I genuinely, finally found the issue. Listen up boys and girls. If youâve had your iPhone ask you for your Apple ID password EVERY DAY since ios13 - Iâm about to drop a fix on ya. First go to Settings - âTouch/Face ID & Passcodeâ Turn OFF âiTunes and App Storeâ under âuse Touch/Face ID forâ. Delete the app preference file. Plist files can become corrupt when a Mac shuts down or restarts unexpectedly or when an app freezes or crashes. As a result, the app may not open. When you delete a bad preference file, the Mac creates a new plist file that contains all the app's defaults automatically. Lungo prevents your Mac from falling asleep and your screen from dimming. Keeps your Mac awake 1.8.0. November 9, 2020. This is a Mac App Store limitation.
App Icon
Every app needs a beautiful and memorable icon that attracts attention in the App Store and stands out on the Home screen. Your icon is the first opportunity to communicate, at a glance, your appâs purpose. It also appears throughout the system, such as in Settings and search results.
Embrace simplicity. Find a single element that captures the essence of your app and express that element in a simple, unique shape. Add details cautiously. If an iconâs content or shape is overly complex, the details can be hard to discern, especially at smaller sizes.
Provide a single focus point. Design an icon with a single, centered point that immediately captures attention and clearly identifies your app.
Tinder web app mac. Design a recognizable icon. People shouldnât have to analyze the icon to figure out what it represents. For example, the Mail app icon uses an envelope, which is universally associated with mail. Take time to design a beautiful and engaging abstract icon that artistically represents your appâs purpose.
Keep the background simple and avoid transparency. Make sure your icon is opaque, and donât clutter the background. Give it a simple background so it doesnât overpower other app icons nearby. You donât need to fill the entire icon with content.
Use words only when theyâre essential or part of a logo. An appâs name appears below its icon on the Home screen. Donât include nonessential words that repeat the name or tell people what to do with your app, like 'Watch' or 'Play.' If your design includes any text, emphasize words that relate to the actual content your app offers.
Donât include photos, screenshots, or interface elements. Photographic details can be very hard to see at small sizes. Screenshots are too complex for an app icon and donât generally help communicate your appâs purpose. Interface elements in an icon are misleading and confusing.
Donât use replicas of Apple hardware products. Apple products are copyrighted and canât be reproduced in your icons or images. In general, avoid displaying replicas of devices, because hardware designs tend to change frequently and can make your icon look dated.
Donât place your app icon throughout the interface. It can be confusing to see an icon used for different purposes throughout an app. Instead, consider incorporating your iconâs color scheme. See Color.
Test your icon against different wallpapers. You canât predict which wallpaper people will choose for their Home screen, so donât just test your app against a light or dark color. See how it looks over different photos. Try it on an actual device with a dynamic background that changes perspective as the device moves.
Keep icon corners square. The system applies a mask that rounds icon corners automatically.
App Icon Attributes
All app icons should adhere to the following specifications.
App Icon Sizes
Every app must supply small icons for use on the Home screen and throughout the system once your app is installed, as well as a larger icon for display in the App Store.
Provide different sized icons for different devices. Make sure that your app icon looks great on all the devices you support.
Mimic your small icon with your App Store icon. Although the App Store icon is used differently than the small one, itâs still your app icon. It should generally match the smaller version in appearance, although it can be subtly richer and more detailed since there are no visual effects applied to it.
Spotlight, Settings, and Notification Icons
Every app should also provide a small icon that iOS can display when the app name matches a term in a Spotlight search. Additionally, apps with settings should provide a small icon to display in the built-in Settings app, and apps that support notifications should provide a small icon to display in notifications. All icons should clearly identify your appâideally, they should match your app icon. If you donât provide these icons, iOS might shrink your main app icon for display in these locations.
Donât add an overlay or border to your Settings icon. iOS automatically adds a 1-pixel stroke to all icons so that they look good on the white background of Settings.
TIP If your app creates custom documents, you don't need to design document icons because iOS uses your app icon to create document icons automatically.
User-Selectable App Icons
For some apps, customization is a feature that evokes a personal connection and enhances the user experience. If it provides value in your app, you can let people select an alternate app icon from a set of predefined icons that are embedded within your app. For example, a sports app might offer icons for different teams or an app with light and dark modes might offer corresponding light and dark icons. Note that your app icon can only be changed at the userâs request and the system always provides the user with confirmation of such a change.
Provide visually consistent alternate icons in all necessary sizes. Like your primary app icon, each alternate app icon is delivered as a collection of related images that vary in size. When the user chooses an alternate icon, the appropriate sizes of that icon replace your primary app icon on the Home screen, in Spotlight, and elsewhere in the system. To ensure that alternate icons appear consistently throughout the systemâthe user shouldn't see one version of your icon on the Home screen and a completely different version in Settings, for exampleâprovide them in the same sizes you provide for your primary app icon (with the exception of the App Store icon). See App Icon Sizes.
For developer guidance, see the setAlternateIconName method of UIApplication.
NOTE Alternate app icons are subject to app review and must adhere to the App Store Review Guidelines.
By default, Windows uses a power plan to save try and save power. It can do this by turning off the display when there is no activity for a given period and also do a similar thing to put the computer to sleep. If you donât move the mouse or touch the keyboard within a specific period of time, Windows thinks youâre away and will perform the selected action to conserve power.
However, this is not always the case and sometimes you might not be at the computer but donât want it to shut off the display or go into standby for a while. You can of course go to the Power Options in Control Panel and create or edit a power plan that keeps the computer and display on. Or you can go to Settings in Windows 10 and simply change or disable the sleep timers for the current plan.
If you donât revert the chosen power options back, youâre left with settings you might not want on a permanent basis. Some software has the ability to keep the display or computer on while running such as a video player or video encoder but not all software has this option.
A simple solution so you donât have to touch any power plans or sleep settings is to use a third party utility that temporarily prevents the computer or screen from going into standby. Hereâs a selection of free tools that can help, they were all tested on Windows 10 64-bit.
1. Insomnia
This simple little portable tool will prevent your computer from going into standby while itâs running. Insomnia actually tries to disable sleep mode while itâs open and then puts the setting back to what it was previously on close. Do note Insomnia has not been designed to and will not prevent your screen from going to sleep.
There are separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions available and you simply run the executable which opens the small window shown above. Although you can minimize the window to the tray, it is meant to stay on the screen as a reminder that your computer cannot currently enter sleep mode.
Download Insomnia
2. Caffeine
Caffeine works in a rather simple way to try and prevent your computer from going into standby, the screen from shutting off, or the screensaver kicking in. This is to simulate a keypress once every 59 seconds so Windows is fooled into thinking youâre typing on your computer. The pretend keypress is the virtually unused F15 key although you can change it to Shift or another key if thereâs a conflict with your applications
A number of options can be edited from the command line or placed in a desktop shortcut. They include the keypress interval (in seconds), use the Shift key or virtually any other key or mouse press, prevent sleep but allow the screensaver, watch for a specific desktop window, and various ways to enable or disable Caffeine. The tray menu has two timers for setting how long Caffeine can be activated or deactivated.
Download Caffeine
3. Insomniate
There are two variants of Insomniate available; the standard version and the simple version. The only difference between them is the standard version has a user interface with a countdown timer where you can prevent sleep for a specific period of time. Both are portable executables.
Insomniate works for the screensaver, putting the screen to sleep, and also putting the computer to sleep. Just run the simple version and let it sit in the tray for it to work all the time. To use the timer, run the standard version, set the countdown, and press the play button. There appears to be no information about how Insomniate prevents sleeping but it does seem to work perfectly fine in Windows 10.
Download Insomniate
4. StayAwake
StayAwake is a relatively old tool from 2012, but it appeared to work just fine in the latest Windows 10 64-bit operating system. It can prevent the screensaver from starting and stop the screen or computer from being put to sleep. StayAwake does this by fooling Windows and telling it the mouse cursor has moved zero pixels.
Simply launch the portable executable and double click the tray icon to enable or disable StayAwakeâs function. Right click the tray icon and go to Settings to enable a hotkey, display balloon notifications, or use alternative mode. This is a fallback option in case the normal mode doesnât work and moves the cursor a few pixels every second.
Download StayAwake
5. PreventTurnOff
PreventTurnOff is a small but powerful tool that is able to prevent system shutdown, standby, hibernate, log off, and also stop the screensaver or monitor turning off. Every option is very straight forward and if you want to prevent the computer from going to standby for example, just make sure that the Standby checkbox is checked, click the Enabled button and press To-Tray so the program minimizes.
There is also a configurable timer function that you can set when to automatically disable the blocking or force the computer to shut down, log off, or sleep after time expires. The Options menu will allow you to setup a timer to start blocking when the program starts or the system resumes from standby.
Download PreventTurnOff
6. Donât Sleep
Donât Sleep is by the same developer as PreventTurnOff and is essentially a more advanced version of that tool with some extra options. In addition to the features in PreventTurnOff, this program can send the computer to sleep on a mouse/keyboard event and it has more trigger based events that can prevent sleep mode being enabled.
Donât Sleep can also block sleep until the laptop battery is below xx%, disable sleep until CPU usage is below the threshold, and disable sleep until the network load is under a certain threshold. Both PreventTurnOff and Donât Sleep are portable and also have a useful Mini-HTTP feature which can be used to remotely configure the program through a web browser.
Download Donât Sleep
7. Coffee FF
Coffee is a little different from most of the other tools here because it can prevent the computer from going to sleep during certain trigger events. The main trigger is network activity and Coffee can prevent sleep while network speed is above a certain threshold. The other useful function is preventing sleep while a specific program is running. Once the program closes, the sleep timer will be enabled again.
If you want to disable the network trigger and just use the process trigger, set the download/upload speeds to 0, go to the Programs tab, and select a running process from the list. A third option to block sleep mode is to do so for a specific number of minutes, you can set that in the bottom left of the main window. Coffee was created by Steven Cole but subsequently updated by FireFly, hence the FF in the name. Portable and installer versions are available (portable is a RAR file).
Download Coffee FF
8. NoSleep
This last utility is incredibly easy to use because it has no user interface or options of any kind. You just run the program and let it do its job. NoSleep fools the computer into believing you are using it by moving the cursor a single pixel to the left and then a single pixel to the right every 30 seconds. This blocks sleep mode for the screen and the computer as well as the screensaver.
There are two versions of NoSleep in the download. The only difference is v2.0 is made using .NET so requires .NET Framework 4.5 or higher. Windows 10, 8 and probably Windows 7 users will have .NET 4.5+ installed. The other older version was made in the AutoIt scripting language and can be tried on machines without .NET although itâs reported that this version is less reliable.
Download NoSleep
Final note: As we mentioned at the beginning, most video playing software will prevent the computer from turning off the display or sleeping because obviously itâs trying to show video content. An alternative to these tools is to simply load a video into your favorite player, mute the audio, and minimize the window. This doesnât work with the Windows 10 âMovies & TVâ player but Windows Media Player does work.
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Gijs van Haastrecht4 months ago
Open powerpoint, start presentation, alt+tab to the application you want to monitor
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On my Windows 10 Pro, Donât Sleep didnât work anymore. Neither did Insomnia. But Caffeinated does the trick. OTOH, on caffeinatedâs web site, someone commented in 2017 that it didnât work on his Windows 10 Pro. Soâ¦
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David6 months ago
Is there a program for windows phone?
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Iâve used Caffeine for years. Only downside is when run on a multiuser machine. Apple photos mac apps. When my girlfriend switches to her user account and then leaves the computer it will go into hiberation, since Caffeine is run from my user which is then âinactiveâ due to her active session. Not nearly a catch 22 situation but I would still like a simple method of addressing it.
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james bruce9 months ago
Insomnia works on my Windows 10
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Im trying to find something to give periodic movement to mouse. As playing a Online game the software of game stop the mouse after about 10 minutes unless i move mouse cursor then it works again for about 10 more mins and so on. I tried mouse jiggler but it wont work while on a video game any ideas.
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HAL9000 Author1 year ago
Weâd be giving false info if we said this ran on Windows 10 and it didnât, as we have made no such claim there is no need for a disclaimer.
The post will be updated at some point but itâs not a priority.
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There is a very easy way to stop your computer going to sleep which bypasses even corporate settings that canât be changed. Just shoot a small video (say 10 sec) on your phone and email it to yourself. Open the video with Windows Media Player and set it to play on a loop. Minimize this window to your task bar and thatâs it. Your computer will not sleep as long as the video is running.
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Tyler7 months ago
Awesome way to deal with it. I was also wondering if there was simply a web site that a person would log into to do something similar since a lot of corporate IT donât let the end user install anything. I will give your idea a shot. Thanks for sharing.
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I have a windows 7 HP. I left one night and when I came back the next morning I turned it on, and the computer came on, went thru finding signal, then straight to going asleep, and then it shuts down? Canât even get to the first window to fix the sleep mode, what do I do?
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Peter3 years ago
There is a legitimate need for something like this. I have Echo Dot connected to by line in to play music via spotify. Laptop connected to receiver /sound system and hdmi to tv. The problem is, an active Line In doesnt prevent the sleep mode from kicking in and, therefore, stopping music. Idealy need a utility to monitor Line In and prevent sleep when active.
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I have found âinsomniateâ to be the best one so far. It doesnt move the mouse to keep the computer awake. It honestly also has the best looking UI too.
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AK3 years ago
nosleep.exe is one I use often. Moves the mouse cursor one pixel to the left at a regular interval, then one pixel to the right
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The reason these program exist, is the fact the corporate networks can use enforced policies on locking timeout, screensavers, etc. that you then cannot change, or revert back to the network default on next boot/login. If you are not in such a situation, you normally never need them, and thus set the power, auto-lock or Screensaver options you like.
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ormo4 years ago
Insomnia does not work with windows 10
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I donât get any of these. They all seem to bypass sleep mode all the time unless you disable them. If that is the case, why not just disable âSleepâ mode altogether in the 1st place??
Unless any of these actually recognize when a program is running (a browser downloading files, a defrag tool working or any program that runs for an extended period of time etc.) and then activates. If nothing is running, the program doesnât run letting the system go into sleep mode.
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Keep Windows 10 Awake
Bruce4 years ago
The problem as usual is M$âs stupidity& stubbornness. Poor design, poor thinking with nothing being done to fix anything, just add new crap no one wants.
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I agree !!!
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David Vanderschel2 years ago
Those which prevent sleep for a specifiable interval of time serve an otherwise unsatisfiable need. I use it when the computer is transcoding a video file, something which may take hours while I am not attending but after which sleep is good.
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Because with the last windows update, my work PC now goes to sleep if i use the âlockâ function, even with sleep=never selected. Very frustrating when it takes my PC 10 minutes to âwarm upâ and function correctly.
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Liquify ^_^4 years ago
I stay you must add StayAwake bu only works on windows 7. I tested it on my windows 10 but there is an error. On windows 8 I havenât tested it yet.
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Caffeine required download of .NET runtime, so I wouldnât list it first :|
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daniel4 years ago
Hi, May I suggest you update your link to Insomnia so it points to the developerâs own page, so people always get the latest version and the developer gets the credit deserved. Reply
dlaa.me/Insomnia/
Insomnia download link is dead!
This is the only place where I happen to find it, so please update the original download link: Reply
files.italiasw.com/mhku4var5cyt/Insomnia.zip.html
HAL9000 Author5 years ago
Thanks for the report, the file has now been uploaded to our server.
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Thanks a bunch, mate! this really helpped :)
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You shall never know5 years ago
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Just on the list of similar applets, I think you could put ShutdownGuard too. Now with Windows 10âs automatic restarting and stuff, having it can be pretty useful.
You could also add Noise to the list. Reply
donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#Noise
HAL9000 Author8 years ago
Keep Awake Windows
Thanks Pilgrim, added it to the list to make 5â¦
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Gr8 infoâ¦â¦. thanx.
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ahsiang10 years ago
Keep Computer Awake Windows 7
nice work from Raymond again!
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thanks for this Raymond!!!
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gofree10 years ago
Hrrm, you are always coming with sth!!! Reply
Jokin, this is a great tool.
thnks for info keep it updateâ¦
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Gael04310 years ago
This look To be a very good software and its free!
Thanks Raymond!
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Thank you Raymond.
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Janevski10 years ago
Heheh, it even has HTTP control server feature. :) Reply
Thanks for the share Raymond.
Very goood for me!
Thank you Raymond for your job Keep Macbook AwakeReply
malinda10 years ago
this good for me too. thanks for sharing. need to have a look
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