screensaver no longer starts
Recently, my screensaver is no longer starting up after the 5 minutes idle time. I have restarted the computer and nothing changes. This began after installing macOS 12.5.1. Any ideas?
Mac mini, macOS 12.5
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Recently, my screensaver is no longer starting up after the 5 minutes idle time. I have restarted the computer and nothing changes. This began after installing macOS 12.5.1. Any ideas?
Mac mini, macOS 12.5
Hello William M.,
Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with your screensaver. Next, what we would recommend, is testing this issue in another user account. What we need to do, is log out of your current user. Log back in under another Standard or Administrator account and see if the same issue occurs there. This way we can tell if it is an issue with your user account, or if it is system wide: Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac - Apple Support
If it occurs there, try starting up in safe mode to see if that resolves the issue: Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
"Start up your Mac with Apple silicon in safe mode
Start up your Intel-based Mac in safe mode
Verify your Mac started up in safe mode
If you’re unsure whether your Mac started up in safe mode, you can use the System Information app to check the mode.
We hope this helps.
Cheers!
Hello William M.,
Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with your screensaver. Next, what we would recommend, is testing this issue in another user account. What we need to do, is log out of your current user. Log back in under another Standard or Administrator account and see if the same issue occurs there. This way we can tell if it is an issue with your user account, or if it is system wide: Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac - Apple Support
If it occurs there, try starting up in safe mode to see if that resolves the issue: Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
"Start up your Mac with Apple silicon in safe mode
Start up your Intel-based Mac in safe mode
Verify your Mac started up in safe mode
If you’re unsure whether your Mac started up in safe mode, you can use the System Information app to check the mode.
We hope this helps.
Cheers!
You are not alone, I've got a 2019 retina iMac (Intel) and the latest update broke both screensaver and monitor sleep, neither work at all now and it just stays awake...is system wide since it happens with another logged in user too. Multiple restarts and resets haven't resolved it I'm just waiting for the next update to fix it hopefully.
I agree with rsp8's reply above that the latest update seems directly related to the screensaver no longer functioning properly. But, I also tried logging in under a different admin account and the screensaver appeared to work again. I believe that would indicate that something is not compatible with the new macOS update. How do I go about determining what that is? I have almost 100 applications installed (not all running at once, of course). Suggestions, please.
screensaver no longer starts