How to Make Mac Turn Off or On Automatically

That’s possible, I was referring to the link from @dialabrain which referred only to wake & sleep. It also contained a dead link to pmset, unfortunately.

Irrespective, here’s the pmset command with all the options, should work (prepend sudo):

pmset schedule [cancel] {sleep | wake | poweron | shutdown | wakeorpoweron}
               "MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss" [owner]

      pmset repeat cancel

      pmset repeat {sleep | wake | poweron | shutdown | wakeorpoweron}
               weekdays "MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss"
               Where weekdays is a subset of MTWRFSU ("M" and "MTWRF" are valid strings)

Randy Allen wrote:

Thanks, but not an option for me. For years now it's been the same...System Prefs>Schedule>set time on>set time off. Let's get stupid now and "make it easier ???" 😜🤔🤪

You're welcome. I actually can think of a reason why it was removed but we can't speculate. 😎

Here is an example using terminal. Change the times as you require:

Separately:

Shut down each day at 9:30 pm:

Sudo pmset repeat shutdown MTWRFSU 21:30:00  and hit return

Enter PW if required

Startup every day at 6:00AM:

Sudo pmset repeat wake MTWRFSU 6:00:00 and hit return

To have both startup and shutdown:

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

To check if these were set:

Pmset -g sched

To cancel all settings:

Sudo pmset repeat cancel and hit return

Monday=M

Tuesday=T

Wednesday=W

Thursday=R

Friday=F

Saturday=S

Sunday=U

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

They weren’t really turning the Mac off and on but sleeping and waking it, both of which are unnecessary on later Macs and should be disabled. Use these settings:

Settings for Ventura:

hcsitas wrote:

It also contained a dead link to pmset, unfortunately.

Not sure what you mean by "dead"…

On the Apple support article you linked

…not your bad.

I get this on my bayta iPadOS latest🤔

Open Energy Saver, then "schedule" assuming you are not running Ventura.

That's what I clicked on to do the screen shot. It's not "dead" for me.

Perhaps you should try it on a non-"bayta" Mac.