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Amphetamine keeps your Mac awake, which stops the instant away flip that sleep causes. It creates no keyboard or mouse input, so the 10-minute idle timer still turns you gray. What it fixes, what it cannot, and what to pair it with.

No. Slack's presence API gives a coworker only active or away, with no device. The phone shows up in one place, your account's access log, which paid-plan admins can export.

No. Slack shows coworkers a present-tense dot and never a last-seen time. On paid plans, admins get a Last active date per member. Who sees what, and how to find someone's last message.

No. The Slack desktop app reads one number, how long the computer has been idle, plus each device's connection state. It does not record your mouse path, your screen or your keystrokes. The check, printed from the app's code.

Slack in a browser tab follows the same 10-minute timer as the desktop app, with two extra ways to die: tab discarding and the browser closing. What counts as input in a tab, the Memory Saver and sleeping-tabs exceptions, and when the tab beats the app.

A Chromebook runs Slack two ways, a browser tab or the Android app, and they follow different presence rules. The ChromeOS power settings that stop the instant away, the Memory Saver trap, what works on managed school and work devices, and what does not.

The Slack desktop app shows you active while there was keyboard or mouse input on the computer, and away after about 10 minutes without it. Our presence test with tabs and Set yourself as active, and how to show that you are in a meeting instead.

A mouse jiggler keeps the Slack desktop app active while the computer is awake and unlocked, and stops with the lid. A server-side tool does not need the computer. What each costs and where each fails.

O Slack marca você como ausente 10 minutos depois da última entrada de teclado ou mouse no computador. Há três jeitos de ficar ativo sem mouse: um segundo aparelho, entrada simulada no computador ou um serviço no servidor.

On Linux the away flip comes from two places: Slack's 10-minute idle timer and your desktop's idle-blank-suspend chain. The GNOME and KDE settings that stop sleep-away, what systemd-inhibit and Caffeine cannot do, and the xdotool route with its Wayland limit.

Presence Scheduler pings the Slack API to stop away flips and adds a Chrome extension on your machine for the green dot. Slack Green holds the whole session from a cloud server. The mechanism difference decides which fits you.

Slack Green and StayGreenOnSlack are the two closest products in the server-side presence category: both keep your Slack status active from the cloud on a schedule. The real differences are setup, the self-hosted option, languages, the API, and price.

Slack feels trigger-happy because the timer is shorter than people expect, 10 minutes without keyboard or mouse input, and three common events skip it entirely. Each trigger has a tell and a fix.

Slack decides you are away from four signals: keyboard or mouse input on your computer, its sleep and lock state, whether the phone app is on screen, and the manual away setting. The desktop app reads the computer's idle time every 10 seconds.

Slack on Android reports you active only while the app is visible with the screen on. The settings that hold that state: screen timeout, the developer-options Stay awake switch, split screen, and why exempting Slack from battery optimization does not touch the green dot.

Slack on an iPhone reports you active only while the app is open and the screen is on. The iOS settings that keep it that way: Auto-Lock, Guided Access, the Low Power Mode trap, and the old-iPhone kiosk recipe, plus what no setting can do.

The Slack app keeps you active only while it is open on screen, and you go away seconds after you lock the phone or switch apps. How to keep it on screen for hours on iPhone and Android, why notifications do not count, and how to stay green with the app closed.

The Slack desktop app sets you away 10 minutes after your last keyboard or mouse input on the computer, and no setting turns that off. The desktop fixes for Mac, Windows and Linux, in the order they fail.

Windows flips you to away three ways: Slack's 10-minute idle timer, screen sleep and lock, and on work laptops an IT lock policy you cannot change. What each fix covers, what Caffeine and PowerToys Awake miss, and what works with the lid closed.

A Mac flips you to away two ways: Slack's 10-minute idle timer and macOS sleep, which cuts the dot in seconds. The settings that stop sleep-away, what caffeinate and Amphetamine miss, and what keeps the dot green with the lid closed.

How Slack decides the green dot, with a test in the Slack web app on 30 September 2026: the four dot states, why posting does not undo a manual Away, and why status text never moves the dot.

To set out of office in Slack, click your profile picture, choose Update your status, pick Out of office (Enterprise) or a custom status such as a palm tree, and set when it clears. Enterprise plans also send your OOO message to anyone who mentions you. Steps, auto-reply options and examples.

No Slack setting turns the away status off or changes the 10-minute timer. You stop Slack from showing you as away by fixing each trigger: the manual toggle, the idle timer, sleep and lock, and extra devices. Steps for each, and what each method covers.

Slack sets you away about 10 minutes after your last keyboard or mouse input, at once when the last Slack window closes, and for as long as a manual away is on, even while you type. We measured each in a real workspace.

The Slack desktop app sets you away 10 minutes after your last keyboard or mouse input in any app, and no setting changes that. Six ways to keep Slack active, what each one covers, and where each one stops.

xoxc- is the token the Slack web client sends as a Bearer header, one per workspace. xoxd- is the d cookie. Slack rejects either one alone. Where to find both and how to use them.

Slack stays active for 10 minutes after your last keyboard or mouse input on a computer, and only while the app is on screen on a phone. Sleep or screen lock sets you away at once. Every timer, what resets it, and how long a status lasts.

Schedule a Slack status from the status editor: Duration, then Choose a start and end time. Slack holds up to five, each runs once. How to make a status repeat, and what scheduling cannot change.

Click your profile photo, then Set yourself as away. Your dot turns hollow grey, the same dot people see when you are signed out. Steps for desktop and phone, what admins see, and five things that still show.

The Z on a Slack dot means notifications are paused. We tested every state in the Slack web app on 30 September 2026, with screenshots of all four dots and what Resume notifications, /dnd off and focus mode really do.