How to stop macOS 26 from waking my system up every hour?

Hi all,


This is driving me nuts!


Every setting related to automatic wakes is turned off, every notification is turned off, automatic Time Machine is turned off.... yet the system wakes up every single hour!


How to get rid of all this?! The system automatically sets invisible wake requests. I remove the scheduled events, and they just keep getting added back.


2025-11-05 01:51:02.290388+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  115    8    powerd: [com.apple.powerd:wakeRequests] Selected RTC wake request: {

    UserVisible = 0;

    appPID = 1056;

    eventtype = wake;

    scheduledby = "com.apple.alarm.user-invisible-com.apple.calaccessd.travelEngine.periodicRefreshTimer";

    time = "2025-11-05 09:02:51 +0000";

}

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290633+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleSMCRTC) SMCRTC: [MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate] 2025/11/5 2:45:26 (0)

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290640+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleSMCRTC) SMCRTC: [MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate] 2025/11/5 2:45:26 (0)

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290644+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: PMRD: MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate 2025/11/5 02:45:26

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290647+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: PMRD: next alarm (MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate) 2025/11/5 02:45:26




MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.1

Posted on Nov 5, 2025 3:06 AM

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Posted on Nov 5, 2025 8:57 AM

What is the concern here? Intel Macs had a Power Nap feature for running background activities when connected to AC power, and it could be disabled. Apple Silicon Macs always 'Power Nap' and you cannot turn it off.


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Regarding the specific process that you've identified, based on the information from Owl-53 you can try Calendar app > Calendar menu > Settings > Alerts and uncheck the Time to Leave option.

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