Sleep Wake Failure with High Sierra 10.13.2

I use Parallels too and I think its "checking for update" don't cause the problem. Instead of this, every time that my Mac (High Sierra 10.13.5) goes to sleep mode I have to reboot later... and almost every time Parallels was running when the failure happened.

Here is my tuppence of an update. Following a sudden and disappointing disruption of about a month of SWF-free interval on 10.13.5 and the subsequent resurrection of hope, a week ago, with moving to 10.13.6, kindly prompted by jtonn, I have been without SWF events since. I shall deem this a miracle, since no reasonable explanation has been put forward and my iMac has been running the same applications all the time since the beginning of this sorry saga. Just hope this is not yet another disposable miracle.

I found it helpful to quit all of the apps at night. Then it doesn't have the sleep mode issue so bad. I also just started turning off the computer every night - that really solved the problem.

For those of us that use CAD- the problem is CAD doesn't upgrade their software as fast as apple is creating new operating systems. SO be careful..

Many people have tried the reinstall route and I have yet to see anyone say it fixes the reboot during sleep problem.

I have tried a fresh install i.e. wipe my disk and reinstall no help.

Yes I absolutely agree. I have tried reinstalling HS already and the same problems just continue. The only way forward is to go back unfortunately.

I agree with you on this. I too installed beta 4 and have no sleep wake failure ever since. I hope Apple finally crushed this nasty bug.

High Sierra 10.13.4

The problems seem to have cropped back up after the steps I had listed above. Would be very curious if disabling "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" helps at all...

I have the problem with a Late 2012 MacMini. The only way that I can wake is via the power button on the back of the unit. Keyboard/mouse no longer wakes the machine.

What's interesting is that I have had some services recently that were actually preventing sleep, so I guess my problem is reversed. LOL

I can tell you that it seems to be fully sleeping (I've seen some threads mention that machine fans are staying on, etc). In the past, my external USB devices would sometimes remain powered up, but all my LEDs for external sound cards and HDD are confirmed to be off. The only USB that remains on is the MacMini. Although, now that I think about it it may not pulse and only be dim (hence not fully sleeping).

Hi,

My 2016 MBP and my 2017 iMac have no issue with High Sierra.

My daughter's late 2012 iMac reboots for no reason while it is supposed to sleep.

And this absolutely stupid chime wakes her up.

(btw if anyone could suggest a good way to definitely get rid of the chime the sleep wake failure bug would more acceptable ... Edit: Onyx seems to be able to turn off the lame boot chime.)

I spoke to soon my iMac just rebooted so nothing has worked so far, the fact that Apple told someone to revert to Sierra maybe an indication that they know about the problem and there is no easy fix at this point.

I have the same problem since the 10.13.2 update... waking from sleep has a very high chance of crashing. I have the Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015).

None of these suggestions worked for me:

1. resetting PRAM and VRAM

2. resetting SMC

3. starting in safe mode

4. repairing with firstAid

5. formatting the disk and reinstalling macOS 10.13.2

The thing that makes me sad is that we can't go back to 10.13.1 or 10.13.0. Or can we?

This is a tragedy, first Apple struggle with the root backdoor login, and now this...

I only use Mac, but now consider Windows.

Can someone please tell Apple to rehire thaws test engineers again and get serious about business?

T9

Just love how I get woken up at random times with this ridiculous downgrade High Sierra 10.13.2 I waited 4 months to upgrade and now issues with my MBP and whatever the recent update on Iphone 6 Plus. Really thinking of going back to Windows and an Android phone as this is like the Windows Vista nightmares all over again! Disappointing and frustrating.

I just recently bought a new Mac mini, and I am also facing a lot of sleep issues with it. It does not automatically go to sleep accordingly to the Energy Saver schedule. Instead, the dialog box saying that the system will go to sleep soon just stays on the screen forever.

Additionally, when I set the Mac to sleep using the Apple menu, it will wake up every one or two hours afterwards for a short time, start up all my external hard drives and then go back to sleep. It is really annoying and also not too wealthy for the hardware I think. I even tried unmounting all external drives before activating sleep mode. But to no avail – the hard drives still spin up when the Mac awakes.

"Power Nap" and "Wake for network access" are both switched off.