Screen not waking up, after Tahoe upgrade

Anyone else facing the same problem? Seems to have started after the MacOS 26 upgrade: both when on power or on battery, closing the lid and allowing the machine to go to sleep mode, it then does not wake up and a restart is needed. Interestingly, the caps lock led seems to work, i.e. keyboard is responding, but screen remains black!

iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 26

Posted on Sep 28, 2025 8:43 AM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2025 6:54 PM

Sequoia changed how the lid sensor (magnet + Hall effect sensor) reports its state to macOS which is the reason for the error. Putting this into my terminal helped :)

sudo pmset -a disablesleep 0
sudo pmset -a sleep 5
sudo pmset -a lidwake 0
sudo killall -9 powerd
sleep 3
sudo pmset sleepnow
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Screen not waking up, after Tahoe upgrade

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