How to stop macOS 26 from waking my system up every hour?

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How to stop macOS 26 from waking my system up every hour?

Hi all,

This is driving me nuts!

Every setting related to automatic wakes is turned off, every notification is turned off, automatic Time Machine is turned off.... yet the system wakes up every single hour!

How to get rid of all this?! The system automatically sets invisible wake requests. I remove the scheduled events, and they just keep getting added back.


2025-11-05 01:51:02.290388+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  115    8    powerd: [com.apple.powerd:wakeRequests] Selected RTC wake request: {

    UserVisible = 0;

    appPID = 1056;

    eventtype = wake;

    scheduledby = "com.apple.alarm.user-invisible-com.apple.calaccessd.travelEngine.periodicRefreshTimer";

    time = "2025-11-05 09:02:51 +0000";

}

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290633+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleSMCRTC) SMCRTC: [MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate] 2025/11/5 2:45:26 (0)

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290640+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleSMCRTC) SMCRTC: [MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate] 2025/11/5 2:45:26 (0)

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290644+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: PMRD: MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate 2025/11/5 02:45:26

2025-11-05 01:51:02.290647+0100 0x68109    Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: PMRD: next alarm (MaintenanceWakeCalendarDate) 2025/11/5 02:45:26

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.1

Posted on Nov 5, 2025 3:06 AM

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Answer 1

musicadi Author

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Nov 14, 2025 5:17 AM in response to HWTech

As I already wrote several times, all related settings are off and I already reported this to Apple (Feedback Assistant) before creating the thread.

My 2017 MBP was doing this too by default, but disabling these settings stopped it. There was not a single dark wake all night.

Anyway, looks like Apple is going the "always online" route too. 10 years from now, for most people, their iPhone will decide how they'll spend their day :)

Oh, well... brave new world, I guess

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musicadi Author

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Nov 14, 2025 6:57 AM in response to Owl-53

Sorry, but why do you feel the urge to constantly reply with posts that have nothing to do with my issue?

I already wrote two times that I reinstalled the OS from Recovery, choosing the option "Reinstall OS", so the system itself is clean.

The SSD has NOT been wiped and I'm not going to do that and then have to reinstall all my apps that I use every single day for my work, just so I can send you the same log entries that I already have, where you will clearly see that the internal macOS processes osanalytics and travelengine are constantly setting wake alarms, and that the system wakes from sleep due to maintenance every single hour.

If you insist that these alarms are being caused by a 3rd party app, and not by macOS itself, why don't you take a clean install of macOS and show me a log where it does not wake up from sleep every single hour.

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musicadi Author

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Nov 14, 2025 5:53 AM in response to Barney-15E

LOL, so why does he tell me to make a clean install then, if the system is clean anyway?!

But cool for acknowledging that it's indeed macOS doing it, and no 3rd party software can make osanalytics and travelengine set wake alarms, although the related setting are turned off.

Anyway, I haven't installed any "third-party system modifications", whatever that's supposed to mean.

Honest question: why do I get the feeling that you people are constantly hinting that I somehow made some nefarious changes to macOS?

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Owl-53

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Nov 14, 2025 7:08 AM in response to musicadi

musicadi wrote:

The SSD has NOT been wiped and I'm not going to do that and then have to reinstall all my apps that I use every single day for my work, just so I can send you the same log entries that I already have, where you will clearly see that the internal macOS processes osanalytics and travelengine are constantly setting wake alarms, and that the system wakes from sleep due to maintenance every single hour.

[Edited by Moderator]

You have already answered your own question

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Owl-53

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Nov 14, 2025 8:07 AM in response to musicadi

musicadi wrote:

No, the answer to my own question is right there in my previous post (which you probably will delete anyway, so here it is again.

Users like you and me do not have the Authority nor the Abilities to perform what has been suggested we can do

The Entity that does have the power to perform this, are the Apple Moderation Team which have no vested interest in these forums aside from making sure we ALL abide by the Rules that apply to ALL Users

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musicadi Author

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Nov 14, 2025 8:54 AM in response to neuroanatomist

Yeah, make sure to repeat that "why do you care that your Mac wakes up from sleep every single hour due to alarms invisible to the user that have been automatically set by internal processes, in order to perform tasks that the user had turned OFF?" line one more time, in case someone missed it :)

Hey, have I already mentioned that in macOS 26, the travelengine and osanalytics processes constantly set user-invisible alarms every single time your Mac goes to sleep, although the related UI settings, "Time to travel" (Calendar > Options > Notifications) and "Share Analytics" (Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements) have been turned OFF by the user?!

I'm glad you're glad that I found a solution :)

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musicadi Author

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Nov 15, 2025 6:00 AM in response to Owl-53

"You" was meant to be "You, the community", since my replies to you continuously get deleted and edited by someone, but weirdly enough, your totally un-constructive replies that contain no technical support answers whatsoever, are still there :)

So yeah, I think your 101k points carry more weight for the moderators than my 43 points, so my replies to you calling all this out are constantly being deleted.

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Owl-53

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Nov 15, 2025 9:12 AM in response to musicadi

I do not speak for all the other contributors.

The user sought assistance with a technical issue related to their computer.

Approximately five different and independent seasoned contributors attempted to offer technical advice and solutions at each step in the three-page thread.

Unfortunately, none of the advice offered seemed to meet the recipient’s expectations for one reason or another.

Conversely, the recipient appears to have found a solution to the computer issue on their own.

Be pleased with this accomplishment and move on.

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