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Why do Macbook Pro's Drain Battery While "Sleeping"?
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We are ALL keeping our fingers crossed. Let's hope something happens with this. Thanks for posting the update.
OMG. I recently did the same thing. I picked up an iPad that I had in storage for over a year while I was living in another country. I was amazed to find over 50% battery remaining...
I am struggling with the same issues you all have. For me it seems to be the "com.apple.cloudphotosd.darkwake.sync" that pops up in the log every night. Can anyone suggest a way I can disable this?
Hello all. I too was experiencing the battery drain on my 13inch rMBP 2015. I have tried most (not all as people are suggesting so many different things) of the solutions offered and the problem still existed. I have spent several hours on the phone with Apple reps running diagnostics, changing power save options and that was a waste of time.
I took my MBP to the Genius Bar and the genius rep told me my ram was working double time for me not to have very many programs open so he recommended a clean install of the OS. I monitored the machine for a few days and I did not install any new programs, but the drain returned. I still have AppleCare so I sent the machine in for repair. My mbp was returned within two days and the battery and logic board were replaced. I am not experiencing the drain now but I'm also not optimistic about the drain not returning as I'm not sure the replacements done by apple truly address the issue. I will keep the thread updated.
I took my MBP to the Genius Bar and the genius rep told me my ram was working double time for me not to have very many programs open so he recommended a clean install of the OS. I monitored the machine for a few days and I did not install any new programs, but the drain returned. I still have AppleCare so I sent the machine in for repair. My mbp was returned within two days and the battery and logic board were replaced. I am not experiencing the drain now but I'm also not optimistic about the drain not returning as I'm not sure the replacements done by apple truly address the issue. I will keep the thread updated.
Thank you for this, it worked for me : I've launched pmset, and realised
com.apple.iohideventsystem was active. I've googled it to find that bluetooth was activated..
I've suffering from this for a long time as well on my MacBook Pro but have come to a conclusion that it appears to be related to running Safari while sleeping or quit it before sleeping.
With Safari running the drain is very high.
If I quit Safari - but have all other ordinary apps running - while I set it to sleep, the battery is keeping its charge much better.
With Safari running the drain is very high.
If I quit Safari - but have all other ordinary apps running - while I set it to sleep, the battery is keeping its charge much better.
That’s good to know. I’ll try it. I’ve pretty much given up. I’ve tried everything possible in this thread and on the internet.
Well, that’s what I do, but that’s not a solution, it’s a necessity. Thanks for the words of wisdom.
It is likely something opened in Safari and not Safari itself. I sleep my MBP all the time and I always run Safari in background. I have little to no loss of battery (typically 1-3 % per night). 1-3% battery loss over night is expected. My Safari has 10+ tabs opened all the time.
However, I run Ghostery Lite in my Safari and that seems pretty good at blocking all high-cpu content many pages are trying to push on my system. If one or more of your pages opened in Safari are running something heavy - and that even somehow prevents proper sleep - you will loose a lot of power overnight guaranteed.
Also, some Safari extensions themselves may be running some high cpu load processes. Be aware - recently some here seemed to be "infected" by coin mining processes which likely were probably run by "helpful" Safari extensions.
Check in Activity monitor.app how much cpu is Safari using and - if it is higher than few % try to figure out which page or extension is causing it. Remove that or block whatever scripts it is using and you can leave Safari on all the time.
For reference - at this moment my Safari, with 10 tabs opened, is using ~ 1% of cpu across all related processes combined when I am not actively using it - including Ghostery Lite process.. With spikes to up to 10% when I am typing etc.
Well us Boston folks can't sweep every series and win every title - but it does seem like it huh
Red Sox, Patriots (as always) and now the Bruins will most likely bring home the cup in six. Damn underachieving Celtics ruined our four team in a row title grand slam.Seriously, we are some lucky sport fans to live in the Boston area. I feel for those cities that maybe win one every 25 years in only one of the four sports. We SO take winning titles for granted. It's become expected around here.
[doublepost=1561388839][/doublepost]I don't think it's Safari. I never use Safari and have had this issue for at least a year now, probably longer.
I did a lot of researches for a few months and I think I fixed my issue. I have make the MacBook Pro Retina 2014 to hibernate in 10 seconds instead of the default 3 hours.
In Terminal, run the below commands one by one:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25
sudo pmset -a standby 1
sudo pmset -a standbydelaylow 10
sudo pmset -a standbydelayhigh 10
sudo pmset -a autopoweroffdelay 60
To check your status:
pmset -g
pmset -g stats
Below are the default for my Mac, in case I need to revert to default settings:
hibernatemode 3 (Default)
standby 1 (Default)
standbydelaylow 10800 (Default)
standbydelayhigh 86400 (Default)
AutoPowerOff Delay 28800 (Default)
It’s also worth noting that Apple has the following requirements for standby mode to kick in:
Be running on battery power.
Have no USB devices attached.
Have no SD card inserted.
Have no Bluetooth devices currently paired.
Have no external display attached.
Have Power Nap disabled (if it is supported on your Mac).
Some helpful websites:
https://www.lifewire.com/change-mac-sleep-settings-2260804
https://www.dssw.co.uk/reference/pmset.html
https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-fix-macos-mojave-battery-draining-issue/
https://www.tecklyfe.com/how-to-improve-macos-mojave-battery-life/
https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...nce-between-autopoweroff-and-standby-in-pmset
In Terminal, run the below commands one by one:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25
sudo pmset -a standby 1
sudo pmset -a standbydelaylow 10
sudo pmset -a standbydelayhigh 10
sudo pmset -a autopoweroffdelay 60
To check your status:
pmset -g
pmset -g stats
Below are the default for my Mac, in case I need to revert to default settings:
hibernatemode 3 (Default)
standby 1 (Default)
standbydelaylow 10800 (Default)
standbydelayhigh 86400 (Default)
AutoPowerOff Delay 28800 (Default)
It’s also worth noting that Apple has the following requirements for standby mode to kick in:
Be running on battery power.
Have no USB devices attached.
Have no SD card inserted.
Have no Bluetooth devices currently paired.
Have no external display attached.
Have Power Nap disabled (if it is supported on your Mac).
Some helpful websites:
https://www.lifewire.com/change-mac-sleep-settings-2260804
https://www.dssw.co.uk/reference/pmset.html
https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-fix-macos-mojave-battery-draining-issue/
https://www.tecklyfe.com/how-to-improve-macos-mojave-battery-life/
https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...nce-between-autopoweroff-and-standby-in-pmset
This solved it for me!!!
I had the same problem on my new Macbook Pro, it drained about 30-40% in only 6 hours while sleeping.
The problem in my case was iCloud. I have the desktop and documents folders synced (I think most users have this because its the default setting) but the cloud storage was full since my folders contain alot of large files. I guess iCloud was constantly trying to sync and sending me notifications telling me it was full, even in sleep mode.
I moved all my files from the documents folder and now the computer can sleep for days without losing battery!
I had the same problem on my new Macbook Pro, it drained about 30-40% in only 6 hours while sleeping.
The problem in my case was iCloud. I have the desktop and documents folders synced (I think most users have this because its the default setting) but the cloud storage was full since my folders contain alot of large files. I guess iCloud was constantly trying to sync and sending me notifications telling me it was full, even in sleep mode.
I moved all my files from the documents folder and now the computer can sleep for days without losing battery!
So I *think* the upgrade to Catalina may have resolved the drain. I say this cautiously because it's been two years with no resolution and I thought it was fixed many times. I'll report back!
I know this thread is about sleep mode but are there any settings that can cause battery drain when machine is powered off? My entry MBP 2019 is draining battery easily 1-2% per day and it seems to more or less multiply by day if not using it, like I just recently had it turned off for 5 days it it lost about 5% battery but then again yesterday it lost about 4% within just maybe 8 hours turned off.
I think this is simply that my battery has aged in just about about 30 charge cycles even it still pass all the tests and claim health is 100%. It was better when I got this, so I think the reason is pretty obvious but just checking in case there is something that can use battery even when turned off?
I think this is simply that my battery has aged in just about about 30 charge cycles even it still pass all the tests and claim health is 100%. It was better when I got this, so I think the reason is pretty obvious but just checking in case there is something that can use battery even when turned off?