Something (negative) i just discovered today

[losthismarbles]

If you've exhausted all troubleshooting options, take the nuclear option.

Won't because this is on Apple and, specifically, 26.4 induced; while not widespread, you can find -if inclined to google it- others having the exact same issue, also post 26.4.
(for some it was a Contacts issue, specifically names and numbers on a Mac not identical to those in iCloud, for others a matter of "duplicates"; for others it was a matter of removing a Contacts-related widget, if so added; for yet others repopulating the CallHistoryDB folder. None of these apply to me, already done or checked for respectively)

Might be the next update fixes it.
If not, i'll be downgrading to 15 soon enough either way, so.. not even gonna bother re-installing Tahoe.

i'm curious so tagging what you find in the "energy tab" for activity monitor.

While it's peopled initiating all this, the real culprit in terms of consumption is CallHistorySyncHelper.
When peopled starts dragging its pixelated behind, CallHistorySyncHelper goes crazy, lowest number i've seen on the energy tab is +1.400
Kill peopled, CallHistorySyncHelper calms down instantly.

* Funny part? There's nothing to sync. Nothing. The iPhone linked to this account, aka this Macbook too, is not used for phone calls, lol. No one has the number; hasn't rung once since i got it. And yet CallHistorySyncHelper has issues.. Go figure! Again, it's something Apple introduced with this update. Ask them 🙂

 

[dizmonk]

Sounds like it would have been fine without all of this.

If you've exhausted all troubleshooting options, take the nuclear option. Do a wipe and erase and verify that the vanilla plain machine without all your apps installed works well on battery.

I had to do with my M1 Mac Studio after a lot of funkiness and it helped.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I hope you figure this out.

I'm on Sequoia on my M4 and I've been blown away by the battery life.
It's incredibly good.

Something has gone rogue on you and is sucking power I think.

 

[dmr727]

I'm on Sequoia on my M4 and I've been blown away by the battery life.
It's incredibly good.

Same here. If I'm just doing day to day stuff, I'll use it for days before plugging in. Gaming is really the only thing I do that'll make me think of battery life in terms of hours, but that's to be expected.

 

[losthismarbles]

Nothing left for me to figure out. Have already done way more than the average consumer should ever have had to.

Next machine?
Built by me, component by component, running Linux.

This was all very educative, albeit frankly predictable.

A lot of flashy surface, all good if you like it as others serve it to you. Heaven forbid if one of the 1947455382 normally unkillable (and frankly, by me? Unwanted as well) processes has a hiccup. Heaven forbid if you want to do things your way.

I don't do social statements, i don't buy so as to join, so as to belong, or so as to think my life now has meaning.
So next up? I'll go and buy what works for me.
Bit of a shame this had to be a 4K euro experiment, but, live and learn 🙂

 

[1BadManVan]

Nothing left for me to figure out. Have already done way more than the average consumer should ever have had to.

Next machine?
Built by me, component by component, running Linux.

This was all very educative, albeit frankly predictable.

A lot of flashy surface, all good if you like it as others serve it to you. Heaven forbid if one of the 1947455382 normally unkillable (and frankly, by me? Unwanted as well) processes has a hiccup. Heaven forbid if you want to do things your way.

I don't do social statements, i don't buy so as to join, so as to belong, or so as to think my life now has meaning.
So next up? I'll go and buy what works for me.
Bit of a shame this had to be a 4K euro experiment, but, live and learn 🙂

Building your own linux os from scratch? If not, not going to ever avoid all issues and bugs, just is what it is. but definitely be frustrating as hell on your end dealing with this so I understand being fed up

 

[losthismarbles]

Building your own linux os from scratch?

I did say component by component, so as to indicate am talking about hardware 🙂
I don't need to do anything from scratch software-wise. ArchLinux? Where it is today? A child could install it.

archinstall - ArchWiki

But anyway, to keep it fair, this is a great platform (Apple's OS suites) for people that don't want to bother, just serve it to me.
And/or people "needing" "new" things every month, or they get bored or something; mayhap some existential crisis ensues.
It really is a great platform for both categories.

Am just used to having control. Am fighting this thing every day, they've got one way -their way- of doing things and that's it.
It just so happened that this specific time am fighting it because one of the myriad unneeded (by me) features is malfunctioning.
And i don't need the hassle 🙂

Again, just me.
My own aside, a warm, warm thank you to everyone taking the time to post. Much appreciated folks, really 🙂

 

[1BadManVan]

I did say component by component, so as to indicate am talking about hardware 🙂
I don't need to do anything from scratch software-wise. ArchLinux? Where it is today? A child could install it.

archinstall - ArchWiki

But anyway, to keep it fair, this is a great platform (Apple's OS suites) for people that don't want to bother, just serve it to me.
And/or people "needing" "new" things every month, or they get bored or something; mayhap some existential crisis ensues.
It really is a great platform for both categories.

Am just used to having control. Am fighting this thing every day, they've got one way -their way- of doing things and that's it.
It just so happened that this specific time am fighting it because one of the myriad unneeded (by me) features is malfunctioning.
And i don't need the hassle 🙂

Again, just me.
My own aside, a warm, warm thank you to everyone taking the time to post. Much appreciated folks, really 🙂

I was asking about Linux software because your main issue isn't a hardware issue, it's software. Just saying

anyways, good luck

 

[losthismarbles]

Sorted!

It really is about Contacts widgets, just like i kept reading in other posts; this is what starts this..
Now of course i didn't have any Contact widget installed, so mistakenly thought it was something else for me.
Nope.

Quoting me from another forum:

" My case? Had an Automation -> Shortcut running that does involve my Contacts list.
(had it running since i made it last summer, had totally forgotten all about it)
You even open Shortcuts to look at it, don't even have to run it, just being in the list suffices, peopled spikes.
Same way -the Reddit Widget thing made me look at this- even opening the "Edit Widgets" makes peopled spike. Because yes, there's a contact widget in there; yet again, you don't even have to have it running to initiate this, you open the widgets list, all it needs to start spiking.
Likewise with my Shortcut, meaning likewise if you have Shortcuts in iCloud sync.

Saved it on an external HDD for future use and removed it entirely "

So all's well that ends well on this one.
Now we wait until Apple fixes whatever it is they did with 26.4.0 🙂

 

[hobowankenobi]

Good to hear the mystery is solved. Thanks for posting!

As for switching platforms...always an option. Pros and Cons, everybody has to weigh their own.

 

[turbineseaplane]

So all's well that ends well on this one.
Now we wait until Apple fixes whatever it is they did with 26.4.0 🙂

On my M4, I went back to Sequoia.
My main reason is that I have a 13" and the extra padding all over the UI is not welcome at all on a 13" screen.

I really hope 27 has that reduced or even more optional somehow in settings.

So much of Tahoe is too white, too low contrast and with too much padding.

 

[losthismarbles]

Pros and Cons, everybody has to weigh their own.

Yeap 🙂

Perfect platform? Does not exist ^^
Bitch is, it could be made though.. i just don't have the skill set required; obviously 🙂

OS10 era level of customisations possible + modular + open source.
Man can dream..

* i said customisations; don't start on me!

 

[DSN_2026]

Sounds like it would have been fine without all of this.

If you've exhausted all troubleshooting options, take the nuclear option. Do a wipe and erase and verify that the vanilla plain machine without all your apps installed works well on battery.

I've seen that you don't use any apple sync services, but i'll take a shot...
Had the same problem (peopled + callhistorydb) for more than a month, what helped me, was turning off icloud sync specifically in contacts app. I know you don't use any, but even iphones without contacts get 5gb free icloud storage that might be linked to syncing. It's worth a check.

P.s. to retain contacts on my mac, i exported them to google and connected it to the contacts app.