I am desperately attempting to determine how you can get my 2019 iMac working macOS Ventura to remain asleep once I put it to sleep. (Every time it wakes up by itself, numerous lights blink on and exhausting drives spin up, inflicting sufficient gentle and sound to disturb my sleep.)
I’ve turned off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wake for community entry, Wake for Notifications, and quite a lot of different settings advisable by the app Sleep Help.
Nonetheless, the pc nonetheless periodically wakes up, and looking out on the output in pmset -g log
I see the next:
2025-05-01 01:42:52 -0400 Assertions PID 119(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "PM configd - Anticipate System enumeration" 00:00:00 id:0x0xd00008623 (System: DeclUser SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp)
2025-05-01 01:42:52 -0400 DarkWake DarkWake from Regular Sleep (CDN) : because of XHC2 XHC1/ Utilizing AC (Cost:0%) 45 secs
2025-05-01 01:42:52 -0400 WakeDetails DriverReason:XHC1 - DriverDetails:
2025-05-01 01:42:52 -0400 HibernateStats hibmode=3 standbydelaylow=86400 standbydelayhigh=86400 42
2025-05-01 01:42:52 -0400 WakeTime WakeTime: 12.265 sec
2025-05-01 07:08:24 -0400 Assertions PID 119(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.wakeschedule" 00:00:00 id:0x0xd00009024 (System: DeclUser SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp)
2025-05-01 07:08:29 -0400 Assertions PID 119(powerd) TimedOut InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.wakeschedule" 00:00:05 id:0x0xd00009024 (System: DeclUser BGTask SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp)
2025-05-01 07:08:34 -0400 DarkWake DarkWake from Regular Sleep (CDN) : because of RTC/Upkeep Utilizing AC (Cost:0%) 0 secs
2025-05-01 07:08:34 -0400 WakeDetails DriverReason:XHC1 - DriverDetails:
2025-05-01 07:08:34 -0400 HibernateStats hibmode=3 standbydelaylow=86400 standbydelayhigh=86400 44
2025-05-01 07:08:34 -0400 WakeTime WakeTime: 11.226 sec
2025-05-01 09:00:11 -0400 Assertions PID 119(powerd) TimedOut InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.acwakelinger" 01:51:36 id:0x0xd00009037 (System: DeclUser BGTask SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp)
2025-05-01 09:00:11 -0400 Assertions Abstract- (System: DeclUser BGTask kDisp) Utilizing AC
2025-05-01 09:00:11 -0400 DarkWake DarkWake from Regular Sleep (CDN) : because of RTC/Upkeep Utilizing AC (Cost:0%) 0 secs
2025-05-01 09:00:11 -0400 WakeDetails DriverReason:XHC1 - DriverDetails:
2025-05-01 09:00:11 -0400 HibernateStats hibmode=3 standbydelaylow=86400 standbydelayhigh=86400 45
2025-05-01 09:00:11 -0400 WakeTime WakeTime: 11.221 sec
As close to as I can inform, the one actual clue from these log entries is XHC1
which factors to a USB gadget linked to that USB controller. This embody quite a lot of completely different gadgets, together with the built-in FaceTime digital camera, a keyboard and mouse, and exterior exhausting drives.
Is there any strategy to inform exactly which gadget it’s that triggered the get up?