M2 MacBook Air blacks out if I press the power button when it's sleeping

The M2 MacBook Air is a fantastic computer, but it does this annoyingly unforgiving thing: When I go to wake it up from sleep in the morning, I sometimes accidentally press the power/touch id button, instead of just resting my finger on it to wake the computer. For whatever reason, this always briefly shows me the screensaver, and then the screen goes completely black, and I can't get it to come back on without force-shutting down the computer by holding down the power button, and then restarting it.


I'm well aware the simple answer is, "stop doing that", but obviously, I'm not doing it on purpose! Given Apple's focus on human factors, I would expect a little more resilience. Something about pressing the power button is making my screen enter into an unrecoverable (without rebooting) state. It seems very unlikely that this is the intended behavior of pressing the power button.


Is anyone else having this problem? If you've had it and were able to solve it, what did you do?

MacBook Air, macOS 14.2

Posted on Dec 30, 2023 10:30 AM

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