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HiVolt
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Toronto, ON

HiVolt

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iPhone & iPad "half wake" my Mac mini from sleep

So i've noticed something odd, I've never paid attention to this, but when my Mac mini is in sleep mode, front light pulsating, and I plug in either my iPhone6 or iPad4 into the wall charger, the mini "half wakes", the light glows steady, but the screen doesnt come on. about a minute later, it goes back to the pulsating light.

Sometimes the spinning sync indicator shows up but not long enough for an actual WiFi sync.

I've poked around and if I disable "wake for network access" option in Energy Saver, it does not react when either of my iOS devices are plugged in...

Is this by design, are the iOS devices waking the machine from sleep to sync?