macOS Sonoma Optimizes Latest 13-Inch MacBook Air's Battery Health

[techfreak23]

That's nice. The battery life is already incredible. I haven't charged mine since before I left for a trip last weekend and it's at 77% right now. 9 days with minimal use.

 

[wes2006ag]

My battery health was at 91% after a year on the 13 MBA before I traded it in for a 15 MBA. I thought that was a bit odd.

 

[applesith]

This is great to hear and I hope it makes a noticeable difference. I upgraded from my M1 to M2 and noticed the M2 not holding the same charge (or delivering the same hours of use) compared to my M1. I guess it may not just be me.

 

[DreamsOfGrandeur]

My battery health was at 91% after a year on the 13 MBA before I traded it in for a 15 MBA. I thought that was a bit odd.

That does seem odd. I’ve had mine for more than a year now and the battery health is still at 98%. Maybe I just coddle the battery more.

 

[sledgehammer89]

What about MacBook Pro M2? The one with the same CPU as MacBook Air M2.

 

[t0rqx]

Don't the M1 machines do that too? My M1 14" MBP does this, it decides when its going to fully charge etc.

It needs the power of M2 to make better AI calculations for this featurez

 

[nintendoswitch]

great! now just add an option to limit to 80% charge on all macbooks including the M2! i hate using 3rd party apps for this...

 

[svish]

Good to know about this.

 

[Alex Cai]

Don't the M1 machines do that too? My M1 14" MBP does this, it decides when its going to fully charge etc.

Try Aldente for full control

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It needs AlDente.

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[Alex Cai]

Apple, just buy Al Dente and embed it into MacOS.

Also IOS

 

[MrGunny94]

Apple, just buy Al Dente and embed it into MacOS.

Yeah pretty much what they should do at this point

 

[kiranmk2]

Apple, just buy Al Dente and embed it into MacOS.

Also IOS

If you have an iPhone 15, there is now an option to limit the charging to 80%. No user options beyond this though (e.g. set the max charge level, sailing mode, override 1 time etc).

Actually, thinking about it if Apple did buy Al Dente, I can imagine most of the user control being removed...

 

[jonnysods]

Try Aldente for full control

Home - AppHouseKitchen

It needs AlDente.

apphousekitchen.com

Wow this looks pretty interesting thanks for this!

 

[CarAnalogy]

Reading the Apple Speak between the lines, it sounds like they actually just fixed a bug that was preventing this already existing feature from working properly on this model.