To put it in a simple way, SMC is in charge of the performance of your Mac hardware.
SMC controls some basic hardware settings of your Mac, such as thermal and battery management, power button response, lights and indicators blinking, temperature monitoring and keyboard backlighting. SMC, the acronym of System Management Controller, refers to a chip responsible for running smaller hardware processes. The following content teaches you how to reset SMC on different Mac models. However, the steps to reset SMC on MacBook, MacBook Air, iMac, and Mac Mini are not the same.
People will need to reset the SMC on Mac when experiencing strange performance like chaotic volume settings.
SMC is an important hardware that manages low level settings.
