Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Tahoe
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- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
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- Get started
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- Accessibility features for vision
- Get started with VoiceOver
- Zoom in on what’s around you
- Zoom in on your Mac screen
- Increase font size and icons
- Adjust the display colors
- Hover to zoom in on text and colors
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customize onscreen motion
- Increase the size of what’s on your screen
- Make the pointer easier to see
- Have your Mac speak text that’s on the screen
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
Turn Power Nap on or off on Mac
Power Nap lets Mac computers stay up to date even while they’re sleeping. When your Mac goes to sleep, Power Nap activates periodically to update information. The information that’s updated depends on whether your Mac is running on battery power (a Mac laptop) or is plugged into a power adapter (a Mac laptop or desktop computer).
When your Mac is asleep and using battery power, Power Nap does the following:
Checks for new messages in Mail
Updates events in Calendar
Updates other iCloud events
When your Mac is plugged into a power adapter, Power Nap can also do activities such as downloading software updates and performing Time Machine backups.
If your Mac supports it, Power Nap is on by default when your Mac is plugged into a power adapter. You can easily change Power Nap settings.
Turn Power Nap on or off for a Mac laptop
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Click Options, click the pop-up menu next to Enable Power Nap, then choose an option.
Turn Power Nap on or off for a Mac desktop computer
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Turn on Enable Power Nap.
Note: This option is only available on Intel-based Mac computers.