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Question for other MacBook Pro owners

I’ve had my MacBook Pro a few years now. It’s an M1 with 16gb ram. It’s been acting weird when it comes to the screensaver activating. As in, it never comes on. I’ve adjusted my settings, and it still won’t work. The only thing that makes the screensaver act normal is a reboot, but it’ll only work once.

Anyone have any idea?

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  • Have you checked the system log in console.app and/or run EtreCheck?

    I haven’t had that issue on my M1 MBP, although I have had fast user switching go to a beachball and require a force reboot.

    • No, I’m fairly new to the Mac. This is my first one after 20ish years on PC.

      Can you direct me to a how-to or something online so I can follow it tomorrow?

      • Ah; best thing to do is drop a note in the Apple Support Forum.

        Personally, I haven’t used a screensaver in over a decade; I just have energy saver settings set to turn the screen off after 3 minutes of inactivity; separately, I set it to require login after 5 minutes.

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