Studio Display Will Not Wake From Sleep

Follow-up. Apple genius bar had my studio display for 2 days and were unable to replicate the issue.

Has anyone been able to reliably trigger the problem? This would help with troubleshooting. I was having some luck triggering the problems on my Intel 2018 MacBook Pro by manually invoking standby mode (sudo pmset -a standbydelayhigh 60; pmset sleepnow). Then, my bluetooth keyboard would wake the mac before 60 seconds of sleep but would not wake after 60 seconds of sleep. At some point during this testing, macOS rebooted for some reason during sleep, and I have not been able to trigger the problem using this method since. Maybe it is a bug that manifests after some degree of runtime? Unfortunately, these pmset parameters can not be modified on Apple Silicon Macs.

You won’t find a solution here, just depressing workarounds, if you can even call something like unplugging the cable a workaround.

Return it while you can! The compromises are not worth it and Apple has had 6 months to fix it already.

I highly recommend Stay for managing window arrangements for different monitor configurations. I know this does nothing to address the issue with the display, but it would at least save you the hassle of rearranging your windows every time. Works great alongside any window-snapping utilities you might be using like Moom, Magnet, etc.

I have the same issue it just happens pretty sporadically. I'm running a M1 Max Studio with a Dell 5k2k monitor and an Apple wireless keyboard and magic mouse. I've been rebooting after it won't wake up which is a major pain.

I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I used a MacBook Pro (in clamshell mode), Thunderbolt Cinema Display, and wireless Apple keyboard and trackpad from 2013-2015ish and that ensemble worked flawlessly. The computer and display always went to sleep and woke up reliably without any unplugging or disabling sleep in System Preferences or any other nonsense. All I want is a return to the good ol’ days.

Same problem. I find this completely unacceptable from Apple.

I've a brand new Mac Studio and Studio monitor - I connected it up all fine.

The next day I was doing some work on it - went away to do something else for half an hour, came back. I couldn't wake it.

Eventually it turned on but the time to wake it lengthened until I just had to do a crash reboot (or whatever you call it)

Then the computer went into a start up loop. I ended up going into diagnostics and reinstalling Monterey.

I got it happening again and then I turned off the computer sleep etc in Energy Saver. That worked for a morning. Now here I am in the afternoon and the computer won't wake again.

I have a ten yr old iMac that I was waiting to upgrade (but nooo, Apple aren't doing new 27 inch iMacs, pfft) I bought the Mac studio and then with the computer just sitting in its box I had to wait 2 months for the monitor to turn up and now this.

Yeah, I'm somewhat annoyed.

I would guess that for most laptop users, unplugging the display from the laptop is a lot easier than unplugging the display from the wall. (And for what it's worth, powering off the display did not alleviate this issue for me.)

Chiming in to agree. As a laptop user, this problem persists. And yes, unplugging and replugging the thunderbolt cable from the clamshelled laptop is the quickest way to fix. But it's still annoying. Wish Apple would find a fix.

Unfortunately I think the unplugging from power fix may be anecdotal. Mine was unplugged for over a day, and after being plugged back in and put to sleep overnight, it was again non-responsive this morning and the TB cable had to be removed and plugged back in, just like always.

This was my experience as well. If powering down the monitor for a period of time fixed anything (which I'm not sure it did), it certainly didn't fix it for long enough to make it worth doing as a laptop user. Might be more worth it for a desktop.

Do others in here have open support tickets with Apple? I'll call Apple support today to see if this is actively being worked on. Otherwise Studio Display #2 is going back before the return window is up.

The OP of this thread, TechnicallyInclined, had posted that they pursued this with Apple but did not have it fixed. I wonder if they have an update.

User jspence444 (who claims to be the OP but doesn't appear to be) had posted that they pursued this with Apple, and it was determined a hardware problem. They give steps to confirm you have the same issue, but I have not yet tried the steps.

It's interesting that you have one display waking and not the other, because on my Macbook Pro M1, when the Studio Display fails to wake up, all my screens stay black until I remove and reinsert the thunderbolt cable; at which point the computer picks up right where it left off (no restart needed).

So essentially whatever is going wrong with the studio display prevents all displays from functioning on my computer, but the computer is not frozen or otherwise affected.

I'm connected to an LG 42 LED TV via HDMI for a monitor. I found away around the sleeping screen. I use the power button on the LG controller. Then I easily use my Expert Wired Mouse to get the screen up. Works every time.

I can’t speak to the Samsung monitor (it may have a unique issue all to itself), but I can certainly say that not all monitors have this wake issue, because I’ve tried the Dell u2720, u2723, and u2715h, in various dual monitor configs, and none of them have had a wake issue, ever, with the exact same MacBook Pro configuration that has issues with the Studio Display.