Screensaver Lockout MacBook Air (M1)

Please report to Apple also. I have same issue with my Macbook Pro M1. But closing the lid and again opening is working for me. Apple said they are working on it so should be fixed in next update.

i am having issue with screenplay also. Macbook can’t play video to TV by screenplay. Hope Apple fixes the issue soon

I have the same set up, 16GB Mac Mini, all key presses and moving the (unseen) cursor towards the pre-set hot corners are ignored. Pressing the power button brings Finder back. Hope this works for others.

I have the same issue on my M1 Air. 2 account logged in. Screensaver turn on when using one of the account.

Resolution: Have to close the laptop and reopen. That seems to disable the screensaver. (Please note, i'm not restarting or re-logging in again as some users have mentioned). Hope Apple fixes this issue quickly.

Two of us are experiencing this same issue on our respective accounts on the same computer (both users on the same M1 MacBook Air). We've found that just closing the physical computer and reopening it back up resolves it. (Although it continues to keep randomly happening.)

Same happening to me. The screensaver will take over while I am using the laptop and none of the keys do anything. The only way I was able to recover was to hold down the power/finger reader to do a hard shut down. I'll try the "close and open the lid" trick next time.

Have you tried adjusting your battery settings? My screen kept on locking until I adjusted the battery settings. It was set to a few minutes, I suppose by default while running on Battery. Just an Idea.

Same here... First I had another issue that often some apps (or even the Mac) crashed when my MacBook Air M1 came out of sleep. I contact support several times about this. Eventually they asked me to reinstall the complete OS. The sleep issue is still there but now I also have that screensaver issue you are describing here (several times per day)...

I'm on 11.2.1...

I was an early adaptor of the M1 and was under the assumption those issues would be fixed in an update but we are now 11.2.1 and it seems to get worse instead of better....

PLEASE APPLE, FIX THIS. THIS IS SO ANNOYING.

Hi there,

Since the recent update, a couple of weeks back. I have not experienced the screen saver issue.

I bought my MacBook Air in December and can now say, fingers crossed, that I have no issues.

I hope you get your issues resolved soon🙏🏾

I would recommend using hot corners. So basically look up "hot corners" in the search bar by pressing on the "search" key or the "F4" key. Then, click on the screen saver and basically whenever your mouse goes to the corner that you choose, I chose the upper left corner, the MB will go into screen saver mode. When you want to use your MB again, all you got to do is move the trackpad, or even click on the trackpad and your laptop will go back to however you left it.

I am also having this issue. Confirmed that I have another admin user logged in.

Once I was able to get the login window open (that was not easy) I was able to switch to the other admin user and logout.

This is a bug!

Still present in 11.3

One week old Mac Mini M1,

Big Sur 11.3 (the update arrived today!)

Single user, no fast switching, no screensaver allowed - same issue: unkillable and not bypassable screensaver (and its ugly!), need to reboot every 20 mins :( And I was hoping to replace my 2009 Mac Pro cause that one reboots once per day, lol. Probably I'll return it, still have 3 days left to return.

I run Mac Mini headless, through Apple's Screen Sharing app - that may be the trigger.

SOLUTION : Close the laptop display and then open immediately, it will prompt for password/touch-id...to come out of the screensaver deadlock.

A reminder to everyone reporting and discussing this bug... Apple does not read these forums. EVERYONE needs to report the bug at Product Feedback - Apple

I have the same issue. AppleCare is ‘unaware’ of the issue. I suspect this means they don’t have a fix planned in the next update.

Apple recommends I reinstall the MacOS!

Same issue here. A work arround ; click on power button, click "cancel" and login ... It work for me but it's very anoying.