AtControl Help

Install AtControl for Mac, flip the switch, and let the setup assistant take you through the rest.

The switch, what it holds off, the five rules that release it, and what happens at launch.

Keep the Mac awake for a set time, then sleep it. Presets, the duration field, cancelling, and what "Sleeps at" means.

The three display modes, launch at login, text size, and what the main window's pages are.

Know when someone connects to your Mac over screen sharing, VNC, remote desktop or SSH.

Every event AtControl records, the statistics computed from them, export, and retention.

Every pane of AtControl for Mac's Settings, in sidebar order.

Pair the iPhone or iPad app with a Mac using a QR code or a pairing link, and unpair from either side.

The Mac detail screen — presence, mode, someone at the Mac, the countdown, the agent task — and the commands.

"Someone is using your Mac", the timer warning, command results, and the switches that decide what reaches you.

The same app, laid out for the width it has — from Slide Over to a 13-inch landscape window with a sidebar.

Let Claude Code, Codex or any coding agent keep the Mac awake while it works, and sleep or shut it down when — and only when — you asked.

Install the five shortcuts, choose the ways in, copy one message into your agent, answer three questions, watch the row turn green, allow each shortcut once.

The five App Intents, the URL scheme, the helper CLI, the JSON fields, the settings, and the rules.

What the row or the agent says, what it means, what to do.

What is signed, what is encrypted by whom, what a pairing means, and what AtControl deliberately does not claim.

The Mac sleeps anyway, the phone says Offline, pairing fails, notifications do not arrive.

The words AtControl uses, exactly.