Mac Studio Wakes From Sleep Often

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

Posted on Mar 24, 2022 5:25 PM

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Posted on Jun 5, 2022 1:36 PM

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.

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