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Keeping your Mac awake, explained
Practical guides on why macOS sleeps during long work, the built-in commands that stop it, and how to keep your Mac awake without babysitting a Terminal.
Schedule Mac sleep and wake automatically
Set your Mac to sleep, wake, or power on at fixed times with pmset - recurring schedules, one-off events, and how to view and cancel them.
Read more →Why won't my Mac stay asleep? Find what wakes it
Your Mac wakes by itself or won't stay asleep. Read the wake reason with pmset -g log, find the process with pmset -g assertions, and fix the usual culprits.
Read more →Wake your Mac on a schedule for backups
Have your Mac wake itself at night, run a Time Machine or script backup, then sleep - pmset schedules the wake, AwakeMate makes sure it finishes.
Read more →caffeinate: keep your Mac awake from Terminal
A practical guide to macOS's built-in caffeinate command - every flag, the best way to wrap a long-running command, and when an app is the better call.
Read more →Why does my Mac sleep during long tasks?
Builds, renders, downloads and backups get cut short when your Mac sleeps. Here is what actually triggers idle sleep on macOS, and the reliable ways to stop it.
Read more →pmset: control Mac sleep from the command line
pmset is the macOS tool for power management settings. How to inspect sleep, disable it safely, and why caffeinate is usually the better choice.
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