Mac always prompts unexpected restarts when used the next day

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As a test

Turn On "Prevent automatic sleeping when display is off"

Set "Turn display off when inactive" to 5 or 10 minutes

Leave the Mac On and only allow the display(s) to turn Off when inactive

Do not manually Sleep using the Apple Drop Down menu

Shut Down the Mac when away for a day or more

There are two very different approaches, especially when CleanMyMac aka BrickMyMac is installed and used on the computer

>>  Launchd: /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.macpaw.CleanMyMac5.Agent.plist <<

One approach, is to completely remove this application and hope for the best

This does not always work to your expectations

The other approach >>

Start Over from Scratch 

Heavy Handed ? - Yes

Effective in removing CleanMyMac ? - Yes 

CleanMyMac , aka “ BrickMyMac “

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Un-Like Microsoft Windows, which does have “ Disk Cleanup “ and “ Defrag “ as part of their Operating System 

Apple does not  

For Apple Silicon computer >> Use Disk Utility to erase a Mac with Apple silicon.

Always make a Time Machine Backup  before  proceeding 

Emphasis on User Account Only

If going this route - I suggest Not using Startup Assist to migrate everything back.

This will probably Re-Introduce (CleanMyMac , aka “ BrickMyMac “) back into the Operating System 

WYFANG wrote:

My Mac experienced a kernel panic with the log showing: "watchdog timeout: no checkins from watchdogd in 94 seconds", and the process involved was ChatGPT. The system version is macOS 15.5 (24G84), running on Apple Silicon (Darwin 24.6.0).

<Log.log>

hmmm... is this a one off panic, I would ignore it unless it repeats.

re: watchdog

last started kext at 439888484: com.apple.driver.AppleActuatorDriver 8440.1 (addr 0xfffffe001d573490, size 7257) loaded kexts: com.apple.driver.AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver

note—OS version: 24G84 this macOS 15.6

you can see this from the >About This Mac> see below the serial number for the macOS v.

for repeat panic I would present this to Apple engineers for a look see

"AppleActuatorDriver" a software component, likely a kernel extension or driver, within the macOS, that controls and manages the physical actuators present in Apple devices.

"AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver" is a driver in macOS that handles Human Interface Device events, specifically those from the built-in keyboard and trackpad on MacBooks

Kernel Panics are predominately caused by hardware faults or faulty third-party kernel extensions.

Learn what to do if your computer restarts or shuts down unexpectedly, or you get a message that your computer restarted or shut down because of a problem.

If your Mac restarted because of a problem - Apple Support

WYFANG wrote:

I used App Cleaner & Uninstaller to remove it. My computer has too much data, so I’ll leave it like this for now. If I were to format it, it would mean a huge amount of recovery work for me if I don’t use migration.

Choices have consequences / repercussions

They may not appear immediately but they will eventually catchup with the computer, in time

If you can live with your choice ? Proceed

The computer will never be the same once CMM has been installed and used on this machine

Owl-53 wrote:

Un-Like Microsoft Windows, which does have “ Disk Cleanup “ and “ Defrag “ as part of their Operating System 

PS: Defragmentation is a concept from hard disks, and not all that useful with SSD storage. Defragmentation was a means to compensate for incremental file growth and the very slow access and seek times inherent with moving the read-write heads and waiting for the rotating storage to all arrive together at the necessary data, while the equivalent of access and seek times are inconsequential on solid-state storage.

Thank you for the insights

It has been a long time since using any MS Windows machines since about 2007

Thought it might be relevant in that Apple does not offer such functionality as Standalone application and part of the OS

Have a great day

An aside to all this

Noticed my ditty was Upvoted twice

This is the second time I have noticed this

Once here and once from another user

Normally a 2 upvote on the same response gets the added moniker " Top rated etc "

Not so here

Have you noticed this too

den.thed wrote:

I think that one of the votes, needs to come from the Author.

The hard reality of all this

This is only a placeholder that has very little impact on the end result apart from maybe being influencer

Owl-53 wrote:

This is only a placeholder that has very little impact on the end result apart from maybe being influencer

Which suggests, that the moniker and boot to the top, requires some devine intervention.

den.thed wrote:

Owl-53 wrote:

This is only a placeholder that has very little impact on the end result apart from maybe being influencer

Which suggests, that the moniker and boot to the top, requires some devine intervention.

More so Karma

We seem to have lost OP

Though, do hope they will see and comprehend so of what has been offered in relations to BrickMyMac aka CleanMyMac

+1

I wonder if it has to due with the not logged in awarding of a thumbs up?