How to prevent lower left hot corner from logging me out in Sonoma

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How to prevent lower left hot corner from logging me out in Sonoma

Prior to updating to Sonoma and a new M3 iMacI had the lower left hot corner set to simply sleep the display. That setting has remained now that I have updated, but it is not working. Instead, whenever I take the pointer to the left bottom corner the system logs me out. How can I regain my original function? The hot corner I have designated is under settings-Desktop&Dock-Hot Corners Shortcuts. I see that there is also a hot corners setting under System settings-Keyboard-Accessibility-Hot Corners. Might that be overriding my setting under Shortcuts? If so, how do I turn that off? Thank you!

Posted on Nov 10, 2023 9:13 AM

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bobio Author

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Nov 12, 2023 5:28 PM in response to leroydouglas

Thank you, but that was not the issue. I had the Hot Corners set properly, but was still logged out whenever I went to the bottom left which I had set to Sleep Display. After some frustration I found the solution in another part of settings entirely - Lock Screen. On the new iMac this was set to the default of Require Password after screen saver or splay is turned off to "Immediately". Once I changed this setting to anything else, such as after 4 hours or never, everything works great. I can now take my pointer to the lower left hot corner, put the display to sleep, and then have it simply awaken when I move the pointer, without having to log back in.

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leroydouglas

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Nov 10, 2023 9:22 AM in response to bobio

bobio wrote:

Prior to updating to Sonoma and a new M3 iMacI had the lower left hot corner set to simply sleep the display. That setting has remained now that I have updated, but it is not working. Instead, whenever I take the pointer to the left bottom corner the system logs me out. How can I regain my original function? The hot corner I have designated is under settings-Desktop&Dock-Hot Corners Shortcuts. I see that there is also a hot corners setting under System settings-Keyboard-Accessibility-Hot Corners. Might that be overriding my setting under Shortcuts? If so, how do I turn that off? Thank you!

>System Settings> Search hot corners... make some change and compare your results

ref: Use hot corners on Mac - Apple Support

no insight try A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt. Restart as normal and compare your results.

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DWRabbi

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May 3, 2024 7:34 AM in response to bobio

Thank you bobio, that was driving my wife crazy.

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