How to lock your Mac or put your screen to sleep in macOS
How to lock your Mac or put your screen to sleep in macOS There are a number of different ways to lock or sleep your screen in macOS. Before we show them to you, however, it's important to make the distinction between locking your screen and just putting it to sleep. If you lock your Mac you'll put it to sleep and need to type in your login password on your Mac's lock screen (or unlock it with TouchID on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, or with an Apple Watch). If you put it to sleep, you won't necessarily lock it. In order to lock your screen, you need to set up the password in System Preferences. Here's how to do that. How to set up a password to lock the screen Launch System Preferences either by clicking on its icon in the Dock or by choosing it from the Apple menu. Click on the Security & Privacy pane. Choose the General tab and check the option that starts 'Require password…' Choose an option fro...