{"id":560353,"date":"2023-01-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=560353"},"modified":"2023-02-02T06:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:04:48","slug":"how-to-reset-smc-on-a-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/how-to-reset-smc-on-a-macbook-pro","title":{"rendered":"How to reset SMC on a MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing how to reset SMC on a MacBook Pro can dramatically reduce the chance of you throwing your laptop against a wall! That&#8217;s because resetting SMC &#8212; or the System Management Controller as it&#8217;s known &#8212; can resolve issues such as your Mac overheating, slowing down or suddenly shutting down. It can also make a MacBook Pro more responsive, tame a loud fan and reconnect ports, Bluetooth or WiFi. You&#8217;ll find an SMC chip in Intel-based MacBook Pro computers (an important thing to bear in mind as we&#8217;ll discover in a moment). The primary purpose of this chip is to regulate your computer&#8217;s battery performance, temperature and power management. Resetting it can result in a smoother running machine and it&#8217;s a very easy operation to perform. Obviously, as the SMC is an Intel feature, Macs with Apple Silicon (so any Mac with an M[x] chip like the M1 or M1 Pro) don&#8217;t have an SMC to reset. As such, this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can reset SMC on an Intel-based MacBook Pro if you&#8217;re having trouble with your computer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}