MacBook Pro Shuts Down After Having Lid Closed for a While

If your Mac doesn't wake when you expect

Your Mac might pause a few seconds before it wakes up. If it doesn't seem to wake at all, check for these possibilities:

• Your screen brightness might be turned down.
• If you're using an external display, your display might be turned off.
• Your Mac might be in safe sleep. To wake from safe sleep, press the power button.
• Check for a sleep indicator light, if applicable, and make sure that your Mac isn't turned off.

If the previous steps don't work

These additional steps may help identify or resolve the issue:

• Reset the SMC.
• Reset NVRAM.
• Disconnect external devices other than your Apple keyboard, mouse, and display. If that resolves the issue, gradually reconnect your devices, testing each time, until you find the device that is interfering with sleep. Then check the documentation that came with the device, or contact the device manufacturer.
• Start up in Safe Mode to see if the issue is related to non-Apple startup items, login items, or kernel extensions.
• Try to isolate the issue by using another user account.

If you still see the issue, contact Apple Support.

Best regards.

Though I have reset the SMC and NVRAM, that has not solved this same issue: I experience a Wake from Sleep crash under High Sierra 10.13 with my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB of RAM only after I close the MacBook Air's lid and the Mac has been sleeping for a while — presumably after the Mac enters Standby/Hibernate mode. When the lid is left open, I can wake from sleep normally. If I close the lid for a length of time, however, my Mac will routinely crash.

I will try to reboot into Safe Boot mode and close the lid over night and will see if it crashes when I open the lid. I'll report back my findings.

I posted this in another thread, and it seems to work toward resolving this issue on MacBooks running 10.13:

It seems that the initial upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra 10.13 might lead to some corruption of the admin account from which the Mac was upgraded. I know it seems as though the issues described in this thread (and others like it) seem to indicate a system-wide power management issue (I know that's what I thought), but it may be corruption of the admin user account that triggers some Wake From Sleep issues. The Wake From Sleep and Wake After Lid Open issues I was experiencing seem to have been resolved (3 days so far, running under 10.13 with a MacBook Air 13-inch, Early 2015) by following these steps provided to me by an Apple Senior Product Specialist (your mileage may vary):

How to Create a New User with Same Home Folder

1. Open System Preferences > Users & Groups

2. Click the lock and enter the admin password, press the ‘+’ to create a new Admin user.

3. Log out.

4. Log into the newly created Admin user.

5. Open System Preferences > Users & Groups > unlock the lock

6. Select the original user > hit the ‘-‘ .

7. When prompted, choose "Don't change the home folder".

- Be sure the customer doesn't accidentally choose anything else or they could lose their data.

8. Once that process completes, open the /Users folder.

- The original home folder should be in this folder with the username(Deleted) format.

9. Remove the (Deleted) portion of the user name so that only the username portion remains.

- For instance, if my user name were AwesomeOPossum it would show AwesomeOPossum(Deleted). Remove (Deleted) so only AwesomeOPossum remains.

10. In System Preferences > Users & Groups, hit the ‘+’ to create another new admin user.

- The Full name should be the customers name.

- The user name should be the exact same as the previous short name (folder name).

- For instance, in this case the user name would be AwesomeOPossum.

11. macOS should prompt that a home folder already exists and ask if you want to associate the new user with the home folder.

12. Choose the closest yes answer available. (Yes, Associate, or whatever is affirmative.)

13. Log out of this user and into the original user and test for the issue.

I'm having the exact same issue! Ever since updating to 10.13 I close the lid and after a while I come back and the computer has shut down and I have Chrome warning that it Chrome wasn't shut down properly and also an Apple warning of an error to report back to Apple, which I obviously send to them.

Definitely a bug in 10.13

I too am having the same issue after the upgrade to 10.13. I noticed in a different forum a recommendation to disconnect all external connections, including the power cable. I tried that this afternoon, and it seems to work, but I will try it again tonight just to be sure.

Prior to this, I have tried all the steps to reset SMC and NVRAM.

My system is MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)

Hi,

Still having the same problem here.

Brought it to Apple in London and they told me that it is a programmed procedure that has been implemented with the new touch bar generation to avoid people leaving the lapton on for a long time(I don’t buy that!!!). The only way to change it is trough the terminal but he could show me how to do it because it was against their policy(I’m quite sure he was lying!).After that he suggested me have a look online and find out this prodcedure which I haven’t found it yet.

Is anyone aware about it? Were them all b*****t?

Many thanks!

Michele

The only way I have found that prevents the Mac from shutting down, rather than remain in sleep mode, is to leave a USB pen drive connected to the Mac when I close the lid. When I do that, closing the lid leaves the computer in sleep mode, rather than shutting down. Not sure why, or how to diagnose this.

May not be helpful, but I have a brand new MBP 13 with touch bar running 10.12.6 (company hasn't allowed 10.13 upgrade yet) and I'm seeing exactly the same problem. May just give up and shut down at the end of the day vs. just shutting the lid like I've done successfully for 3+ years with my MBP 15 (which was an outstanding machine).

Just out of curiosity, are you using Adobe Creative Cloud (startup app and menu bar icon)?

Once I purged my system of CC (which reports suggests leaks memory like a sieve), stability improved and I have not since experienced Wake from Sleep issues.

I am having the same issue. I have a Macbook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015. I tried re-installing the OS, I've even wiped the mac and restored it from a back up and still have the same issue. Has anyone figure out what in the heck is going on? I've only had my macbook for about 2 months now.

Some documentation from Apple on the difference between the Touch Bar and Non-Touch Bar would be helpful. I have a 2017 MBP and a Mid-2014 MBP with the same version of MacOS and the same power settings, yet this only happens on the MBP with the Touch Bar. I have made some progress playing with the pmset command. Try pmset -g to see what your settings are. I've had some success by increasing the value of standbydelay

Same exact issue for me on my brand new 2017 15" MBP with two UCB-C -> Display Port cables feeding two 4k monitors. It seemed to work the first day I got it (Friday), now it's Monday and having this annoying problem. Resetting both SMC and NVRAM did nothing. I have to leave the laptop lid open ajar so it won't go to sleep, which is pretty laughable for a new machine approaching $3k.

On the latest High Sierra, v10.13.3. Please fix this.

Hey guys,

I found out a way to get rid of this problem.

I had downloaded bitdifender after noticing my Mac book going crazy. When I opened the lid with the intension of it having wake up from sleep, it responds with a turn on attempt and shuts down again. And then I would have to press the power button again after which it turns on. It was frustrating.

I installed the the above mentioned Anti Malware app and got rid of all the infected files. Now it works well.

Did you find a solution ? I have a early 2015 13 inch retina and now after leaving it closed overnight it will be turned off in the morning. This started happening after I opened the case to attempt to clean out the fan as it was being noisy. I downloaded Mac fan control app and thats the only to things ive done. Anybody find a solution !?