Turning off "Use Classic SMC Key (Intel)" on Intel Macbook Pro prevents sleep #132

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opened 2025-12-30 02:19:04 +01:00 by adam · 2 comments

adam commented 2025-12-30 02:19:04 +01:00

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Originally created by @akhats on GitHub (Mar 19, 2021).

Truning of "Use Classic SMC Key (Intel)" option on my 2018 MBP prevents it from going to sleep. pmset -g shows Sleep Prevented by "com.davidwernhart.Helper. Turning On this option let's MPB sleep as intended., i.e, at least pmset -g does not show Sleep Prevented by com.davidwernhart.Helper.

Originally created by @akhats on GitHub (Mar 19, 2021). Truning of "Use Classic SMC Key (Intel)" option on my 2018 MBP prevents it from going to sleep. `pmset -g` shows `Sleep Prevented by "com.davidwernhart.Helper`. Turning On this option let's MPB sleep as intended., i.e, at least `pmset -g `does not show `Sleep Prevented by com.davidwernhart.Helper`.

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adam commented 2025-12-30 02:19:05 +01:00

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@MatthiasKerbl commented on GitHub (Mar 20, 2021):

Hi @akhats,
thank you for reporting this issue, we are also aware of it. We will try to solve it differently and will fix it in a future update when it's ready.

Matthias

@MatthiasKerbl commented on GitHub (Mar 20, 2021): Hi @akhats, thank you for reporting this issue, we are also aware of it. We will try to solve it differently and will fix it in a future update when it's ready. Matthias

adam commented 2025-12-30 02:19:05 +01:00

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@MatthiasKerbl commented on GitHub (Jul 5, 2021):

Hi @akhats,

We have just released a new version of AlDente which should solve the issue you encountered.
You can find the new version here: https://github.com/davidwernhart/AlDente/releases

@MatthiasKerbl commented on GitHub (Jul 5, 2021): Hi @akhats, We have just released a new version of AlDente which should solve the issue you encountered. You can find the new version here: https://github.com/davidwernhart/AlDente/releases

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Reference: starred/AlDente-Battery_Care_and_Monitoring#132