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what I want to know is why does my MBP stop charging at 80%, unless I make it 'charge to full' via battery icon?
It's all explained here. Although my MBP is to 99% plugged in, I never had consistency for optimised charging to be effective on my MBP. As a matter of fact, my iP also had optimised charging only working for the first 6 months and then all became hit and miss with all required criteria met. You can probably tell I'm not a fan...only because of this contrariety.
 
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