Ventura 13 Power Events

Recent Upgrade to Ventura 13. Noticed in About this Mac, More Info, System Report, Power, there are Power Events showing suggesting Wake ups at certain times shown below. These did not occur in Monterey. Any thoughts?


Power Events:




Next Scheduled Events:




  appPID: 412


  Type: Wake


  Scheduled By: com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.CalendarNotification.EKTravelEngine.periodicRefreshTimer


  Time: 31/10/2022, 17:03


  UserVisible: 0




  appPID: 102


  Type: Wake


  Scheduled By: com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.acmd.alarm


  Time: 31/10/2022, 17:55


  UserVisible: 0




  appPID: 102


  Type: Wake


  Scheduled By: com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.acmd.alarm


  Time: 01/11/2022, 09:18


  UserVisible: 0

Posted on Oct 31, 2022 3:10 AM

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Posted on Dec 16, 2022 3:06 PM

In the meantime I found a solution to get rid of the power events. By "I found" I mean actually I found this thread:

Reminders app waking mac from sleep - Apple Community

So I tried it!

Behaviour before the fix:

  • "pmset -g sched" reports our beloved friends

[0] wake at 12/17/2022 00:41:44 by 'com.apple.alarm.user-visible-

com.apple.CalendarNotification.EKTravelEngine.periodicRefreshTimer'.

  [1] wake at 12/17/2022 19:23:54 by 'com.apple.alarm.user-visible-com.apple.acm

  • "sudo pmset schedule cancelall"
  • "pmset -g sched" -> all good!
  • put Mac to sleep
  • wake it up by keystroke
  • "pmset -g sched" -> bad again


Now the fix:

"sudo pmset sched cancelall"

AND

"sudo chflags schg /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist"


"This prevents the system from updating the file and my MacBook no longer wakes to reminder events. Needles to mention that it prevents all scheduled system events like sleep, power-on and such."


"I recommend removing the flag before a system update:"

"sudo chflags noschg /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist"


Behaviour AFTER the fix:

  • "pmset -g sched" -> all good!
  • put Mac to sleep
  • wakeup Mac by keystroke
  • "pmset -g sched" -> all good and hope it remains as it is...


Will see tomorrow what "pmset -g log" reports...


Good luck to all...

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Nov 25, 2022 8:15 AM in response to Jun427

Interesting notes.

I had through about bluetooth as well so yesterday I turned it off for a few hours, but I was still getting Wake requests. So I turned it back on. I only use Airpods with bluetooth on the mac and they weren't ebing used yesterday.

I also have screen time disabled so it's not that.


I only had the Weather app widget running so I removed that and will watch for a few hours today.


Nov 26, 2022 4:17 AM in response to Jun427

Woke up to 97%! Only things I did was quit all apps, turned off Bluetooth and Wifi. Those Power Events still happened. Didn't bother with those widgets because I thought I kinda prefer having them so whatever, but it was just a experiment. Am not going to turn off both Bluetooth and Wifi every night!


Since they brought the feature to reopen app after a restart/shutdown (which is a old feature now) there's not really a point to put the Macs to sleep just for that 30 secs convenience because to restart is pretty darn quick! However though, I feel like the mouse (only the mouse) Bluetooth connectivity is much slower than older Macs (for me only?). Before it was near instant when the screen came. Didn't use wireless keyboard before, and now I do maybe having wireless keyboard and mouse is too much?

Nov 27, 2022 1:53 PM in response to Daniel Wieder

So Friday I decided to shutdown and now it's Saturday night over here, I decided to jump on for few hours.


Turned on and few things besides mds_stores were running wild. I gave it few minutes then I opened System Information > Power...... really strange, no more Power Events section at all at the bottom now!


But still, I will not leave it sleeping anymore. Shutdown at night, and sleep time to time if I walk away during the day. Rather do that than always turning off bluetooth & wifi.

Dec 20, 2022 3:51 PM in response to vsw62

Have not give it a try. Maybe someone else would and report.


I guess will not. I read back my message when I had few words with someone from Apple, and if it's correct the Calendar one is for the widgets, and the acmd is for the Screen Time. I have it on thinking in my mind it's what's needed for Optimized Battery Charging to work possibly? So F it then whatever. Again, for me I shutdown at night so by day if it does it while I'm away for lunch or something while it's sleeping, whatever.

Jan 9, 2023 2:17 AM in response to adamo010

I did tons of feedbacks from their feedbacks page about everything. I came from a vintage mac so a jump to the recent macOS I noticed way more bugs. It's kinda disappointing.


Something I'll like to add just because I talk a lot lol.


So for the past four ish days my MBP was shutdown. In the past if I leave it for days it would maybe only drain 1-3%. Been sitting at 80% for weeks so I'll turn on to see 78, 79%. This time I forgot to do the usual and unplug the usb-c for the monitor lamp when shutdown and so turned on to see the battery at 74%. Like serious?


By the way, in my findings looking around the settings, in order for find my mac features to work, the wake for network access has to be on. Which I use so I guess some wake requests does have to be on. Besides that one and only wake request, I'd like my mac to just not be bother by anything and sleep.

Feb 2, 2023 12:42 AM in response to adamo010

Interesting workaround. And that does make things easier on the daily, but I wouldn't say it's totally fixed.


Like during the day when I put the MBP to sleep while I step away for few minutes, I do rely on the wireless keyboard/mouse to wake so if I did your way I would always have to open the lid and type/finger sensor to access which I've been happy with my way of using in clamp shell mode. It would suck for those who truly stationed their MBP's vertically! Or just go back to wired keyboard/mouse.

Feb 11, 2023 9:23 AM in response to JMAMBP14

Hello community,


Me having this issue too!


It's lots annoying to have fast loose of battery from updating to MacOs Ventura on a MacBook Pro 2019 but with a new official battery replaced months ago before the upgrade! (I can loose 3-5% in a minute).


Please, Apple give us some official, correct and reliable fix!


Please, go quickly for a workaround!


I need some fix and it's difficult to use it like this.


I say more than this, it seems it was not tested (almost, for every device that could upgrade it).


It's very annoying and sad to be like this.

Feb 15, 2023 12:44 PM in response to JMAMBP14

How can Apple rollout an updated OS and not do adequate regression testing on all of their platforms (I have an M1 Macbook Air) to ensure that a MAJOR BUG like this doesn't get out to consumers? I'm really losing any confidence in the Leadership Team at Apple at this point and I probably won't buy another laptop from them in the future. Come on Apple, wake up and fix this FUBAR problem that YOU HAVE CREATED and that you are obligated to correct for your paying customers!!!

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