What do you feel when you don’t get enough sleep? Exhausted and tired, but what if Mac won’t sleep? the danger is when your Mac is being exhausted for a long time it can develop hardware issues and you might get to spend a lot of money to have it fixed
You might be asking yourself what’s keeping them awake or another problem could be the other way around Mac is sleeping too early. Here are some diagnostics and recommendations for you to try.
Part 1. Why Does Mac Sleep? Is It Important?
Machines like Mac has a feature to sleep and hibernate, sleep is like an energy saver not just to solve some of the energy waste problems this could also help you save some money.
When your Mac is going to sleep it cuts an amount of energy that is consuming and just leaving enough energy to pick up where you left off. While Hibernate, on the other hand, are similar but it would take longer before your Mac will go to hibernate.
Part 2. Why My Mac Doesn’t Go to Sleep?
Why Mac won’t sleep? There might be several reasons what is keeping your Mac awake, please see as follows:
Active Browsers like Chrome or Safari
When you have an opened browser and you have multiple tabs open, one of the websites might be active like running pop-ups in the background, so you have to make sure that all of your tabs are closed.
Check the Activity Monitor
See if there are applications that are active and if there is something that activated the no sleep trigger, Go to Finder > Select Applications > Open Utilities > Launch Activity Monitor.
NVRAM Status
NVRAM or Non-Volatile-Access Memory, just in case that you upgraded your NVRAM and its too strong for your Mac to handle it, this could also be a possibility since NVRAM is working double the power than your Mac can take.
Hardware Problem
If you have experienced Mac is not going to sleep even you close the lid this could be a hardware problem, its time to take your Mac to a technician especially if you don’t have AppleCare, the price can be a bit high to fix the issue.
TIP: A temporary fix could be you can manually long-press the power button of your Mac before closing the lid of your Mac.