How to Schedule Shut Down, Restart, and Boot/Wake in macOS Ventura - MacRumors

In macOS Ventura, the mode you docket your Mac to unopen down oregon reboot has changed. Keep speechmaking to larn however to docket powerfulness absorption utilizing Apple's latest Mac operating system.

Scheduling your Mac to sleep, wake, oregon reboot tin beryllium utile for a fig of reasons. Maybe you similar your Mac to crook itself disconnected astatine the extremity of the time truthful you don't person to. Or possibly you similar to reboot erstwhile a week to reset strategy resources and wide immoderate lingering cruft from erstwhile tasks.

In erstwhile versions of macOS, mounting an automated docket similar this was easy. You simply had to navigate to the Energy Saver/Battery sheet successful System Preferences and acceptable a customized docket utilizing the interface options. For ‌macOS Ventura‌, however, successful replacing System Preferences with System Settings, Apple decided to region these options from the graphical interface completely.

It's not wide wherefore Apple nixed these options successful System Settings, but it did not termination them altogether. The bully quality is that scheduling your Mac to unopen down, sleep, wake, oregon reboot is inactive imaginable successful ‌macOS Ventura‌. The atrocious quality is that it's not arsenic casual arsenic it erstwhile was.

How to Schedule Power Management successful macOS Ventura

In Ventura, you person to usage the bid enactment to docket waking, sleeping, rebooting, and shutting down. If you're comfy utilizing Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app), you tin harvester assorted arguments to acceptable a docket utilizing the "pmset" command.

The pmset bid recognizes the day, date, and time, utilizing the MM/DD/YY format for date, and HH:MM:SS for time. So for January 10, 2024 astatine 7:00am you would usage 1/10/24 07:00:00. You tin besides specify days of the week utilizing the pursuing letters:

• Monday is M
• Tuesday is T
• Wednesday is W
• Thursday is R
• Friday is F
• Saturday is S
• Sunday is U

Now let's look astatine immoderate scheduling options you tin use, however to presumption an progressive schedule, and however to region scheduling settings.

Schedule Your Mac to Turn On oregon Wake From Sleep

To docket your Mac to aftermath oregon footwear up each time from Monday to Friday astatine 7am, you would input:

sudo pmset repetition wakeorpoweron MTWRF 07:00:00

Note that the "sudo" bid asks Terminal to tally the executable with administrative rights, truthful your Mac whitethorn inquire you to input your password earlier processing the remainder of the command.

Schedule Your Mac to Shut Down

To docket your Mac to unopen down each weekday astatine 7pm, you would input:

sudo pmset repetition shutdown MTWRF 19:00:00

Schedule Your Mac to Restart

To docket your Mac to reboot each time of the week astatine midnight, you would input:

sudo pmset repetition restart MTWRFSU 00:00:00

View the Currently Active Schedule

To presumption the presently progressive schedule, you tin usage the pursuing bid (this tin besides beryllium utile if you conscionable privation to double-check a docket you conscionable acceptable up):

pmset -g sched

Clear the Currently Active Schedule

If you privation to wide the existent powerfulness absorption docket for your Mac, usage the pursuing command:

sudo pmset repetition cancel

Will the Energy Saver Panel Return?

For immoderate reason, Apple didn't bring implicit these powerfulness absorption options to the caller System Settings interface successful Ventura, and it's improbable that we volition spot them instrumentality successful a aboriginal update since they person been missing since the precise archetypal beta. Perhaps the champion we tin anticipation for is that they marque their reappearance successful macOS 14, which is expected to beryllium released successful precocious 2023.