Why? MacBook Air Prompts Password Sometimes Fast After Opening & Sometimes Delayed

Amie

Mac Convert for Life
I have my MacBook Air to prompt for password upon awakening. I have noticed that sometimes it prompts me for my password immediately after I wake it...... and other times it takes a while or I have to press a key to make the prompt come up. Why is this?
 
When it's asleep for long enough it goes into hibernation mode to conserve more battery power. This means saving your session state to the SSD and powering off just about everything. Then when you open it, it powers everything back on, and reads the saved state off the SSD. This takes a little longer than normal wake-up.

I think you can customize this in System Preferences > Energy Saver (not sure, though, since my MacBook Pro doesn't use this feature).
 
I have my MacBook Air to prompt for password upon awakening. I have noticed that sometimes it prompts me for my password immediately after I wake it...... and other times it takes a while or I have to press a key to make the prompt come up. Why is this?

System preferences/security. Under general tab (1st tab) uncheck "require password after sleep or screensaver begins".
 
Amie, if you want you can revert to the older style simple sleep method and at the same time save yourself a large chunk of disk space (size=your installed memory).
Check out this link one of many, for assistance.
 
When it's asleep for long enough it goes into hibernation mode to conserve more battery power. This means saving your session state to the SSD and powering off just about everything. Then when you open it, it powers everything back on, and reads the saved state off the SSD. This takes a little longer than normal wake-up.

I think you can customize this in System Preferences > Energy Saver (not sure, though, since my MacBook Pro doesn't use this feature).

Thanks, Mikuro! :)

djackmac said:
System preferences/security. Under general tab (1st tab) uncheck "require password after sleep or screensaver begins".

But I want it to prompt me for a password. I set it up that way. My question was just why does it take some times longer than others to get that prompt, which Mikuro has answered.

jbarley said:
Amie, if you want you can revert to the older style simple sleep method and at the same time save yourself a large chunk of disk space (size=your installed memory).
Check out this link one of many, for assistance.

Thank you! And guess what I found after doing a little more research? The following information:
"By default after an hour the new MBAs save contents to flash and power down. That's what gives them their 30 day standby time. I don't see any advantage with changing the new system."

YAY!!! :cool:
 
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