This is what I have ,screen sleep after a half hour and then a time
of 1 minute before the password is required. I get an announcement
when the screen goes to sleep and then a minute later when the
password is required and this seems normal to me.
On Sat, 19 May 2018 16:06:33 -0400,
Kelvin Falconer wrote:
I am confident I have found the source of this problem.Cheryl, and anyone else frustrated with constant authentication log-in
announcements that disappear !
Firstly, I am running a 2017 21.5" iMac with solid state drive and High
Sierra. I first noticed this problem when I received this machine running
Sierra.
The source of the announcement is the screen sleep function, and there are
two parts to this.
In the Energy Saver preference my period before entering screen sleep was 20
minutes, possibly the default, I have reset it to Never with a warning that
this may reduce the life of the screen. I will change this after I complete
this study even though I use the screen curtain.
After making this change I have not heard the irritating announcement.
The second part is in the Security and Privacy preference where you can
choose to require a password after the screen or screen saver has been
activated. This option has always been unchecked. The next option is the time
period to wait before the authentication is required, the default is
'immediately'.
My assumption is that with the announcement set to immediately the window has
been triggered and VO speaks it but it then disappears, even though I have
the previous option set to no password.
I intend to change the option from immediate to a time period, perhaps five
minutes, also taking my screen sleep off Never, perhaps back to 20 minutes,
and observe what happens.
I am interested to know whether you also find this to solve the issue in your
machine.
TF
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