![]() ![]() Power Nap is enabled on the Energy Saver System Preference pane (Battery Pane in Big Sur)Īm I Wasting Energy or Contributing to Climate Change By Not Shutting Down My Mac? Using the mouse or trackpad to place the cursor in the Hot Corner puts the device to sleep. In the screenshot below, Put Display to Sleep has been selected for the lower right corner of the screen. Click it and a diagram showing the four corners of the primary display appears - each corner can have something assigned to it. In the lower right corner of the preference pane is a button for Hot Corners. Hot Corners are defined in the Desktop & Screen Saver system preference. To make the Mac “go to sleep”, you can select “Apple menu > Sleep” from the menu bar, close the screen on a MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, or move the cursor into what’s called a Hot Corner. Owners of any of the Macs listed above should have Power Nap enabled by default. MacBook Pro (all models with Retina display)ĭue to the nature of Apple’s “always-on” silicon, M1 Macs do not have (or need) the Power Nap feature.MacBook Air (Late 2010 and later – requires OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.2 and later).Most Macs built since the early 2010s support Power Nap: It’s not surprising that the machines seem slow, as the Mac needs to run through all of the maintenance tasks it should have been doing while sleeping. Mac users new and old often say that their Macs are running slowly, and when asked they usually say that they’re shutting down the Mac every night. There’s no need for it to go through the startup procedure, and it has already done all of the maintenance jobs it needs to do, so it’s ready to roll. While your Mac appears to be sleeping, it’s actually doing a lot! The good part of all of this is that when you get back behind the keyboard and you’re ready to start working, your Mac wakes up quickly from sleep and is ready to get to work. ![]()
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