.
- If your Mac still will not wake, download and install the latest Bluetooth Firmware Update.
Note: The D-Link DBT-120 USB-to-Bluetooth adapter is not compatible with OS X v10.6 or later.