Mac WiFi keeps dropping after waking from sleep
Your Mac is turning off WiFi or forgetting your network when it sleeps. Change one setting in WiFi settings to have your Mac auto-connect after waking. This fixes it for almost everyone in 2 minutes.
Your Mac automatically manages WiFi during sleep to save power. When you wake it up, it has to find the network again, which causes a temporary disconnect. Changing a WiFi setting tells your Mac to remember your network and reconnect automatically instead of leaving you stuck.
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Skip — I just want a technicianCommon mistakes to avoid
- Turning off WiFi completely instead of just changing the auto-join settings
- Only restarting your Mac once. Sometimes it takes two restarts to reset the driver
- Forgetting to rejoin the network after making settings changes
Signs you need professional help
- You've changed the WiFi settings and reconnected to the network, but it's still dropping after sleep, or WiFi works on every other device but drops on your Mac consistently.
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