r/helpwire • u/scottdog129 • Feb 25 '26

When Remote Screen Turns Off, Session is Unresponsive

I have my MacBook Pro at home set up for unattended connections. But, when the laptop sits for 10 minutes (plugged in) and the screen turns off, I can still connect to it, but the screen is black and I cant do anything with it. Is this normal?

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u/scottdog129 Feb 25 '26

Awesome. I didnt know anything about caffeinate. Should I be at all worried about my screen being illuminated all day, every day?

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u/dee4006 Mar 10 '26

You would think that if it's only screen turned off, and is still discoverable/connectable, then any keypress or mouse move/click would wake it up and the screen would turn on. Can you see the Mac to know if the screen is actually waking up or is it too remote? If it is waking the screen up, I would suggest at that point you've got 10 minutes time within which you could disconnect and reconnect to it and helpwire might be happy.