[1Mar2025] How to prevent MacBook Pro from going to sleep while watching online movie (through some other websites)? It goes to sleep every 10 or 20 mins. It is connected to LG TV and it goes to sleep too. Maddening! I cannot figure out how. Online instructions are too old and outdated. MacOs Sequoia 15.3.1
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.3
I have used Automator for this in past.
I used "Watch Me Do" to record a mouse click every 165 seconds to keep the mac awake.
My mac is set to sleep in 3 minutes, so I chose a pause of 165 seconds which is less than 180 (3 minutes) and have it loop for 200 minutes.
A spinning gear will show in the menu bar for 200 minutes, in this case. If the video is over in a shorter time you can click the gear and stop it from continuing to loop.
System/Desktop & Dock/Shortcuts (at the bottom of the window) and set one of the corners to Disable Screen Saver. When you put your cursor in that corner the screen saver will be disabled.
The mouse click would be recorded as a single click with the mouse click off to the side of the screen so it doesn't distract you from watching movie
Change the Lock Screen settings in System Settings.
+1 That's another option.
How to prevent MacBook Pro from going to sleep every 10 mins while watching online movie?
