On Feb 2, 2024, at 9:43 AM, mary via groups.io <mkheadley80503@...> wrote:
When I go to System Settings > Battery > Options button, I'm confronted with a dialog box that says "Wake for network access. While sleeping, your Mac can receive incoming network traffic, such as iMessages and other iCloud updates, to keep your applications up to date" and then I have to choose between these 3 options: Only on Power Adapter, Always, and Never. So which would I choose?
It is none of the above.
Here is a post from Ben Rosenthal on another list:
"There seems to be a lot of confusion on this thread about where to find the ¡°hard disk sleep¡± setting on various Macs. I think this is largely because Apple has been inconsistent about this setting among Mac configurations.
"Here is Apple¡¯s support document
related to Energy Saver preferences on a Mac. I recommend perusing the article for different versions of macOS to understand how things have changed.
"For macOS Catalina and earlier, all Macs have these settings in a pane called Energy Saver. In subsequent versions, Apple gives laptops a pane called Battery and retains Energy Saver only for desktop Macs. You¡¯ll see the article name change when you look at newer versions.
"If you¡¯re looking at the Big Sur or Monterey version of the macOS User Guide, try searching for <battery preferences>, for example, and you¡¯ll find separate articles for Battery preferences on a Mac notebook and Power Adapter preferences on a Mac notebook. If you look at the Ventura or Sonoma version, the former article is called Battery settings on a Mac notebook and the latter doesn¡¯t seem to exist at all¡ªand I can verify that there is no such Power Adapter section on such Macs.
"Note, too, that in the shift to System Settings in Ventura and later, Apple broke apart Energy Saver/Battery preferences and moved some settings to the Lock Screen pane. This is where you¡¯ll find settings for when to start the screen saver and turn off the display when inactive.
"Regarding the Put hard disks to sleep when possible setting, I think you¡¯ll consistently find it in Energy Saver on desktop Macs. On laptops, its existence seems to be less consistent.
"According to this article
about saving energy on a Mac, you might find it in the Battery preference pane of Monterey with a separate toggle for Battery and Power Adapter settings; it may be in Battery settings of Ventura and Sonoma when you click Options at the bottom; and it may be missing from Battery preferences in Big Sur. Also, it should be on all Macs running Catalina or earlier. However, on both Intel and Apple Silicon MacBook Pro models running Sonoma 14.3, this setting is nowhere to be found."
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice
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