I'd like to be able to check the internal temperature of my MacBook Pro as I am doing a lot of work from home with as little A/C as I can stand (don't want to make future heat waves any worse). I assume any widget I install is querying the Mac somehow, and I can likely see the same data with the right terminal command.
2019 Intel MBP running Monterey 12.5.1
How can I do this?
MacBook Pro
If you install Macs Fan Control, you can control/view the fan's RPM while also viewing thermals of the macbook's components. You can go into Preferences > Menu Bar Display to add live temperature readings to the menu bar.
The powermetrics command can be used to determine CPU temperature as well as a lot of other parameters. man powermetrics for details.
SMC Sensors is the last category displayed.
powermetrics just has to be run as superuser.
sudo powermetrics
Thanks! The answer was tucked in there.
Turns out I have to be a root user to do this.
Seems like an odd thing to lock away for root access only. I guess that's why widgets doing this are popular--who in the perfect tech bubble of the campus at Apple imagines end users caring about this?
Very helpful link, bookmarking for the future!
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll stick to things from the App store for now.
Check CPU temperature MacBook Pro Monterey
