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Every time I come out of sleep mode I have to login with my MacBook password. I want to change from "immediately" to 4 hours, but it's greyed out and I can't change it. How do I fix that?
Thanks, Mike
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
Are any of your other preferences blocked— I can see that pane is not active(?)
Verify you do not have a conflict of interest.
Set sleep and wake times for your Mac - Apple Support
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test. Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can run this trusted utility http://etrecheck.com
If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.
Are any of your other preferences blocked— I can see that pane is not active(?)
Verify you do not have a conflict of interest.
Set sleep and wake times for your Mac - Apple Support
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test. Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt.
This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can run this trusted utility http://etrecheck.com
If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.
I ran the etrecheck.app as suggested. It found several IBM security profiles left over from when I was with IBM. They were once required since I used my personal Mac for IBM. Etrecheck allowed me to delete them. I then rebooted, turned off file vault to decrypt everything since I think that conflicted with my trying to change the password settings. I couldn't turn it off before due to the IBM security profiles. After that, rebooting again, I was able to change the password lock after sleep, from immediately to other settings, e.g. 4 hours.
While this is a minor issue trying to change my setting, I was grateful to you for the suggestion on how to discover the conflicts. Perfect solution.
Semper fidelis from an old Marine.
I did unlock the padlock. Still won't let me change it.
You only have options if the box is checked.
Require Password "immediately" after sleep ... "Immediately" is greyed out - can't change it
