Battery health increased 81 --> 85% after disabling charge limit (AlDente)

[SmOgER]

Just thought that is worthy of sharing. I've seen my battery health drop like 8% percent in the past 9 months which I thought was rather much. Decided to stop using AlDente and would you look like that... it went right back up solid mid-way lol.

NOTE: I realize that the actual battery capacity did NOT change. What happened there instead is it re-calibrated itself after seeing the full charge state, or in a sense adjusted the forecasted capacity it calculated to match the real capacity battery accepted the charge for when showing 100%. I was aware that for calibration you do need to occasionally charge it fully and I did just that. But it turns out "occasionally" is still not really enough, not if the OS isn't in sync with the 3rd party app charging limit at least..

 

[Cmd031304]

AlDente interferes with battery management, so this is not really surprising.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

I recall there were long discussion in the past as to why Apple health % varied to AlDente but also Coconut.

Turned out that they’re measured differently but the exact explanation eludes me. I might even have stated the thread but cannot find it atm.

I’ve been a long term user of AlDente Pro and it has indeed been fantastic for me. Last I checked my 3 1/2 year old M2 still showed 100% with Apple (hmm) and 97% with AlDente, which for me seems more realistic. Have you ever calibrated the battery with AlDente as per their instructions?


Edit: as soon as my MBP is back from Apple hospital I’ll check on my readings but I’ve never seen this behaviour, if anything else, there were only positives.

Edit 2: ok so not mine, but another thread explaining variations in health. It‘s this one here #4 from @Mike Boreham