This is most useful if you want your device to be on and ready as you enter your home so that you don’t have to wait. Instead, the display typically stays black, but the hardware is awake and active, able to receive network connections, pings, and whatever else you want to do with the machine. This may not be visible because using the WOL protocol to wake a Mac this way does not necessarily wake the devices display to the standard locked login screen which greets a Mac user if they were to hit a sleeping Mac’s spacebar. You can use a mobile app called Wake-on-Lan in Android (there are similar apps for iOS, but I havent tested it). This should wake up your Mac, provided it’s currently sleeping. Can keep 30 configurations for computers to WOL. Works from other networks as 3G and WIFI. Can ping your computer to check, when it is ready. Easy detection of local computers with Bonjour and NETBIOS lookup. Scroll down and select the option to ‘Wake On Lan’. Use your iPhone or iPad to power up a sleeping Mac or PC on your network. In this case, the device is My Macbook Air. Select the device that you want to wake up using WOL. Your connected network should automatically show up, similar to the screenshot below:Ĥ. Once Fing has downloaded, open it from your iPhone’s home screen.ģ. Another free app you can use is Mocha WOL which is free too.Ģ. There are many available on the App Store, but the one we’ll be using here is Fing (free). So, now that your Mac is ready, here’s how to wake up your Mac via your iPhone:ġ. Now, put your Mac to sleep via the Apple menu:
Here, enable the option to “Wake for Network Access.”ģ. In the Energy Saver section, navigate to the “Power Adaptor” tab. Open System Preferences via the Apple Menu.Ģ. Follow the steps below to set up your Mac to be woken up wirelessly:ġ. Generally, this is done to wake one Mac with another on the same network, but this can also be used with other devices that can send a magic packet, such as an iPhone.įirst, you’ll need to set up your Mac to be woken up using WOL. I won’t go into the details of the technology I’ll only tell you that it uses a network diagram called a magic packet. You can easily wake up your Mac using a technology called Wake on LAN, which can be found in OS X’s System Preferences.
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