Password Protect Mac OS X: Screen Saver and After Sleep

You can easily password protect the Mac OS X screen saver and upon waking from sleep in just a few simple steps. After selling my old MacBook Pro on Amazon, I bought a refurbished one from the Apple Store. It took me a while to remember how to activate this particular password protect security feature on my MacBook Pro, so to help anyone else wanting to increase their Mac security, here is this post.

To password protect your Mac’s screen saver and after sleep, your first step is to open System Preferences. By default, there is an icon on the dock, but if it is not there, you can open it from the Apple menu in the top-left corner of the screen or from the Applications folder.

On the first row in the top-right corner of the System Preferences window, click on the Security icon. This will open your security preferences, where you can change all kinds of important changes.

The security preferences menu should open on the General tab by default. To password protect Mac OS X during the screen saver or after waking from sleep, simply put a check in the first box and select how quickly you want the password protection to go into effect with the drop down menu on the same line.

That’s it. Congratulations on beefing up your computer security. Thank you for reading this post on how to password protect Mac OS X.