Mac Mini Restarting After Going to Sleep

Sleep is unnecessary and should be disabled. Shut for long absences/idle overnights (i.e. do not manual-sleep), and for regular operation, use the settings exactly as shown below, should fix.

PhotoDude95 wrote:

Hi there, I appreciate your response. Why should sleep be disabled?

Because the latest macOS versions are having issues with computer sleep mode.

Some systems panic and force a restart, others wake up unresponsive.

As a test:

Turn on "Prevent automatic sleeping when display is off" and only allow the display to turn off.

Leave the Mac ON and allow the display to turn OFF, then shut down for longer periods of non-use.

Sending feedback directly to Apple may help.

Feedback - Mac mini - Apple

Feedback - macOS - Apple

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Personally, I just use Lock Screen and let it run 24/7. Reason I let it run when not using it directly is it is set up to do a lot of scheduled tasks like backups and is also used as a home data and media server and backup for my other devices plus a lot of OS self maintenance can take place during that idle time. Also, while it is idle, the new "M" series Macs draw very little power.

Now, if I am going away for a couple days or more I do power it down.

Looks like that did it for me!

APPLE MacOS DEVELOPERS: PLEASE FIX ASAP! ...Users should not have to disable features in the OS (settings) in order to keep kernel errors ("panics") from happening like this

It’s unnecessary. Shut for long absences/idle overnights (i.e. do not manual-sleep).

No, that’s your unverifiable opinion (of course you have a right to it). Fact is, it’s totally unnecessary.