Putting your Mac to sleep turns off the monitor and turns off the hard drive. This can save energy and give the computer a much needed break. However, putting your computer to sleep will prevent updates, virus scans, scheduled backups, etc. from occurring. If you need to have certain things happen when you are away from the computer but don’t want a sleeping computer to prevent them from happening, you can actually schedule specific times for your Mac to go to sleep.
- Open System Preferences. Click Energy Saver.
2. Click schedule at the bottom right of the window.
- Select your scheduling options. As you can see, you can also schedule your computer to restart, turn off, or power on at certain times as well.
