macOS 11.3 Could Ensure Your Mac is Fully Charged in Time for Calendar Events

[MacRumors]

Apple appears to be planning a meeting-friendly improvement to its Optimized Battery Charging feature on the Mac in macOS 11.3.

New code in the second beta of macOS 11.3, discovered by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser, suggests that the upcoming software update will ensure a Mac is fully charged to 100% prior to a scheduled calendar event, such as a meeting.

macOS 11.3 will ensure that a Mac finishes charging to 100% three hours prior to a calendar event's start time, the code suggests, although the exact timing may vary depending on whether an alert is set for the calendar event.

Macs running macOS 10.15.5 or later have an Optimized Battery Charging feature that helps to reduce wear on the battery and improve its lifespan by learning the user's daily charging routine. The feature delays charging the battery past 80% when it predicts the user will be connected to power for an extended period of time, and aims to charge the battery before they unplug from power, according to Apple.

Optimized Battery Charging can be toggled on or off in System Preferences > Battery > Battery on both Intel-based and M1-based Macs, but there are certain other battery health management features that cannot be disabled on M1-based Macs.

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[Captain Trips]

Interesting. It would be nice to also have a notification if you are coming up on a meeting, your battery needs charging, and the Mac isn't plugged into a charging device.

Especially given the great battery life in the M1 MacBooks. Well, some of us are getting great battery life.

 

[BF1M]

How about it just charges as much and as fast as possible when I plug it in?

 

[NT1440]

How about it just charges as much and as fast as possible when I plug it in?

Because that decreases the overall lifespan of the battery. This is a feature for macs that are plugged in most of the time. It prevents it from being charged fully all the time which is also bad for lithium based batteries.

If you use it unplugged frequently it will do exactly what you’re expecting, but this article is discussing a subset feature of Battery Optimization which is different from your use case.

 

[BF1M]

Because that decreases the overall lifespan of the battery. This is a feature for macs that are plugged in most of the time. It prevents it from being charged fully all the time which is also bad for lithium based batteries.

If you use it unplugged frequently it will do exactly what you’re expecting, but this article is discussing a subset feature of Battery Optimization which is different from your use case.

Sigh...only on MacRumors....

 

[Neberheim]

I’ve been waiting for this. I hope that iOS will get a similar feature using the sleep/wake alarm.

How about it just charges as much and as fast as possible when I plug it in?

Like it does when you turn optimizing charging off?

 

[HappyDude20]

I’ve never needed this and never will. I’m good at charging my mac. Apple believes they still own the device and can do whatever they like with the software and hardware even after you bought it.

 

[Prof.]

I’ve mentioned before, I wish i could manually control when my iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro charges.

 

[BF1M]

I’ve mentioned before, I wish i could manually control when my iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro charges.

Wait let me try this....Ahem " Der you mean like when you connect it to a charger? Hardy Har Har..."

 

[Mr. Dee]

Being on a 2015 MBP for so many years, I kinda suffered a bit of battery PTSD because of all the improvements to battery life improvements Apple added to subsequent revisions since. Now that I am on the M1, it feels great to have all those accumulated benefits plus the already great 20 hour battery life. Based on my usage, I sometimes go for weeks without charging my battery. If you want to really make it last long, avoid using Chrome and Firefox, but I am browser agnostic, so I can't. But when it comes to battery life, Apple has always focused on innovating. Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly was dismissive of the M1 claiming battery life improvements compared to Windows notebooks has been minimal. It was such a silly response. Mary Jo Foley in the next window contested that by saying Windows notebooks never really live up to their promoted battery life improvements, in fact, most time she only gets 4 hours.

 

[BeefCake 15]

I’ve never needed this and never will. I’m good at charging my mac. Apple believes they still own the device and can do whatever they like with the software and hardware even after you bought it.

Whatchu talking about Willis?!

 

[baryon]

Good idea but I hope this can be turned off. I like the ability to reduce battery wear by not charging past 80% but my calendar events have absolutely nothing to do with me needing my computer charged.

 

[Prof.]

Wait let me try this....Ahem " Der you mean like when you connect it to a charger? Hardy Har Har..."

Hahahaha okay i like you.

 

[badatusernames]

All of this is cool but just give me a first party solution to manually toggle this.

 

[Apple Freak]

Because that decreases the overall lifespan of the battery. This is a feature for macs that are plugged in most of the time. It prevents it from being charged fully all the time which is also bad for lithium based batteries.

If you use it unplugged frequently it will do exactly what you’re expecting, but this article is discussing a subset feature of Battery Optimization which is different from your use case.

Sigh...only on MacRumors....

NT1440 had a well stated response to the question.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

This is a great feature. They need to revamped the optimized battery with the iPhones.

 

[BF1M]

NT1440 had a well stated response to the question.

Yes, yes he did.

 

[Crzyrio]

I’ve never needed this and never will. I’m good at charging my mac. Apple believes they still own the device and can do whatever they like with the software and hardware even after you bought it.

The 99% of other people, will benefit from things like this.

 

[macduke]

Great, now my MacBook Pro will always be charging to 100% because I have meetings all day and work from home. Hopefully I'll be able to turn this off to help my battery health. Especially because most of the time I'm using my 5K iMac so my MBP would be charging to 100% for no reason.

 

[itsmeaustend]

Sigh...only on MacRumors....

What, a logical response?

 

[jerryk]

Neat idea. I just hope the facility (such as an API) is available for non-Apple calendar apps like Outlook and Google Calendar.

 

[ececlv]

Never mind.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

As long as it works with MS Office and Outlook/Teams meetings. I can't see my company leaving the Microsoft ecosystem, ever.

 

[robbietop]

Will it remind me to put on pants, also?

 

[vicviper789]

I’m finna have meetings every 5 minutes then to make that laptop charge fast as possible