I'm running an M1 Mac Mini with Mac OS 12.3.1 hooked up to a thunderbolt dock, and I've lost count of how many times Voiceover gets stuck in this infinite loop when the screen locks. Is there a way to keep this from happening? It's maddening to leave my work, only to come back to hear this thing yammering away.
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Screensaver
An alternative to system sleep is to use a screensaver, and set the Mac to go to sleep after a longer period of inactivity. This is what I do, and for me, VoiceOver simply announces "Screensaver" when screensaver starts. It may occasionally announce "Authentication is not responding" when it eventually goes to sleep, but this message is not repeated more than three times for me.
HTH
System Sleep
I navigated to System Preferences and found the pane for desktop and screen saver. However, where does one go to adjust the system sleep settings?
Thanks
Update:
If anybody is interested, navigate to System Preferences>Battery and find the table. One option is Power Adaptor. Focus VO and then stop interacting with the table and navigate forward with VO to make choices.
Gosh
Wow I thought my Mac was announcing this when I navigated to the heading of your post.
To get past it, just start…
To get past it, just start typing in your password. It will go away.
Lol i had the same reaction
@maldalain I thought the same thing. for a split second I was like WTF? Haha. sorry I can't help though.