My Mac Studio Ultra wakes from sleep on its own an average of about every ten minutes. The problem is I have a external hard drive connected via thunderbolt and its puts a lot of unnecessary wear on it.
Pretty sure it is a problem with OS 12.3
My dark wakes from sleep are apparently caused by network signals waking the Mac. 12.4 did not fix. Apparently deselecting "wake for network access" does nothing with the current Apple implementation. I fixed it by inputting the following terminal commands:
sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0
sudo pmset -a powernap 0
If you decide to reverse it just replace 0 with 1 to go back to original settings. This will let the system stay asleep all the time. The only disadvantage is that Find My Mac will not work as well because no position updates will be sent during the solid periods of sleep. I wish Apple would fix the "wake for network access" setting so that it would actually work properly when being deselected or add an additional setting for those of us who actually want our machines to stay asleep.
My dark wakes from sleep are apparently caused by network signals waking the Mac. 12.4 did not fix. Apparently deselecting "wake for network access" does nothing with the current Apple implementation. I fixed it by inputting the following terminal commands:
sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0
sudo pmset -a powernap 0
If you decide to reverse it just replace 0 with 1 to go back to original settings. This will let the system stay asleep all the time. The only disadvantage is that Find My Mac will not work as well because no position updates will be sent during the solid periods of sleep. I wish Apple would fix the "wake for network access" setting so that it would actually work properly when being deselected or add an additional setting for those of us who actually want our machines to stay asleep.
I tried the 12.4 it seems that the issue has been resolved. I found that when logon sleep, it will consume 7W. If you logout sleep, it will consume 1.7W. While sleeping, it will wake up for updates periodically every 10mins and consuming 7W back to 1.7W in 1-2 min
You can use "pmset" from a terminal prompt to disable both PowerNap and TCPKeepAlive (the latter is what keeps mine waking up IMO)
"sudo pmset -a powernap 0"
"sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0"
Have you tried unchecking the "Wake for network access" option under power settings?
I have noticed that if I turn off my MX Logitech MX mouse it will not wake from sleep mode. For me that is my current solution.
My Mac Studio Ultra has this issue too. I discovered it is port dependent, here at least. It sleeps properly when I use the 2nd TBolt port from the right (looking at the back).
The behavior varied from port to port, but all worked for me on the 2nd from the right.
Have you tried unchecking the option to have Hey Siri listening even when the Mac is idle ?
Siri is sending out a ping signal to locate all your Find My devices. Try turning off Find My on your Mac, and see if your Mac still wakes up.
I completely erased my Mac Studio drive and reinstalled OS. Even with a fresh install and NO third party software installed it still has defective sleep. I have completely ruled out it to be caused by any software. It is definitely in the OS.
It’s icloud pinging your Mac for the location, you can turn off the location service and see if that helps
in the mean time and I'm no expert about this Studio Ultra sleep issue, I don't sleep the Mac currently because during this so called sleep my Ultra was getting slightly warm to the touch and of course externals would be awake but both display would be sleeping. Strange condition.
The warm to the touch bothers me so I set the screen saver to turn off the displays, set energy saver to prevent Mac from auto sleeping when displays are off. I can live with this setup. The Ultra does not get warm at all. I'm positive in live mode the Studio does not draw more than 35 watts. Sleep mode should be 4 watts but I can live with the 35 watts. Hopefully a real fix occurs. I think so highly of this Studio Ultra that I'm not going to return it. It kicks butt. I gave up my 2019 Mac Pro and am totally satisfied.
Good info, thanks.
This past week I've disconnected all externals and one at a time tried sleep. Sleep becomes all over the place nothing points to a solution for my system. I did notice that USB attached devices do cause problems with the sleep. Two I have would be an OWC blu ray USB burner and a Red Dragonfly USB DAC. Turning the burner off but leaving the usb connected was ok but the Dragonfly is a different issue. The Sonnet Echo seemed to work by itself but the Cal digit TS3+ thunderbolt Dock is a different issue. The Cal Digit thunderbolt Elements also. My OWC 4 Bay thunderbolt is off and disconnected . It houses 4 mechanical hard drives. Not going to risk these drives. I only turn them on when needed then unmount when not. Same for the OWC USC-C Dock. Printers are all connected by ethernet, so no issue.
To tell you the truth, I think I've had these sleep issues for years not just because I have the Studio currently.
BTW I'm running Monterey 12.3.1 and still have the issue.
Boot your Mac Studio into recovery mode, and then enter into sleep mode. Measure the wattage used. This will ensure that there is no software running in the background.
Hi, my Mac Studio are plugged into a smart power monitoring device. Look at the timing is where I asleep.. and I put in effort to set it into sleep before I went to sleep.. it goes down to 5W initially indicating it is sleeping.. I also ensure the fan is stop by feeling it at the bottom. It wakes up on its own showing on average 10W power consumption the whole night. 10W consumption is rated as idle power not sleeping. Clearly something is wrong here. I turned off the wake on wifi for updates. Every time I got back to the desk, the Max Studio is warm to the touch.
Additional Info: If you use HeySiri on iPhone it will wake the Mac Studio within seconds. Looks like this sleep problem happens because of the Mac Studio sensing network activity. Why would the iPhone send a network signal after using Hey Siri? Maybe the problem is in IOS?
Mac Studio Wakes From Sleep Often
