Across age of outlet of Mac OS X and macOS , Apple offered a power - scheduling feature in the Energy Saver , Battery , or similar office across System Preferences . You could put a time of day for your Mac to begin up ( or awake , if catch some Z’s ) or shut down . That time could be set to every day , every weekday , every weekend 24-hour interval , or a given day of the week .
With the dismission of macOS 13 Ventura , the port to those features evaporate . Were too few user making use of them ? Were they irrelevant with the current energy efficiency of modern desktops and displays and the predominance of laptop sales agreement ? It ’s unknown .
( If you use a UPS , or uninterruptible power supply , to provide emergency backup king to your Mac in the event of a mogul outage and have it connected via USB to your Mac , the UPS options remain available by clickingUPS OptionsinSystem options > Energy Saver . )
This Ventura removal results in two stipulation for current Mac users :
Apple fortunately only removed the graphical user port – it prevent the rudimentary hardware feature and support in place , accessible through the command line in theTerminalapp , which is in Applications > Utilities . The statement is calledpmset , and it requires “ superuser ” privilege to make modification . ( You must be access to a macOS account that has decision maker privileges active . Terminal prompts you to enter the executive password for your account after strike Return following a superuser command . )
If you need to clear out a agenda you set before Ventura , enter the following :
sudo pmset repeat cancel
This may cancel preferences used by apps like Carbon Copy Cloner and other software that can offer to come alive your Mac to do backups and similar bodily function . To check those schedule before running the above statement , enter :
pmset -g sched
macOS allow for a list of entries that may require rendering . For example :
[ 0 ] wake at 03/06/2023 21:59:40 by ‘ com.bombich.ccchelper’[1 ] wake at 03/07/2023 00:10:40 by ‘ com.bombich.ccchelper’[2 ] wakeorpoweron at 03/06/2023 09:45:22 by ‘ com.getchannels.dvr’[3 ] wakeorpoweron at 03/06/2023 19:26:00 by ‘ com.getchannels.dvr’[4 ] wakeorpoweron at 03/07/2023 09:48:00 by ‘ com.getchannels.dvr ’
In the above , the list shows forthcoming events associated with low - level files associate with apps.com.bombich.ccchelperis part of Bombich Software ’s Carbon Copy Cloner.com.getchannels.dvris part of the Channels DVR computer software .
you’re able to rig schedules from the statement line , too . If you want to enable a closure schedule , say Tuesday to Saturday at 11 pm :
sudo pmset repeat shutdown TWRFS 23:00:00
In the above , the days of the week are clustered , and the time has to be specified as a 24 - hour clock launching . ( The cock has you set 24-hour interval of the week with the observe uppercase letter : Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , thuRsday , Friday , Saturday , and sUnday . )
At a Terminal prompt , you may typeman pmset(or clickthis linkon a Mac ) and read further details for more elaborated schedules and options .
This Mac 911 article is in response to a question give in by Macworld reader Joseph .
We also address this subject inHow to set the mogul scheduler that disappeared in macOS Ventura .
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