All computers have options and features to save power and/or put to sleep. Both Windows and Mac system computers have hibernate mode, you can enable and disable hibernation in Windows whenever you want. The same way you can do it on your Mac computer.
By enabling hibernate mode on your Mac, you will be able to save energy on your Mac, although the options that these computers have do not include the possibility of activating hibernate mode in the shutdown menu as in Windows.
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The only option that will be displayed in the menu will be the Sleep dome that these computers have in the system. To do this, we bring you this article where we will be presenting you how to activate this function.
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- How to turn standby mode on or off on Mac?
- From Terminal settings
- What is the way to configure the standby mode features?
- From the economizer
How to turn standby mode on or off on Mac?
When the standby mode is activated, certain devices of this brand will not be affected and you will not be able to enter this mode, in the case of Mac computers, this mode cannot be activated if it is plugged in.
For MacBooks, the standby mode will not be activated if an external device is in operation, an example of this is USB devices, SD Cards or Ethernet or Thunderbolt , before the use of Bluetooth with which we can connect any device , it will also be blocking this standby mode.
From Terminal settings
But if what you want is to configure the hibernate mode of the Mac, you must first enter the Terminal to make it possible. For this, go to the Applications area of the Mac, after this to ‘utilities’, and that is where you will see the ‘Terminal’ option. Within this option, we must follow the following steps.
- You will place in the Terminal the command pmset -g | grep standby. And we will see a series of numbers that will appear that will be indicating the waiting time of the Mac for standby mode
- In case you want to modify the standby time, use the command ‘sudo pmset –a standbydelay #’ and you will change the ‘#’ with the time you want this mode to appear.
- With the commands ‘sudo pmset –a standby 0’ and ‘sudo pmset –a standby 1’ you can modify the standby mode of Mac computers, since you can disable and enable the mode whenever you want, but we do not recommend it for devices of MacBooks, since it has settings such as putting and setting an alarm for your remindersthat can oppose the standby mode
What is the way to configure the standby mode features?
In Mac computers, we can configure the characteristics of the standby mode for better functionality in this function , with this we mean that you can make better use of this function so that your computer has a better management in its systems and you can save more energy thanks to this mode
These computers will enter standby mode not when you want, but in specific situations, but will not be in this mode if external devices such as external hard drives are in use. But if in case you want to configure the sleep and wake settings you can do it to enter sleep at certain times
- Enter the Apple menu and go to System preferences, in this option go to Battery. In this option, you will see various operations that you can perform for standby mode.
- One of the ones that you can use is the‘ turn off the screen After’ , with this option you can modify the time that the computer turns off the screen after a period of inactivity, defining the time that you will see right there and be able to use it.
- Another option that we will see is the ‘Power Adapter’ you can modify so that the Mac does not go to sleep when the screen is off, for this, you must activate the option ‘Prevent the Mac from going to sleep automatically when the screen is turned off’
- A good option is also ‘ Put hard drives to sleep when possible’. With this you can save the energy that these components consume.
From the economizer
Another very good option to modify the standby mode configuration is to enter the energy saver option that Mac computers have. You must first enter ‘System Preferences’ and then the ‘Economizer’ option.
Here inside you will see the options that you will have to modify and with this you will be able to enable and disable each time you want the standby mode.
