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Recommended Sleep Settings for Mac

Set your Mac to stay awake so the Bark Desktop App can scan your child's iOS device as often as possible.

These steps will vary slightly depending on your version of macOS.

  1. Open ios_settings_app.jpg System Preferences.

  2. Click mac_big_sur_battery.png Battery.

  3. Click Options.

  4. Set Put hard disks to sleep when possible to Never. If you don't see this option, move on.

  5. Set Wake for network access to Always.

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  6. On the left, click Displays.

  7. Click Advanced.

  8. Toggle on Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off.

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