Let them know this, so when they get hacked you can say 'I told you so'. It's also a better idea have users run as standard users and not as admins. PS I adjusted the topic and my original message accordingly.It's always a good idea to have the screensaver password turned on. Now when Spotify is playing music (in an active tab, both in Chrome and Safari), it doesn't happen, and the screen is turned off after 15 minutes. Web browsers, when playing media, typically prevent laptops from turning the screen off (so, for example, the user could keep watching YouTube or listen to music with the screen on), and it worked for a few years with Spotify just fine till a couple days ago. However, there is a setting to turn the display off after 15 minutes of inactivity (the computer doesn't go to sleep, but the screen gets turned off). To clarify the issue (as I might have not explained it properly, actually) – the 'sleep mode' is disabled on my laptops, so they never go to sleep per se.

I am happy to try finding and checking it as long as you help me understand what it is, so please let me know. It started happening on two laptops without changing any system settings.Īlso, you sent an article to the settings in macOS 10.13, while the one installed on my MacBooks is 12.4, where the settings are different (there is no 'Energy Saver' option in 'System Preferences', I think it's called 'Battery' now, and it may even have a different subset of options), and didn't mention which specific option should 'allow Spotify to play music while preventing your MacBook from going to sleep'. So, I rather tend to think that the configuration should be fine there. I haven't changed those settings in years, and everything worked for a long while till recently. Web player does not prevent macOS from turning scr.

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