It may only take fifteen minutes to do a lot of this stuff. Now it doesn't mean it's going to be on all night long performing tasks and maintenance. When it goes to sleep it gets the chance to perform these tasks.
HOW TO SHUT DOWN PROGRAMS ON MAC MAC
If you have a desktop Mac in your home, like an iMac, you can just walk away and let it go to sleep or use a hot corner to turn the display off.
If you have a MacBook, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air just close the lid and it goes to sleep. You don't even have to actually choose Sleep. So what you want to do instead is choose Sleep. So it's either going to try and perform some of them while you're trying to use your Mac as well or it's never going to get around to doing them which is going to slowdown your Mac. Then you start it up and you expect your Mac to be fast and responsive and do all this stuff but you haven't let it perform these maintenance tasks. It's doing this while you're not there.īut if you shutdown your Mac it doesn't get a chance to do it. A lot of power is used by your screen anyway which is off. Like, for instance, index the files so you can do searches, perform backups, lots of different things going on in the background that it does in a very low power mode, it's not using very much power at all. There's all sorts of things that your Mac does.
Maybe even prolong the life of your Mac.īut in fact what you're doing is you're preventing your Mac from performing some very simple, basic, everyday maintenance tasks that it's supposed to do while you're not using it. Choosing Shut Down you may think is a good idea when you're finished using your Mac. What I'm talking about is shutting down your Mac. Video Transcript: So if you're new to Mac there's something you're doing, perhaps every single day, that you shouldn't really be doing. Check out A Beginner’s Guide To Whether To Shut Down or Sleep Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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