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Q: Battery life issue after upgrading to macOS Sierra

I used my MacBook Pro Retina 15" Late 2013 that have battery life for 6-7 hours. But after I have upgraded to new macOS Sierra I got battery life for 5 hours only... This is very disappointed, if there was no solutions, I will downgrade it.

 

Anyone have any solutions or suggestions?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 20, 2016 6:34 PM

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  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt Sep 26, 2016 11:28 AM in response to ospthegeek
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    Sep 26, 2016 11:28 AM in response to ospthegeek

    ospthegeek

     

    If you decide your question has become lost in a bunch of irrelevant and distracting replies accumulated over a long period of time (as appears to be occuring with this one), just post a new Discussion. Optionally, consider replying to yourself with something like "closed but not solved" to let others know you still need help. After creating that new question, including a link to it in that reply can be helpful.

     


  • by White303,

    White303 White303 Sep 27, 2016 9:46 PM in response to ospthegeek
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    Sep 27, 2016 9:46 PM in response to ospthegeek

    After almost 3 hours on w support, still no solution here. I'm hoping an update comes out before my computer bursts out into flames.

     

    Reset SMC, booted up in safe mode, booted up in recovery mode and did a check of the disk, nothing there.

     

    Here's my screenshot of Activity. Seems to be secd, whatever that is. If anyone has ideas, let me know!Screen Shot 2016-09-27 at 10.44.31 PM.png

  • by scarlatescu,

    scarlatescu scarlatescu Sep 28, 2016 12:47 AM in response to White303
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    Sep 28, 2016 12:47 AM in response to White303

    MBP 2015 and the issue is GoogleDrive and GoogleChrome for me. No solution yet

  • by def_floor,

    def_floor def_floor Sep 30, 2016 12:13 PM in response to ospthegeek
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    Sep 30, 2016 12:13 PM in response to ospthegeek

    Same battery drain issues. Used to get 6-7 hours with my Macbook Pro Mid-2014. Since installing Sierra, now getting 2 hours on full charge.

  • by dzh2010,

    dzh2010 dzh2010 Oct 2, 2016 12:50 AM in response to White303
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    Oct 2, 2016 12:50 AM in response to White303

    You have to reset Default Keychain from "Keychain Access" - "Preferences" and re-login to iCloud. After that "secd" process will stop to drain battery.

  • by teeco101,

    teeco101 teeco101 Oct 3, 2016 10:53 PM in response to ospthegeek
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    Oct 3, 2016 10:53 PM in response to ospthegeek

    Hey guys, so i figured the new resource hogging features probably did something. If you go to settings, then the Siri settings and disable Siri, that really helps, pretty much brought my battery back up to normal times. Hope it helps!!

     

    I have a mid 2014 Retina MacBook Pro, 2.6Ghz i5, 8 gigs of ram.

  • by teeco101,

    teeco101 teeco101 Oct 3, 2016 10:54 PM in response to def_floor
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    Oct 3, 2016 10:54 PM in response to def_floor

    Hey i figured the new resource hogging features probably did something. If you go to settings, then the Siri settings and disable Siri, that really helps, pretty much brought my battery back up to normal times. Hope it helps!!

  • by republicofheaven,

    republicofheaven republicofheaven Oct 5, 2016 12:54 PM in response to ospthegeek
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    Oct 5, 2016 12:54 PM in response to ospthegeek

    If turning off Spotlight Indexing doesn't help, which it didn't for me, check to see if iCloud Keychain is turned on. Turning on iCloud Keychain increased my battery life from 2.5 hours (back) to 7 hours.

  • by ralfkrause,

    ralfkrause ralfkrause Oct 6, 2016 4:46 AM in response to ospthegeek
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    Oct 6, 2016 4:46 AM in response to ospthegeek

    I've the same problem on my 12" MacBook.

    Before the upgrade I could use it without charging for 8 to 10 hours of working.

    Now it's down to 5 to 7 hours.

     

    Not really good. This definitely needs to be fixed asap.

  • by republicofheaven,

    republicofheaven republicofheaven Oct 6, 2016 5:15 AM in response to ralfkrause
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    Oct 6, 2016 5:15 AM in response to ralfkrause

    Check your iCloud keychain. If it's not turned on, turn it on. That recovered my battery life from 2.5 hours back to 7 hours.

  • by ralfkrause,

    ralfkrause ralfkrause Oct 6, 2016 9:42 AM in response to republicofheaven
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    Oct 6, 2016 9:42 AM in response to republicofheaven

    keychain is turned on.

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