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mottstreet

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Jan 3, 2019
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When I don't have my MacBook plugged in for a few days, the next time I open it I often find that the battery is at 5% or less. I know that running the battery all the way down is really bad for it so on Windows I had always set it to automatically hibernate if the battery gets down to 15%-20% or so. (It's also nice to always have at least some battery left for emergencies.)

Is there a way to configure macOS to go into hibernation mode when the battery reaches a certain level so that the battery doesn't drains completely?
 

Howard2k

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Mar 10, 2016
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It should hibernate by default, but the settings sometimes get messed up.
If you do: pmset -g from Terminal while the laptop is running on battery, what does it show? It may be that those settings need to be tweaked. I did a fresh install of Mojave and mine were all messed up.
 
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