mac wont wake from sleep after Catalina upgrade

It did not get fixed until 10.15.4. With great trepidation, but nothing to lose, I udpated to 10.15.4 and finally my iMAC will wake up and the apps will open. It has only been three days, but these are the only days in many months that I have not had to shut down or do a hard restart to wake it up.

I am still having the issue even after updating to 10.15.4. Although it is nice to know that it is an issue on Apple's end and not something else wrong with the laptop itself? I guess all I can do is wait for another update, or re-install macOS Sierra. Maybe I can get my money back for the logic board replacement...

Hi Eugene,

Sorry, I was no able to answer before today. Well, your pmset config seems to be Ok. So, the only cause I see is that your MB was sleeping with only battery as energy-source, could it be?

If that was the cause, remember that when battery runs out of energy, current session will be lost. This is the disadvantage of no hibernation mode active.

I hope to work on this when I have some spare time (or a way to make a living out of my time spent on solving Apple issues :))

Thanks for sharing

Jorge

Me too.

Have this issue after clean installation of 10.15.4 on my Mac mini.

Did NVRAM and SMC reset, disabled Dropbox from load.

That is just hilarious, Catalina is a disaster. Apple is not capable to produce usable software.

It looks like installing and configuring Gentoo linux will be more time efficient.

I would like to participate.

I have an MacBook Air 2019, bought in Dec2019, with Catalina. Since the beginning I have the same problem, after a few hours my MacBook does not wake up normally.

If I just open it, nothing happens at all, it stays black. Forever.

When I open it and press the power button or other keys, nothing happens.

If I keep pressing the power button for about 40-60 seconds the user screen appears after some time. It's not a reboot, it just wakes up as it should be. With a delay.

I don't really need to keep pressing it, I just have to wait a minute or so, the I can push the power button and it awakes.

So my MacBook is only able to awake after quite a time and pressing the power button.

My friend recently got the MacBook Air 2020. If he opens up his MacBook, it's right awake, as it should be.

Together we checked the power management setting in the terminal, everything ist identical.

This is mine:

standbydelaylow      10800
standby              1
halfdim              1
hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
proximitywake        0
powernap             0
gpuswitch            2
disksleep            10
standbydelayhigh     86400
sleep                1 (sleep prevented by sharingd)
hibernatemode        3
ttyskeepawake        1
displaysleep         2
tcpkeepalive         1
highstandbythreshold 50
acwake               0
lidwake              1

I did the SMC and PRAM Reset and deleted the power management plist files as suggest in an other thread. Still the same.

Did you migrate anything from an older OS version?

EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…

https://pastebin.com/

Same issue for me ever since I upgraded to Catalina. Began April 10th. Have logged hours with Apple Support, done many of the solutions listed here (PRAM, SMC, new install of Catalina) and even brought in for repair. The Apple authorized shop was of course unable to replicate, but just to be safe replaced the "top case assembly." Just three days later, the issue arose again.

On hold with Apple Support again now, per my Mac guy's recommendation. He recommends pushing them to fix it. Frustrating...

Any fixes for those of us in this thread that tried the resetting of the NVRAM/PRAM?

Tried both suggestions. neither one worked for me:(

Did you check this (Jan 16, 2020 4:58 PM in response to mlea29) out?

Turning off Power Nap was the instant fix for me.

1. Open System Preferences and click Energy Saver
2. Remove the checkmark for Enable Power Nap

The latest patch update seems to be working!!!! I am back up and running all monitors and equipment and the sleep awakes great!

Good Luck!

Chris

Same issue. Seems to happen every time on resuming from sleep after the Catalina upgrade.

iMac Pro.

I Reset NVRAM with no luck, and will try safe mode after work today. In addition to the Mac not waking, I do see my cursor and notifications still appear but screen remains black.