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Automatic sleep used to be easy but now it requires a different approach

If you’ve used older macOS versions you probably remember how easy it was to schedule your Mac to sleep or wake up at a specific time. Simply pop open System Preferences, go to Energy Saver and choose the dates and times when you want your Mac to sleep.

Scheduling sleep on macOS Ventura and Sonoma

For some odd reason Apple decided to remove this feature from recent versions of macOS. The functionality is still there under the hood but you just don’t have an easy way to toggle scheduled sleep on and off. It’s still fairly easy to use, the catch is you have to do it using Terminal.

How to schedule sleep on your Mac

• Open Terminal
• Type in the following command: sudo pmset repeat sleep MTWRFSU 18:00:00
  • MTWRFSU refers to days of the week, in this format your Mac will sleep every day of the week at the same time. If you wanted to shedule this only for Monday through Friday, you would use MTWRF
  • 18:00:00 is the time for automatic sleep in 24h format. So with this command your Mac would sleep every day at 6pm.

How to cancel scheduled sleep

• To cancel your sleep schedule use the same command but replace “sleep” with “cancel”
  • sudo pmset repeat cancel MTWRFSU 14:55:00
• To see what’s currently scheduled on your Mac, type in the following command
  • pmset -g sched

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