2020 MBP 13 Battery Drain

[OMGWTFBBQ]

Hi all - hoping other members might be able to help me out: My new 2020 13" MBP using Chrome, Slack, Spotify, and Word Processing (aka general day-to-day work stuff) drops my battery from 100 to 50 percent in 1 hour 55 minutes. I timed it on my stopwatch today. Granted, my screen brightness is set at 100 percent. Still, this feels incredibly fast to drain battery on a device rated for 10 hours of web browsing.

Aside from a 30 minute google hangout call, I'm not doing any hard core video transcoding or gaming. So I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my MBP. Or if other people are experiencing similar terrible battery life?

Appreciate your help/insight! Thanks.

 

[gautampw]

Chrome and Slack are the reasons. Apple's results for web browsing are using Safari.

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

Chrome and Slack are the reasons. Apple's results for web browsing are using Safari.

Thanks for the reply. So my numbers are consistent with what other people are experiencing? (now at 40 percent, after 2 hours 30 min).

 

[Jas-Singh685]

Same laptop here. On good days (light browsing and YouTube, 25% screen brightness as it's usually at night), I'm generally above 80% after two hours. That's with only Safari, Steam, WhatsApp and Apple Music open. I don't even have any Google applications installed on this machine, but I'd imagine Chrome especially would drain the battery much faster than the MacOS optimised Safari.

I'd try using Safari and keeping away from Chrome for a while, keeping it totally closed, see if that helps. Screen brightness can make a big difference too.

 

[CheesePuff]

I easily got 8-9 hours with web browsing in Safari, using Mail and Messages. If you use Chrome and Electron apps (Slack, Teams, etc) it will eat your battery life.

edit: saw you said 100% screen brightness.. that's the main reason. anything that is in the top 3 notches of screen brightness eat away battery just as much

 

[OMGWTFBBQ]

Thanks for the replies all. Sounds like it’s typical battery life. Still, I think Apple’s claimed 10 hours are a bit disingenuous considering the applications I listed are by no means exotic, and common in the “pro” community this is intended for. I’ll try turning down the screen brightness.