How can you turn off that when you open the lid of your Macbook Air M2 2022, it automatically turns on?

The suggestions in the terminal with the sumo autoboot code do not work work, even if you type it in different ways (Autoboot, auto-boot, Autoboot, autoboot etc).

Please advise, it’s annoying and it uses up unnecessary battery – and the battery life is already not even close to what it was advertized (even with ALL the battery-saving settings you can possibly enter)!

The correct way to shut down a Mac is explained in Apple’s Support document, here: Shut down or restart your Mac – Apple Support. That can easily be accomplished under their direct supervision.

Opening a Mac’s lid turns it on. In other words their stated requirement is to turn it on, which accomplishes the opposite of their stated intent. That’s dumb. Read and re-read that statement as often as you wish.

• If you want to turn off a Mac, then turn it off.
• If you do not want to turn it on, then don’t turn it on.

Can anything be more simple?

Are people really that dumb? (rhetorical question, I know).

Furthermore it is unavoidable fact that powering down a Mac does not render the potential chemical energy in its batteries inert. That desire cannot be met with any battery of similar characteristics, for the simple reason it that all such devices incorporate circuitry that monitors the internal battery charge states and thermal characteristics to prevent catastrophic failure. If necessary that circuitry protects the equipment by physically disconnecting the battery internally. As long as the battery has sufficient charge it will remain active and completely inaccessible, otherwise those protections could easily be bypassed. And a battery that has become completely discharged (as can occur after a long period of time in that state) cannot be fixed. It can only be replaced.

In other words there is simply no way to render the chemical energy within any useful battery completely inert and harmless, whether the equipment it powers is powered down or not. It’s irrelevant. It’s dumb. Even batteries that have been disconnected and completely separated from their equipment have caught fire and caused extensive damage. That’s one reason Apple and other responsible companies to to such lengths to ensure the batteries they use comply with extensive quality control requirements throughout their manufacture and distribution in the equipment they sell.

Telling them that fact in that manner will only entrench their position though. As Louise Hall explained in her document it is their decision and theirs alone. It is based on nothing, nor does it have to be. Case closed.

If they haven’t changed their procedures yet it’s doubtful that they will. But if you choose to convince them otherwise I suggest not saying what I said in the manner I said it. You will have to be nicer. Fortunately the aviation operators I use in the US have not been as obstinate, or as ignorant.