---
id: performance-battery.does-storage-studio-work-while-my-mac-is-asleep
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/performance-battery/does-storage-studio-work-while-my-mac-is-asleep
category: "Performance & battery"
subcategory: "Battery, power and Low Power Mode"
question: "Does Storage Studio keep working while my Mac is asleep?"
alt_questions:
  - "Does Storage Studio run during sleep?"
  - "Will a backup continue when my Mac sleeps?"
  - "storage studio sleep wake"
  - "What happens to a transfer when I close the lid?"
  - "Does Storage Studio wake my Mac?"
short_answer: "No. Storage Studio pauses while your Mac sleeps and checks things once on wake. Interrupted work such as a backup carries on from where it left off afterwards."
tags: ["sleep", "battery", "background work"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/performance-battery/does-storage-studio-drain-my-battery", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/performance-battery/does-self-healing-use-battery"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# Does Storage Studio keep working while my Mac is asleep?

No — while your Mac sleeps, Storage Studio sleeps too. Its self-checks pause entirely during sleep and run once on wake, because drives may have been connected or removed in the meantime.

Work that was interrupted by sleep picks up afterwards. Backups, for example, continue from where they left off the next time they run, and never re-upload what was already saved.

So closing the lid mid-job is safe; it just means the job finishes later. Related: [Backups](https://storagestudio.us/faq/backups/).