Schedule Your macOS Big Sur to Startup or Shutdown Automatically [Tutorial]
0Schedule Your macOS Big Sur to Startup or Shutdown Automatically [Tutorial]
Schedule specific times for your Mac to start up, shut down, go to sleep, or wake from sleep. You can do this if you want to be sure your Mac turns off when you aren’t working and turns on before you come to work.
Your Mac can be made to power on and shut down on a custom schedule.
Having your computer start up 15 minutes or so before you get up from bed in the morning is a great way to have your emails, photos, messages, calendars and other personal information items updated and refreshed before you even touch the keyboard.
This helps reduce the time necessary to wait to use the machine. You may use this feature to get your computer to start up before you get to the office or arrive home.
Conversely, you may want to set your Mac to shut down at a specified time rather than sleep in order to save power. For instance, my custom power schedule is set to automatically shuts down my MacBook Air about half an hour after I finish working on workdays.
This tutorial will apply for MacBook Pro, Air, Mini's running the macOS operating system. This tutorial was performed on a macOS Big Sur system.