To be safe, I initially chose Command+Option+Down Arrow.

I recommend using at least a three-key shortcut that you will not press accidentally. Since the Sleep command will interrupt anything you are doing and put your computer to sleep, choose your shortcut carefully. That's it! Now you can use the new keyboard shortcut to put your Mac to sleep.

Press Tab or click in the Keyboard Shortcut field to select it.

Make sure All Applications is selected.Click the ' +' symbol on the right to add a new shortcut.Choose the Shortcuts option at the top.To create a 'Sleep' keyboard shortcut in macOS 11, follow these steps. This gave me hope I could create one for the Sleep command. So recording a 'Sleep' action was not possible.įinally, near the end of 2020, I discovered macOS Big Sur supports custom app shortcuts. I also tried recording a Sleep macro, but putting the computer to sleep interrupted the macro recording each time. I could assign Play, Pause, Skip, etc, but for some reason 'Eject' was never an option in the media controls. But most keyboard control interfaces, including Razer Synapse and Corsair iCUE, did not provide an assignable 'Eject' key. For example, I tried assigning other keys to the Eject command with third-party software. Most third-party keyboards do not have an Eject key, which makes the Command+Option+Eject keyboard shortcut unusable.įor years, I tried several alternative methods of creating a sleep shortcut with no success. It is a convenient way to put your desktop Mac to sleep - if you have an Apple keyboard. Answer: The standard macOS Sleep shortcut is:

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