Monterey awakens randomly from sleep. Other issues fixed - Any new solutions?
To whom it concerns:
Ever since upgrading to Monterey, and then with macOS 12.1, my iMac (Retina 5k, 27 inch 2017, iMac18,3, 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7) has constantly awakened from sleep, even though all notifications have been turned off, network access has been turned off in the energy saver settings, and in the firewall options, the checkbox to block all incoming connections has been checked. I have reviewed people's complaints on the issue both here at the Apple forums and on the Internet and do not see any solution that solves this. One person also indicated they did a clean install of Monterey and still had this problem.
I started the computer as an administrator in safe mode, and that did nothing. When I reset the SMC and PRAM, that did not solve the issue of random awakening, but it fixed a very slow computer operating under macOS Monterey.
From what I have read, Apple Bluetooth devices should not randomly awaken the computer. I have an Apple extended wireless Magic Keyboard as well as an Apple trackpad, and there are no other Bluetooth devices connected to the iMac. After macOS Monterey was installed, there was a problem of very slow response of the computer to the Bluetooth devices , which I also fixed. I did this by first deleting the trackpad and keyboard from the Bluetooth menu, then deleted the Bluetooth preferences, restarted the computer, and then reassociated the trackpad and the keyboard with the iMac. Now the computer responds instantly to these devices.
I am tempted to throw away some caches or preferences, but do not know which of these to delete. Does anyone have an updated solution for preventing Monterey from awakening randomly on its own?
Any help that you have is much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Wilson