Recent Anki updates, bundle ID change? Disabling App Nap (macOS/Anki-Connect)

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Before the recent Anki updates, you could disable the macOS App nap feature for Anki to prevent Anki-Connect issues, like described here:

foosoft/anki-connect

Starting with Mac OS X Mavericks, a feature named App Nap has been introduced to the operating system. This feature causes certain applications which are open (but not visible) to be placed in a suspended state. As this behavior causes Anki-Connect to stop working while you have another window in the foreground, App Nap should be disabled for Anki

These previous commands no longer work though:

defaults write net.ankiweb.dtop NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true
defaults write net.ichi2.anki NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true
defaults write org.qt-project.Qt.QtWebEngineCore NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true

I am guessing there are some bundle ID changes or something in the recent updates of Anki? Anyone know what the commands are supposed to be now?

Thanks!

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I’m also keenly interested in this issue as well.

It might have something to do with the changes to Qt in the recent update, shifting to Qt6.

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The bundle ID changed. PopClip also didn’t work in Anki anymore and required updating.

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Okay, so checking osascript -e 'id of app "Anki"' returns net.ankiweb.launcher as the ID it seems. However, running:

defaults write net.ankiweb.launcher NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true

…doesn’t work either though.

I tried editing the plist directly instead:

sudo cp /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/Info.plist ~/Desktop/anki_plist_backup-Info.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :LSAppNapIsDisabled bool true" /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/Info.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :LSAppNapIsDisabled" /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/Info.plist

(And then re-signing the application since otherwise it won’t open):

sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/Anki.app

Then resetting launch services and clearing caches, but it still doesn’t work. I’m not sure what to do. There must surely be a way though right?

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In case anyone else is looking for a temporary workaround, disabling App Nap globally does work:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES

It’s not ideal though, but at least it makes Anki-Connect usable again.

(It can be reverted with defaults delete NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled btw).

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While definitely far from ideal, this work-around at least works if I can remember to enable/disable the global setting every time I sit down to read a book.

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The next beta will expose a method that AnkiConnect can use to adjust this directly.

from aqt._macos_helper import macos_helper as h; h.disable_appnap()
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