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Mavericks Power Button Functionality

Mavericks Power Button Functionality

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Started by Anonymous 12 years, 9 months ago
As we know the latest OS "Mavericks" was released a few days ago. Personally I have no complaints as yet, everything works great except for one minor problem - the power button now makes the computer sleep. This issue is especially bad on the new Retina MacBooks and Macbook Air's which have their power button located right above to the much used "backspace" key, and hitting this key inadvertently is very VERY easy. This issue, while not a "big deal" for average users is a serious problem for those of us who require their computer for continuous professional applications e.g. Video Audio production / Performance Programming Web Development And many others. In these circumstances accidentally hitting the power key could mean losing an entire project, killing the music at an event or needing to re-start an application and lose all previously unsaved work I would urge apple to re-think their power button function and bring it back to the way of old and reverse the sleep function with the dialogue function to prevent accidental sleeping during the most crucial moments of performing tasks. Powerbutton = Sleep/Shutdown/Cancel/Restart Dialogue box CTRL + Powerbutton = Sleep I hope other users feel the same way and that Apple can see it in their heart to correct this error, or at least give us users an option to turn this new "quick sleep" off - lets face it, 99% of people close the lid to sleep! Regards Steve F

Updates

October 29, 2013

I AM HEARING FROM SO MANY PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE LOST HOURS OF IMPORTANT WORK DUE TO THIS ACCIDENTAL SLEEP NIGHTMARE!! THE STORIES YOU ARE SHARING BLOW MY MIND AND FUEL MY DETERMINATION TO GET APPLE TO LISTEN TO OUR PLEA!!

October 29, 2013

THE MOMENTUM BEHIND THIS PETITION IS ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC!! IT IS BEYOND INCREDIBLE TO SEE SO MANY PROFESSIONALS STANDING TOGETHER TO DEMAND A FIX FOR THIS POWER BUTTON FRUSTRATION!!

8 Comments

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River Brandon
12 years ago Featured

Bad change. At least provide a setting to control this behavior. Many people hit this button inadvertently, especially since the hardware design changed.

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Jean Nguyen
12 years ago Featured

Each time this happens, lose all network connections and have to restart downloads. Also, the power button on retina macbookpro is too close to "Backscape" which i often mistakenly hit while coding. Extremely annoying and counterintuitive from Apple. I have own a mid-2009 macbookpro with separated round power button far from keyboard and with higher pressure resistance button. Such a shame... power and keyboard should not be mix together!

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Jim Danner
12 years ago Featured

Very user-unfriendly behavior. I am postponing the upgrade to Mavericks until this is fixed.

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Tim Bayly
12 years ago Featured

The new behavior of the Power key in Mavericks is simply awful. On a Macbook Air 13, I'm hitting both the Delete and Power keys at the same time about once a day, and the second I do so, I'm dumped into having to do a hard restart to get back to work. Simply awful!

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Sarah Sandoval
12 years ago Featured

SO ANNOYING. Already lost unsaved work twice because my finger slipped. Apple needs to fix this ASAP.

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Mike Mitchell
12 years ago Featured

This drives me crazy. I hit that button by mistake at least twice a week while trying to hit delete. Why would they change it to sleep instantly? Just give us a toggle.

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Agus Willian
12 years ago

Agree, I want the old power button functionality to at least be an option.

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Pranav
12 years ago

Please fix this.

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