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>>speckx+(OP)
Another trick is to open Activity Monitor, switch to the Energy tab, and sort by the "Preventing sleep" column. Some apps prevent macOS from sleeping.

In my case, I've discovered that Devonthink (document/notes management app) is responsible. I've been meaning to file a bug report about it.

I'm surprised that Apple's power management doesn't have an alert for this. Surely an app that causes my Mac to become glowing hot while sitting in my backpack, not to mention slowly running out of battery, is a pretty important thing to intercept. Meanwhile, I keep being asked if Chrome should be allowed to find devices on my network, which doesn't seem nearly as important.

>>atombe+xg
Maybe we need an app that’s like this and does it for apps that are in the business of keeping the Mac awake https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html

But that would require the app to at least register somewhere in advance to be able to achieve that, if not a full fledged permission.