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.
I have the same issue. After calling support team at Apple, they told me that it was a known issue with the Studio and their developers are working on a fix.
Same thing with my Mac Studio With M1 Max. It is drawing idle energy at 10W instead of sleeping 4W. It’s also keep waking up and sleep in small interval. I also found that it’s warm to the touch every morning.
Circle in red is the supposed sleeping period, but it is drawing an idle power instead.
Still wakes up every few minutes with Mac OS 12.4 installed. May have fixed problem of waking up when Hey Siri used on iPhone.
Also notice it wakes up when a text message comes in on iPhone.
I have updated all Apple devices to latest versions released today.
After I installed MacOS 12.4 I notice the machine is now no longer warm to the touch after a night sleep. However, it is still drawing 6-7W instead of 1.7W as advertised in https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/desktops/Mac_Studio_PER_March2022.pdf
The article says for Monterey, and I presume that's what it is running.
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My Ultra runs very cool. Mine does not get warm at all while it sleeps. I actually got it to heat up today for the first time by processing some 8k Video for an hour using Topaz Video Enhance AI. I do not think the fan increased speed much if at all but after a few minutes of processing the 8k it starting really blowing hot air out of the back. Prior to that I have never seen it get even a little warm. And during this my wattmeter showed 150 watts while it normally runs around 30-40. Guess all cores must have been running near wide open.
How are you getting the power graph ?SInce the Power light is lit when the Studio is On and when Sleeping it is hard to tell when the Studio is sleeping.
ShuKhor wrote:
Same thing with my Mac Studio With M1 Max. It is drawing idle energy at 10W instead of sleeping 4W. It’s also keep waking up and sleep in small interval. I also found that it’s warm to the touch every morning.
Circle in red is the supposed sleeping period, but it is drawing an idle power instead.
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/81bb905a-c28f-42d7-842e-8ce1ecf25d8d
My Max Studio can even run Torrent client in the back ground without waking up from sleep (fan not turning). It looks as only the efficient cores are working.
I think there is a low-power mode (10W) that does not require the fan to be on.
My problem is that it wakes every ten minutes and along with that any attached peripherals do to. It's not good for an attached disk drive to wake every ten minutes. 12.4 did not fix that. I also find that the right side of the Studio gets warm during the sleep time.
There is nothing to disable Powernap features on this machine. Already checked. I also of course disabled wake on LAN.
Thanks for the tip. Will try. I have wake for network access turned off so I would not think it would. Will test and see.
Yes I did that.
Guys, Apple published Mac Studio Sleep only consume 1.7W. So, the 10W is consider as idle-display on mode which is wrong. I hope Apple can quickly solve this..
Document about Max Studio published by Apple can be found here https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/desktops/Mac_Studio_PER_March2022.pdf
Mac Studio Wakes From Sleep Often
