MacOS Sonoma unlocks computer when it receives a notification

itsadanshane wrote:

HWTech wrote:

Have you verified the computer is actually asleep? Just because you close the lid or select sleep from the menu, it does not necessarily mean the laptop actually got far enough to lock the laptop.

Yeah, as I said above this will happen hours after selecting sleep from the menu.

That does not mean the laptop has been asleep. Yes it should be asleep, but it may never have reached the sleep stage.

If you put the laptop to sleep & wait a few minutes. What happens if you wake the laptop, does it give you a login screen? If you have TouchID enabled, after the laptop is asleep for several minutes, just lightly touch the TouchID.....do not press on it....does the laptop wake & unlock? If it is really asleep, the laptop should not wake or unlock.

I'm trying to find a way to check the sleep wake history, but on my laptop the events are confusing & not very clear, but I'm also on an Apple Silicon Mac at the moment, perhaps an Intel Mac would be different. I'll try to remember to check next week.

Are you running any anti-virus apps, cleaning/optimizer apps, or third party security software? If so, then they may be causing a problem since they interfere with the normal operation of macOS.

You can try booting into Safe Mode to see if the same thing happens. I don't know if Safe Mode will prevent those notifications from activating, but if you get notifications & the computer remains locked, then you have an answer that some third party software is most likely the problem.

Try creating a new macOS user account. Log out of the main user account & log into the new macOS user account. You will need to configure it so you can trigger a notification to confirm if it has the same issue or if it works as expected. If this works as expected, then something within your main user account is causing it.....either a login item, or a misconfigured setting, or corrupt .plist preference file.