After a little over 2 minutes of inactivity, VO reads the login screen and I have to hit any key or swipe the trackpad to go back to whatever application I'm in. Screen saver is turned off, but turning it on has no impact on this. The display is set not to adjust brightness automatically. I've disabled everything I can find in system preferences. Anybody know a way to keep this from happening? It's annoying, since it breaks the flow of (slow) writing.
By Voracious P. Brain, 10 August, 2021
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go to system preferences > energy saver and set display sleep to never. yes, it is a bug, because vo only behaves this way since sierra, and it has never been fixed since then.
i set my display sleep to one hour, that is sufficient for most tasks, but if i'm reading a book, it's not enough, because vo will just stop it every hour. you may let apple know your displeasure, although i bet my farm they won't do nothing about it.
Thanks, but...
Thanks, but the Energy Saver tab doesn't exist in Big Sir, at least for laptops. I did find a "dim display after" under battery, but raising this or disabling it had no effect. This is 11.5.1 and an M1. Guess I'll report to Apple, since this is clearly the setting I was looking for.
It actually does. click…
It actually does. click battery in system prefs.
I did that and it still…
I did that and it still reports log in after abouut 2-3 minutes. I did report this when sierra was released, but no joy.
you adjusted display sleep to > 3 minutes
and it still gave you the login nonsense in 2 to 3 minutes? i feel so good not upgrading to big sur. everything is getting worse and worse, at least one can mitigate this problem by adjusting display sleep before, now it's no longer an option.
And feta mean
Mine is working correctly so I’m not exactly sure what’s going on here but there is an app called amphetamine you can get which will keep your screen unlocked for a specified amount of time. You have to set this every time but it might be worth looking into since you’re not getting this to work at all.
I don't get how is this a bug
I don't get how is this a bug? I mean, if your display or screen saver is set to lock after say 1 or two minutes of inactivity, that the mac will sleep after that said time. I don't get how this is a bug really. The computer just goes to sleep after the set ammount of time, and if the display or computer goes to sleep, of course voiceover would report lock screen... The battery preference has changed slightly though, go into system preferences, battery, and interact with the table shown. I don't remember which item in the table it was, but that should solve your problem. Running big sir myself, and I can confirm the battery or energy saver, as it was before, is still normal, just with some miner changes, interacting with the table instead of having different tabs on the window like in previous mac versions.
it is a bug for two reasons
1) the display should just go to sleep, and wake up again when there is activity. also, it does not say screen dim or screen lock, it say login panel. i OCR the screen, there is no login panel, but interestingly, voiceover shows a login and password field, both are dimmed, fake fields that is.
2) only certain things are considered activity, such as playing video. so if you are reading a longer article, for example, and you set your display to sleep in 2 minutes, yu get disrupted every 2 minutes with this login panel bug, and you have to manually resume the reading. prior to sierra, there is no such problem. so for vo users, your best option is to set a longer idle time or never.
for someone who doesn't need display as much actually needs to set one's display sleep to never, isn't it ironic?
For the record
My M1 MBA does not save the "turn display off after" setting when navigating to a different tab. So, the display timeout is stuck at 2 minutes. Other people have the same issue, and Apple replied to me that they are aware of the issue. I don't know if it's just M1s and Big Sir, one or the other, or just lucky folks like me. No way to reset NVRAM anymore. Nothing to do but wait.
Mine is set to an hour and I…
Mine is set to an hour and I still get it going to sleep after 2 minutes. roar.
Just use
Just use amphetamine and you can forget about it for good. It might be only on m1 macs then, I have a mid 2018 macbook pro intel. I'm not going for a m1 until things get ironed out, and until more programs I use daily, i.e: audio editors, daws, get m1 support, but that's just me.