Why My Mac Rebooted

You can find the previous shutdown cause on your Mac by running the following command in Terminal

log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --last 24h

If Mac has shutdown in the time specified, you should see messages such as Previous Shutdown Cause: followed by a number. The number is a cryptic shutdown code representing the cause of the shutdown.

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