Use Cases

Specific scenarios where you need your Mac to stay awake.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Long Downloads

Downloads fail when your Mac sleeps. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions for downloading.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Presentations

Presentation apps don't always prevent sleep. Shake It On does, with scheduling and camera detection.

3 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Remote Desktop Sessions

Remote desktop sessions disconnect when the Mac idles. Mouse movement is the only approach that keeps them alive.

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Rendering or Encoding

A render that sleeps at hour 3 means starting over. Shake It On's CPU threshold catches this automatically.

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Keep Your Mac Awake for Time Machine Backups

Time Machine pauses when your Mac sleeps. Shake It On auto-activates when your backup drive is plugged in.

3 min read

Keep Mac Awake During...

Guides for specific activities like gaming, coding, and streaming.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Gaming

Don't let your Mac sleep during gaming. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Coding

Don't let your Mac sleep during coding. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Video editing

Don't let your Mac sleep during video editing. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Streaming

Don't let your Mac sleep during streaming. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Zoom calls

Don't let your Mac sleep during Zoom calls. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During File transfers

Don't let your Mac sleep during file transfers. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During 3D modeling

Don't let your Mac sleep during 3D modeling. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Audio recording

Don't let your Mac sleep during audio recording. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Screen recording

Don't let your Mac sleep during screen recording. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During System updates

Don't let your Mac sleep during system updates. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Data migration

Don't let your Mac sleep during data migration. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Machine learning training

Don't let your Mac sleep during machine learning training. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Photo editing

Don't let your Mac sleep during photo editing. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Music production

Don't let your Mac sleep during music production. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake During Server monitoring

Don't let your Mac sleep during server monitoring. Shake It On keeps it awake with the right conditions.

2 min read

Keep Mac Awake While Running...

Guides for specific apps like Xcode, Final Cut Pro, and Blender.

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Xcode

Xcode doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Blender

Blender doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Handbrake

Handbrake doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Logic Pro

Logic Pro doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Steam

Steam doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running OBS Studio

OBS Studio doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Docker

Docker doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running Unity

Unity doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read

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Keep Your Mac Awake While Running MATLAB

MATLAB doesn't prevent sleep during long operations. Here's how to fix it.

2 min read