M1 Mini restarts when in sleep mode

Well, FWIW, the Panic restart has been speculated on the Internet to being related to monitors. See if plain vanilla 1 monitor to dongle-free mini HDMI gets you anything.

Hubs don’t have a spectacular records with the minis either. Snip them out and see if it gets you progress.

In all cases, lower expectations on causes/fixes from either Apple or 3rd party manufacturers if you do. Sorry, but that’s how the system works with special configurations. I do hope you get progress here, hopefully someone with a similar config will chip in with ideas. Cheers

I didn’t mean you should su&lwi. However, if your particular configuration is special, an Apple fix may or may not be forthcoming i.e. you need to plan on basis that it won’t be.

A quick browse through the Etre seems to place your config in the “special” category. I see lots of Ethernets and hard disks, presumably these use dongles & hubs. Also a bit heavy on Apps - Malware, CleanMyMac, SpeedTest etc. One or more of these could likely be the problem. I would unload all utility 3rd party Apps, skin the Ethernet to the native M1 RJ-45 port and see if you gain improvements, and continue on that path. Maybe someone else will chip in with something more promising. Good luck!

Hi Michael and hscitas,

If you check the Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off then obviously your M1 Mac Mini is not going to sleep and will remain ON even when the display has been turned OFF. My point is that if the Mac is not going to sleep then there is no question of it waking up and therefore no restarting from sleep. In my opinion, this option just circumvents the issue and does not solve it. On the other hand, I am not sure whether a complete solution is available at this time.

I had this issue with my M1 MacBook Air and I circumvented it by turning OFF Automatic Time Machine Backups before putting the MacBook to sleep. The thought process here is to see whether the next update to macOS resolves this issue.

Axel F.

Yes. I accomplish this manually by going into System Preferences ➔ Time Machine ➔ Unchecking Backup Automatically. I do this just prior to shutting the lid before putting the Mac to sleep. When it is awake then I reverse the process and so on.

Axel F.

Disable Time Machine for a few days, as planned, and see what that yields.

Axel F.

By all means do so but lower expectations…

In the meanwhile, let’s take a look at your Etre. Care to share? And details on external hubs and dongles if applicable.

Turn off sleep too, check “Prevent…”. It’s not needed for later Macs.

Well, in the first place, Sleep on the M1/2018 Intel isn’t needed. Disabling it = no problem = no issue = no solution necessary. Enabling it OTOH = all pain, no gain (and likely no fix).

What about Sleep? Is "Prevent..." checked?