Mojave: HUGE battery drain during sleep

I did not upgrade to Mojave on my main computer because of this. No telling what apple will do. I use one with Mojave for other things as it is more secure.

Do any of You have on your Macbooks Logitech Options software? Do you use Logitech MX2 Master or similar thing?

I am trying to find a reason of this HUGE battery drain when sleep.

They are not going to reply. They know we are dependent on them. May be they will quietly fix it with next update rather than blaming Chrome and other programs.

Thanks for the tip but that option is already enabled.

According to Apple, this option has no effect if your Mac has an SSD.

Enable TCPkeepAlive and check what will happen :)

Apple Discussions is crap too. I am still getting email alerts for these posts even though I have unfollowed this discussion several times.

Does anybody know how to stop them?

Thanks in advance.

I landed on this thread because I was trouble shooting a 10% per hour battery drain during sleep on a Macbook Air running Sierra. I did all the usual things with smc reset and safeboot but had to dig deeper.

My first comment is that if the hibernate 25 setting stops the drain it might suggest that there is a fault in the RAM: the difference between hibernate 25 and the default hibernate 3 is that the RAM is kept powered in 3. It might therefore be worth running the Apple hardware test.

My second suggestion is to close the lid to send the computer to sleep and wait a couple of hours. Then open terminal and type

pmset -g log

It will tell you if there is a significant interruption to the sleep mode such as a bluetooth device waking the computer or network activity. BTW, you should check the rate of drain after turning off bluetooth, wifi and unplugging all peripherals.

As I said above, I was troubleshooting a 10% per hour during sleep drain in High Sierra. Finally traced the problem to one of those flush fitting flash cards. It was not my computer so I did not notice it at first. You would have thought the card reader would be put to sleep during sleep.

The guys on this forum are really really knowledgeable and if they can't fix it it means it is a deep problem, which Apple is likely working on.

I can't contribute, except in a philosophical sense. As you grow old you degrade so slowly that mostly you don't realize it. The firs time I visited my mother after she got her cataracts removed she said 'I did not know you had a blue car'. She had not noticed the loss of her colour vision because it took 30 years to happen.

I upgrade OS so infrequently that I can tell you exactly how things change.

When I upgraded from 9.6.2 directly to Snow Leopard I had no regrets and missed all the drama in between.

When I went from SL to Sierra I had no regrets except that Google and other web pages loaded very slowly.

I was doing great in Sierra and did not need to go up to High Sierra but I'm regretting it. The boot speed is like OS9.6.2 and Microsoft Word crashes every time the computer sleeps. I reverted to HFS and when I get a half day to spare I will revert to Sierra.

Out of curiosity I upgraded an iMac at work to Mojave and target display mode broke and I have explored no further.

IMHO, Snow Leopard was the acme of the Mac OS and it has been down hill from there. They added a bunch of bells and whistles to entertain the children but it has come at a cost. You can't blame Apple for trying to move forward and it is possible they might produce another superb OS in the future. The trouble is that they will eventually break it. So if you're on a good one, stay with it.

Test results:

More than 12 hours of lid closed.

Started with 100%

Finished with 90% of battery

Everything was on but the Handoff and Notifications with lid closed.

Tonight I'll turn on Handoff to see what happens.

Anyway, 10% is too much overnight.

After night from 77%->75%...so it is normal.

Handoff disabled. Powernap disabled. Bluetooth ON. WiFi ON.

I think it is random :)

I will check after another 8 hours.

I though that it was because of Logitech drivers but when i disabled it from autostart i managed to got this 20% battery drain when sleep. So it seems that it is not the case.

Please add a bug submission to apple, the more us, Apple maybe will at least try to fix it somehow.

It harmful bug...beacuse our batteries will be depleted after few months. Apple claims to have 30 days in sleep....so with the software bugs they will exhaust our batteries

A 16-hour test.

Using hibernate mode 25 I was able to keep the battery at 100%.

Handoff on - Power Nap off - Notifications off with lid closed - Allow Bluetooth devices to interrupt sleep disabled.

Try this and tell if it works with you guys.

Yesterday evening I closed all application windows, then shutdown my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2015 with Mojave. Started it up, closed the lid, disconnected the power. Came back this morning and found out the battery percentage dropped by 5%.

Using pmset -g log I found the following: Total Sleep/Wakes since boot at 2019-06-13 21:58:33 +0200 :9

So it woke up 9 times while I expect the MacBook to just stay asleep when not on battery power.

Digging through the log from previous times my battery drained fully, I noticed this in the log:

2019-06-13 11:08:15 +0200 WakeTime WakeTime: 142956.065 sec

Usually WakeTime is just a couple of seconds but it seems that it woke and stayed awake until the battery was completely drained. This is not good.

Last night the drain was just 5%, but I think that's because I closed all other programs.

In the logs there's also a lot of entries for Carbon Copy Cloner and Time Machine backup. So I have the feeling they somehow wake up the MacBook even though I've disabled "Back up while on battery power" and also in CCC I've enabled to "Start scheduled tasks only when computer is running on AC power", which is the default.

I have the same problem. What made me look for a solution was a warming up on the Mac while sleeping.

macOS Mojave 10.14.5, MacBook Pro (Retina 13-inch, Mid 2014).

Stop working on my mac yesterday at 13:30 PM, battery charged 100%, returned today near 08:30 AM, battery 46%.

This is what i get when running “pmset -g log”: 

2019-06-27 13:35:49 -0300 Sleep  Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep': Using Batt (Charge:100%) 65538 secs
2019-06-27 13:35:50 -0300 PM Client Acks Delays to Sleep notifications: [com.apple.apsd is slow(1511 ms)]
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 Kernel Client Acks Delays to Sleep notifications: [AppleThunderboltNHIType2 driver is slow(msg: WillChangeState to 2)(360 ms)] [RP03 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(1270 ms)]
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 Assertions  PID 209(mDNSResponder) Created MaintenanceWake "mDNSResponder:maintenance" 00:00:00  id:0x0xd00009a3a [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 Assertions  PID 209(mDNSResponder) Released MaintenanceWake "mDNSResponder:maintenance" 00:00:00  id:0x0xd00009a3a [System: PrevIdle DeclUser kDisp]
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 DarkWake    DarkWake from Deep Idle [CDN] due to EC.SleepTimer/SleepTimer: Using BATT (Charge:46%) 0 secs
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 WakeDetails DriverReason:WiFi.ScanOffload - DriverDetails:
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 HibernateStats  hibmode=3 standbydelay=10800 rd=373 ms
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 WakeTime WakeTime: 0.736 sec
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 Kernel Client Acks Delays to Wake notifications: [com_apple_driver_AppleUSBCardReaderDriverNub driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(302 ms)]
2019-06-28 07:48:07 -0300 Sleep  Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep': Using Batt (Charge:46%) 2110 secs
2019-06-28 07:48:23 -0300 PM Client Acks Delays to Sleep notifications: [com.apple.apsd is slow(301 ms)] [AirPort configd plug-in is slow(15761 ms)]
2019-06-28 08:23:17 -0300 Kernel Client Acks Delays to Sleep notifications: [powerd is slow(15763 ms)] [AppleThunderboltNHIType2 driver is slow(msg: WillChangeState to 2)(364 ms)] [RP03 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(1277 ms)] [AppleIntelFramebuffer driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(435 ms)]

I will keep the wi-fi turned off while this problem is not resolved.