It would seem that there is something glitchy in either the hardware and software still, but hopefully it's just a SMC/NVRAM reset fix for many.Do you know How To Customize The New MacBook Pro TouchBar? Ever on account that Apple launched the Late 2016 MacBook lineup, apparently, everybody has been speaking about the touch Bar. I keep my keyboard lighting low and brightness around 75%.Īnyway, that's been my experience, and I'm now very happy with the machine and thrilled that I don't feel the battery anxiety I once had. I turn it back on when I'm working on more intensive applications or plugged in. Performance doesn't seem to be affected when doing light usage. I found this adds around an hour of battery life back and the milliamp output can drop around 400 during light usage. I'm going to see if I run into the issue again while Power Nap is on charge, will report if it occurs again.ĭownloaded Turbo Boost Switcher to disable Turbo Boost. Though several of these were negligible, some suggested S4B and Adobe may be eating up more resources and some have reported improvements.ĭue to the recharge incident, I decided to disable Power Nap while on battery.
Revisited my startup apps in Login Items and removed things like Skype for Business, Adobe Creative Cloud and several update checkers. After doing so, voila! 9-10+ hours of battery life!īut not only that, I've been able to extend the battery even more so, doing some additional suggestions that the forums have suggested.: The last time I did so, I found the machine running hot and I noticed the fan was going nuts. Both put the machine at roughly 3-4 hours of battery time and on BG, I had an average ~1100 Milliamp output.Īssuming the higher output was the screen, kept brightness to 75% and reduced keyboard lighting to its lowest setting.Ĭonfirmed Spotlight, Photos and iCloud had finished indexing before making a judgement.Įven after all of the above, still 3-4 hours.īut then: I noticed something was amiss when charging the device. I have been using Fruitjuice and Battery Guru to monitor and verify usage time and energy output. This was playing Spotify, writing emails, and surfing Safari only.
See below.Īs mentioned, my average was 3-4 hours with light usage. The Milliamp output has been cut nearly in half to ~600 and the machine is significantly cooler during light usage. I was shocked, but was able to verify the change based on using the Battery Guru app. After doing both, my time remaining shot from 3-4 hours to 9-10 hours and even longer with further tweaks. The largest change in my case was as some suggested, an SMC reset AND a NVRAM Reset.
After some extensive trial and error, I have remedied my battery woes! Sharing out in case it helps any of you. Received a new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar 15" as well, and like several of you, was shocked by the short battery life, even with the software updates.
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