

I do know that RTC stands for “real time clock,” and my assumption is that these entries refer to background processes that are started by the MacOS version of crontab, but I can’t confirm this yet. The important thing you’re looking for in that output is what comes after “Wake reason.” In my case I saw this over and over again:Īt the moment I don’t know exactly what “Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)” means. 16:19:23.315217-0600 0x3332cbe Default 0x0 0 kernel: (AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver) AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)

14:23:03.385855-0600 0x32e0a7c Default 0x0 0 kernel: (AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver) AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01) 13:13:41.189154-0600 0x32af8ab Default 0x0 0 kernel: (AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver) AppleDeviceManagementHIDEventService::processWakeReason Wake reason: Host (0x01)
