MacBook M3 Pro Max with optimized battery charging, battery stays at 80%. Orange light on MagSafe usually indicates charging, but it is not charging with optimized battery. Is there a way to make the light green or another color for this situation?

Yeah, since it's in the MagSafe plug itself I figured there wasn't much to do about it. As far as the suggestion for a different colored light, I think it is a good idea also, which is why I suggested it, but as far as feedback, I'm a bit feedbacked out. I just sent a security and privacy report after talking to four different AppleCare representatives including a senior advisor, last week, regarding what may be an operating system bug, but I can't find out. Nothing I tried to remedy the situation, from safe mode to guest user to reinstalling the OS helped on my roughly one month old MacBook M3 Pro Max. I submitted the report because there is potentially a privacy concern, but I got word back that they did not find a security issue. I left another comment in which I asked whether they could reproduce the issue, so I could know if it's a operating system or hardware issue, or something only on my system, and if they just didn't consider it a security issue regardless of it it's a bug or not, and they sent me another notice of an update in the case, where I saw that the case was closed, and I could not make another comment.

I understand the behavior, I was just saying that after years of viewing Amber as the process of charging, I guess it takes a while to get over that it is not actively doing something. I do leave it as it is--it took about three weeks to train it since I got my MacBook--it started its visible calibration activity after about two weeks. I was just suggesting a third color for the 80% setpoint or so when it is on optimized battery, although I can easily look at my top menu bar to see the percentage charged. I wonder if it's beneficial to maybe once or twice a month let it go down another 20% or else charge it to full and let it go down again to keep it from being in a rut if it ever ever gets in a rut from being at 80% all the time.

Well, that's what it's supposed to do, but it may not be perfect. As far as I can tell it keeps it at 80% if you basically use your MacBook like a desktop. The battery management app Al Dente, claiming they get their information from Battery University, has a paid upgrade that supposedly maintains your battery calibration by periodically discharging it to 0% or 15% (I've seen them say both) maybe twice a month, claiming that keeping it at 80% it will affect the accuracy of the calibration. Maybe they are just trying to make money with the extra feature upgrade. From my experience, discharging the battery to 0% permanently decreases the maximum charge capacity by several mAh. Unless, and here's the catch, what seems like a reduction in maximum charge capacity, is actually a more accurate recalibration. But I doubt that.

I'm not sure why it's at 97% but that sometimes happened before so-called optimized bought recharging feature was added and it had a built-in feature that let it drain to about 97% before charging up again. Unplug your charger from the wall outlet for a minute or two, and also unplug and replug the USB cable from the charger. Sometimes so-called dirty electrical signals in the wall plug keep the charger from operating properly.

I would not even use free their app, let alone they're paid one. What Apple instituted is sufficient. Plus I don't trust their knowledge of batteries. I do use the free version of Coconut Battery.