Prevent macOS from going to sleep

Written byPhuoc Nguyen

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macOS

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22 Mar, 2021

By default, macOS goes to sleep if it hasn't been used for a certain amount of time. However, there are cases we want to prevent it from happening such as during a presentation, downloading a big file.

macOS provides a command to do that:

$ caffeinate

Pressing ctrl + C will bring it back to the normal mode.

The command also supports the time parameter. It indicates that macOS won't enter the sleep mode after a given number of seconds. For example, the command below asks macOS to awake in the next 10 minutes.

$ caffeinate -u -t 600

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