{"id":8981,"date":"2024-09-03T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T23:21:35","slug":"set-macos-to-require-a-password-after-screen-saver-start-or-display-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/set-macos-to-require-a-password-after-screen-saver-start-or-display-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Set macOS to Require a Password after Screen Saver Start or Display Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although paying attention to online security is of primary importance, don\u2019t forget local security. You don\u2019t want to go out for lunch and let someone wandering by your office poke through your email, messages, photos, and private files. To ensure this doesn\u2019t happen, set your Mac to start the screen saver or sleep the display after a few minutes (on a laptop, just close the lid), and then set \u201cRequire password after screen saver begins or display is turned off\u201d to a short duration. We recommend 1 or 5 minutes, though you can adjust to balance inconvenience against security. To eliminate the fuss almost entirely, use Touch ID or an Apple Watch to unlock your Mac without having to type your password.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10603\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/set-macos-to-require-a-password-after-screen-saver-start-or-display-sleep.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image based on an original by iStock.com\/Armastas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although paying attention to online security is of primary importance, don\u2019t forget local security. You don\u2019t want to go out for lunch and let someone wandering by your office poke through your email, messages, photos, and private files. To ensure this doesn\u2019t happen, set your Mac to start the screen saver or sleep the display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,25,112,185,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8991,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/8991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}