macOS UIApplication not in scope

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I'm trying to disable the sleep timer when a button is pressed in my macOS app but the problem is that from the resources I've seen elsewhere the code doesn't work.

The code I'm trying is

UIApplication.shared.isIdleTimerDisabled = true

When I try and run my app I get this error

Cannot find 'UIApplication' in scope

From what I've managed to search for regarding this it appears that UIApplication might be an iOS thing, but how can I adapt this for macOS? I've found some code samples from 5+ years ago but it involves lots of code. Surely, in 2025 macOS can disable sleep mode as easy as iOS, right?

How can I achieve this please?

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RickMaddy OP

2w

A quick search points me to the ProcessInfo class and its beginActivity(options:reason:) and endActivity(_:) methods. The options you can pass to beginActivity include preventing sleep. See the documentation for ProcessInfo for more details and examples.

And yes, UIApplication is specific to iOS.

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