How to schedule Shut down in macOS Ventura

Irvin Naylor wrote:

Hello All. How do you schedule a shut down in macOS Ventura? The Energy Saver tab does not currently have the option.

Thank you

See if this helps:

Schedule your Mac to turn on or off in Terminal - Apple Support

RatleyRambler wrote:

And I’ve discovered that the pre-Ventura Scheduled Shutdown is still functioning. But there is now no HMI to change it. 😱

Look back through this thread. There are several posts with the solution to both clear and configure these settings using the command line with the Terminal app. Apple even has an article with instructions which seems to imply removing the GUI configuration option was intentional:

macOS Ventura Schedule your Mac to turn on or off in Terminal - Apple Support

jordancicco wrote:

Dear apple, Please bring back schedualed shutdown i loved it.

Apple is not here on these forums. We are just other regular users such as yourself. At best you can provide Apple with product feedback here (Apple won't respond):

Product Feedback - Apple

Edit: Actually you can still schedule startups & shutdowns in Ventura, but it now requires using the command line:

Schedule your Mac to turn on or off in Terminal - Apple Support

Scheduled power events are gone from System Settings. (One of the last bastions of NextSTEP and a marvel on the NeXT computers now relegated to the terminal via the pmset command which is a relic of a bygone era).

I want it to power on a particular Mac on Saturday's at 09:00 and shutdown at 21:00 so the command which has to be run by sudo is :-

sudo pmset repeat wakeorpoweron S 09:00:00 shutdown S 21:00:00

This has annoyed me so much I wrote it up.

https://www.ezone.co.uk/blog/ventura-system-settings.html

What happens when you try? The command works for me. Make sure it's typed exactly as shown, with the args properly put in.

Here's the template:

sudo pmset repeat [type] [day] [time]

Here's an example (shutdown every Friday at 8:00 PM):

sudo pmset repeat shutdown F 20:00:00

However, Apple offers this note:

Your Mac must be awake and you must be logged in for it to shut down at the scheduled time. If you’re not logged in or if your Mac is in sleep, it won’t shut down.

Schedule your Mac to turn on or off in Terminal - Apple Support

Using Terminal isn't 'programming'. Think of it as a secondary method to perform system tasks.

From within Terminal: (Example)

To have BOTH startup and shutdown:

sudo pmset repeat poweron MTWRFSU 6:00:00 shutdown MTWRFSU 21:30:00

To cancel the schedule:

sudo pmset repeat cancel

NilssonSchmilsson wrote:

Have you yourself tried the command that you suggested?

iMac-Pro:~ *****$ sudo pmset repeat shutdown MTWRFSU 1:00:00

Password:

iMac-Pro:~ *****$ pmset -g sched

Repeating power events:

shutdown at 1:00AM every day

iMac-Pro:~ *****$ sudo pmset repeat cancel

iMac-Pro:~ *****$ pmset -g sched

iMac-Pro:~ *****$

Hey all you apple iMac users who have switched to OS Ventura and found that your scheduled shutdown and wakeorpoweron times don't work. I haven't seen in real good answer to the the question of to get this working again. And honestly I haven't read every post. So maybe this answer exists already. If you want to schedule wake and shutdown daily for your OS Ventura systems type this in terminal:

sudo pmset repeat shutdown MTWRFSU 00:00:00/repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRFSU 00:00:00

This one line will set wake and shutdown time. Make sure you use 24 clock times (ie. 09:00:00, 22:00:00 etc.)

check your schedule by using this line:

pmset -g sched all

For those who have figured this out, old news. For those for who this relieves a little frustration, I'm glad I could help.

Try this…

sudo pmset repeat shutdown MTWRFSU 1:00:00

"She indicated that feedback like this is taken seriously and I hope they'll bring back Energy Saver in some form via an update."

Thats what I was told as well. Probably why they wrote the article

Schedule your Mac to turn on or off in Terminal - Apple Support

Yes, we can Schedule on Mac for Shutdown for Shutdown, Restart, Sleep & Wake using the terminal command with Date, Time - for Specific Day & Days in Week.

also, We can Cancel old Events

• Next Scheduled Events:
• Repeating Events:

Using a command as well. get more all about, https://www.howtoisolve.com/how-to-schedule-mac-turn-on-off-and-sleep-wake/

We found the same problem. Just been onto Apple support and they confirm that the feature has been removed.

But because others are asking where it has gone as well they are raising it as a feature request "for consideration for future releases".

I also told them that, in these days of escalating energy costs and Apple's claim to be environmentally friendly, it is incomprehensible why the schedule shutdown has been removed.

For now you can do this via terminal, a little bit of a hassle, but at least it lets us auto shutdown and start up

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/schedule-shut-down-boot-up-macos-ventura/

Please bring this feature back. My efforts to modify this setting in Terminal are unsuccessful. In the previous MacOS, I had the schedule set to start up everyday at 7:00am. I don't want to have learn a programming language just to make changes to the system. That's why I own a Mac!

I hope they'll bring back that feature too (UI-wise I mean, I don't buy a Mac to open Terminal to set power schedule...). In the meantime you can contact Apple support and send feedback through the Product Feedback website...