James Wilson7
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Mac OS X

Q: Display sleep on Macbook Pro 2015

The display on my 2015 MBP will not go to sleep according to the settings in the energy saver preference panel. It will go to sleep manually, i.e., when I set one of the corners. Not a big problem but slightly irritating; any ideas?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Feb 2, 2016 6:28 PM

by Allen A,Solvedanswer
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A:

Hi James,

 

 

I understand that, despite having set a delay for your Mac's display to sleep, the display isn't sleeping unless you use a hot corner to activate this function. Fortunately the article linked below details a number of troubleshooting steps that can help get your Mac to put its display to sleep as you set it to.

If your Mac doesn‘t sleep or wake when expected
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204760

 

 

Regards!

Posted on Feb 4, 2016 6:21 AM

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  • by Allen A,Solvedanswer

    Allen A Allen A Feb 4, 2016 6:21 AM in response to James Wilson7
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    Feb 4, 2016 6:21 AM in response to James Wilson7

    Hi James,

     

     

    I understand that, despite having set a delay for your Mac's display to sleep, the display isn't sleeping unless you use a hot corner to activate this function. Fortunately the article linked below details a number of troubleshooting steps that can help get your Mac to put its display to sleep as you set it to.

    If your Mac doesn‘t sleep or wake when expected
    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204760

     

     

    Regards!

  • by Lars-Iver Kruse,

    Lars-Iver Kruse Lars-Iver Kruse Feb 4, 2016 6:30 AM in response to James Wilson7
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    Feb 4, 2016 6:30 AM in response to James Wilson7

    Hi James,

     

    in addition to Allen's post and because you pointed out in your topic line, that especially your display won't sleep:

     

    We were wondering about the same issue when we use a special application for remote control of other systems. In our case, that's TeamViewer. As long as we've at least one remote session open, the Mac's display will not sleep, even if the TeamViewer window with that session is in the background.

     

    One reason for this is the network activity (see Allen's link).

     

    So check whether the behaviour of your MacBook depends on a specific application you use (no sleep when it's running, sleep when not).

     

    Regards, Lars

  • by James Wilson7,

    James Wilson7 James Wilson7 Feb 4, 2016 3:55 PM in response to Allen A
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    Feb 4, 2016 3:55 PM in response to Allen A

    I had an old app running an old Fortran program. It was hidden and I'm not sure how long it had been running; fortunately it did not generate and save any data. when I shut it down the problem with the display disappeared.

     

    Thank you.

  • by Allen A,

    Allen A Allen A Feb 7, 2016 6:07 AM in response to James Wilson7
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    Feb 7, 2016 6:07 AM in response to James Wilson7

    James,

     

    Thanks for the update, and I'm glad to hear that you've got it figured out!

     

    Regards!