My wife's MacBook is warm when using it, which is to be expected, but when it gets put it to sleep it stays warm (even feels hot sometimes) and I can hear the hard drive spinning occasionally. This does not seem right. Why would it do this in "energy saving" mode?
MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)
...and I can hear the hard drive spinning occasionally.
Macbook Pros have not used mech hard drives since 2012 so that could be the fan which, in sleep, should be off.
In many Macbook Pros, magnetic switches sense the lid position and invoke sleep mode. If something magnetic is nearby, that could cause the computer to not be properly sleeping.
If the battery is swelling, that can prevent the lid from closing enough to trigger the magnetic switch. Battery swelling can be evidenced by:
LuckyLion21 wisely mentions other apps and processes. Are you running any anti-virus or so-called "cleaning" apps? Private network software (VPNs) can be problematic as well.
A sleeping computer is not "off" but in standby mode. The macOS has run automatic self-maintenance scripts for 24 years and those happen in the small hours of the morning. However, these run only for minutes and have never caused battery drain or heating on my Macbook Pros.
...and I can hear the hard drive spinning occasionally.
Macbook Pros have not used mech hard drives since 2012 so that could be the fan which, in sleep, should be off.
In many Macbook Pros, magnetic switches sense the lid position and invoke sleep mode. If something magnetic is nearby, that could cause the computer to not be properly sleeping.
If the battery is swelling, that can prevent the lid from closing enough to trigger the magnetic switch. Battery swelling can be evidenced by:
LuckyLion21 wisely mentions other apps and processes. Are you running any anti-virus or so-called "cleaning" apps? Private network software (VPNs) can be problematic as well.
A sleeping computer is not "off" but in standby mode. The macOS has run automatic self-maintenance scripts for 24 years and those happen in the small hours of the morning. However, these run only for minutes and have never caused battery drain or heating on my Macbook Pros.
Thank you for those tips. The only apps that are typically open are a browser or Quick Books and there are no external devices except an apple mouse.
Something I just noticed since I posted the question is that "System Data" is taking up almost ALL of the room on the hard drive yet there's no way to see what that is (no information icon). Could this be causing the hard drive to run all the time? How do you reduce the size of this, it seems ridiculously large.
MacBook Pro is hot when in sleep mode
