Reminders app waking mac from sleep

Hi. I'm having the same issue on my all macOS Catalina.

I continued to experience the same issue whilst in safe mode

That's a good point and I agree, worth a shot.

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Has this bug been fixed with Big Sur? Any experience?

So I had this same issue. I had caffeine installed. Apparently it kept the system awake after the reminder wake was triggered. I installed Amphetamine and checked "Allow system sleep when display closed" option. Since then when the reminder woke my mac when it was asleep, it would go back to sleeping a minute later. Hope this helps for you guys too

So it didnt work.. on my mbp , it would stay awake once the reminder was triggered.. would not go to sleep.. ended up removing reminders from icloud

update : even when reminders were removed from icloud in mbp, wake events are updated in power menu for reminders created in iphone :(

Hello FUNK1196,

Thanks for posting about the issue you're experiencing on your Mac. I understand that it appears to be waking from sleep unexpectedly.

I recommend checking out some of the suggestions from this link to make sure you've covered them all: If your Mac doesn't sleep or wake when expected

"If your Mac wakes unexpectedly

Your Mac might wake for these activities:

• Network activity that uses the Wake on Demand feature. Examples of network activity include iTunes sharing, photo sharing, printer sharing, file sharing, and using Back to My Mac.*
• Enhanced notifications from FaceTime, Messages, and other apps and services.
• Bluetooth activity. To prevent Bluetooth devices from waking your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Bluetooth. Click the Advanced Button, then deselect "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer."

This may help as well:

"If the previous steps don't work

These additional steps may help identify or resolve the issue: 

• Reset the SMC.
• Reset NVRAM.
• Disconnect external devices other than your Apple keyboard, mouse, and display. If that resolves the issue, gradually reconnect your devices, testing each time, until you find the device that is interfering with sleep. Then check the documentation that came with the device, or contact the device manufacturer.
• Start up in Safe Mode to see if the issue is related to non-Apple startup items, login items, or kernel extensions. 
• Try to isolate the issue by using another user account."

If none of the above seems to help in getting to the bottom of the issue, I recommend that you Contact Apple Support next.

Best wishes.

Just clean install 10.15.3 and same issue

2020-02-07 09:31:36 +0300 Start               	powerd process is started                                                  	          
2020-02-07 09:40:34 +0300 Sleep               	Entering Sleep state due to 'Software Sleep pid=771':TCPKeepAlive=active Using AC (Charge:100%) 31 secs   
2020-02-07 09:40:37 +0300 AppWakeReason       	AppWoke:com.apple.bluetoothd Reason:Proximity Wake                         	          
2020-02-07 09:40:39 +0300 Wake Requests       	[process=dasd request=SleepService deltaSecs=14855 wakeAt=2020-02-07 13:48:14 info="com.apple.dasd:0:com.apple.apsd.apprefresh"] [*process=dasd request=TimerPlugin deltaSecs=1878 wakeAt=2020-02-07 10:11:57 info="com.apple.dasd:com.apple.rtcreportingd:NRM"] [process=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance deltaSecs=7200 wakeAt=2020-02-07 11:40:39]           
2020-02-07 09:41:05 +0300 Wake                	Wake from Deep Idle [CDNVA] : due to EC.KeyboardTouchpad/User Using AC (Charge:100%)   

I have the same issue. I have tried as well a lot of things including clean install of Catalina. It is a bug with the reminder app. You can switch all of in Notification Center. It doesn't help. As well, do not disturb, or any of the other settings don't work. Including 00.00-23.59 DnD!

I think the best thing is, switch of iCloud sync of reminder app and clean all reminders within the app on your Mac. So it means you can only use your other staff like iPhone or iPad for the reminders.

Why the Mac don't go to sleep? This is a bug as well. The Prozess apfsd / hidd let the Mac not go to sleep.

Well. When I set a reminder I expect it the reminder otherwise what is the goal to have a reminder.

May be the bug was on previous release that won’t remind you something because the Mac was asleep.

I mean you expect an alarm clock to wake up you, don’t you ?

now I would likely agree that it depends of each one requirement, I think it make sense to have a reminder be ‘vocal’ thus attempt to remind me something in all situation, you don’t think so.

Both are acceptable. As a developer you need to choose one or t other.

BTW have you or not set a reminder at this time ?

I think it's a hideous idea that a Mac would wake up for reminders. It destroys the whole concept of being asleep. When a Mac is put to sleep it should NEVER wake up (unless you set it to 'wake for network access'). That's what sleep means. If you want to sit there by your Mac and have it remind you, don't have it asleep. Just use a screensaver or turn the monitor off. Sleep should mean sleep. What is the point of waking up for every reminder when you're not there. As I said, if there are occasions when you want it to remind you, DON'T PUT IT TO SLEEP. In any case an iOS device or Watch will always remind you.

Besides, as has been pointed out, the Mac has NEVER previously done this which with all the bugs Apple seem to be incapable of eliminating prior to MacOS releases does rather indicate this is just another Catalina bug.

If you consider this normal and correct behaviour, what are doing here.

"Me too"!

Macbook Pro Early 2015 with Mac OSX 10.15.4 installed, connected with Ethernet, power and external screen.

Every morning I see light coming from my office room as Macbook is already awake due to reminders.

I tried everything that has been suggested in this thread, nothing helped.

When I put my Macbook to sleep, I want it to sleep, not to wake up in the middle of the night.

From my point of view, this is a bug and should be fixed.

If this has been added by Apple intentionally, they should at least give user a checkbox within the settings to decide, which wake up behaviour they prefer!

Boot into Safe Mode (How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support) by booting with the Shift key held down and check there to see if the problem persists.  Reboot normally and test again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing. 

Thank you! "sudo chflags noschg" works for me!