I’ve had my MacBook Pro a few years now. It’s an M1 with 16gb ram. It’s been acting weird when it comes to the screensaver activating. As in, it never comes on. I’ve adjusted my settings, and it still won’t work. The only thing that makes the screensaver act normal is a reboot, but it’ll only work once.
Anyone have any idea?
A lot of Windows users moving to macOS leave apps running due to just clicking on the red button to close the window.
Check to make sure you don’t have an app running that is keeping the computer active, even in the background.
e.g. some data syncing apps, navigation device connections, wake-on-lan enabled with an active network-reliant app running
Use Activity Monitor in the /applications/utilities folder to explore all the stuff running.
Interesting! Thank you, I will check that.
There is also this app, if you prefer to make clicking on the red x file quit a program: http://carsten-mielke.com/redquits.html
Create a new user profile, log in to this test user and see if the issue still happens. This can help you with the troubleshooting.
Ah, ok will do! Thanks!
Have you checked the system log in console.app and/or run EtreCheck?
I haven’t had that issue on my M1 MBP, although I have had fast user switching go to a beachball and require a force reboot.
No, I’m fairly new to the Mac. This is my first one after 20ish years on PC.
Can you direct me to a how-to or something online so I can follow it tomorrow?
Ah; best thing to do is drop a note in the Apple Support Forum.
Personally, I haven’t used a screensaver in over a decade; I just have energy saver settings set to turn the screen off after 3 minutes of inactivity; separately, I set it to require login after 5 minutes.
Oooh ok! I’ll do that.
Well, my display won’t turn off like it used to either.
Hmm… that’s odd. Definitely worth checking the system log, but you may not be able to tell much from that.
Are you using the new huge built in Screensavers that you have to download first, and if so which one?
That was the issue! I changed it to a basic SS and it’s working again! Thank you :)
I wonder what could possibly be up with that one. They haven’t fixed it yet because apple, but what is wrong with it?
I wish they fix it, it’s such a cool screensaver.
Yeah, the old school Mac one. Looks like e-ink.
That one fails constantly on my M4 Pro Mini. Honestly glad it’s not just me.
Oh wow, that’s good to know. I’ll change up my screensaver and see if that fixes my issue.
