Battery draining with lid closed

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Battery draining with lid closed

Running a Mid 2014, Retina 13-inch MacBook pro. Not sure when it started happening but I used to be able to close my laptop lid and leave the laptops for days and weeks with minimal battery drain. Nowadays losing 20%+ each night. I've checked all my settings and I'm sure there is no powernap happening in the background.

There are a couple of old posts on this but no definitive solutions.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8562207

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5977997

Can my fine online friends help me find a resolution? This has definitely been happening on Mojave (I'm at latest build), and it may have happened on 10.13.x (high sierra?) but not sure.

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 28, 2019 4:02 AM

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leroydouglas

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Apr 30, 2019 4:20 PM in response to r_dizzle

r_dizzle wrote:

Running a Mid 2014, Retina 13-inch MacBook pro.

on Mojave (I'm at latest build),

Lost another 9% between 7:30am and 7pm... any ideas?

Use the Energy Saver settings on your Mac - Apple Support

Try resetting the SMC https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

About Mac notebook batteries - Apple Support

Determine battery cycle count for Mac notebooks - Apple Support

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r_dizzle Author

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May 1, 2019 4:35 PM in response to leroydouglas

Thanks

SMC reset appears to have improved today. Charged to 100% overnight.. only 99% (1% loss) from 7am to 6:30pm. Energy saver settings below.

Battery cycles is 675 or so... getting up there but not brutal. Says healthy

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mulberry58

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Apr 28, 2019 4:38 AM in response to r_dizzle

Have you already updated to 10.14.4?

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r_dizzle Author

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Apr 28, 2019 5:33 AM in response to mulberry58

Just did so will report back later. Either way this has been an issue for months.

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r_dizzle Author

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Apr 29, 2019 5:28 PM in response to mulberry58

I updated to 10.14.4 yesterday. I lost ~15% overnight last night. Lost 8% from this morning (~730am) to checking around 6pm. I'm around 700 charge cycles so getting up there.

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r_dizzle Author

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Apr 30, 2019 4:12 PM in response to mulberry58

Lost another 9% between 7:30am and 7pm... any ideas?

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