MacOs catalina drains battery in sleep (MBP)

My 2016 MBP doesn't seem to go to sleep and drains my battery and gets warm when in my laptop bag. In Mojave I would close the laptop, stick it in my bag, and it would go to sleep and hardly drain any battery. Now with Catalina, it seems to constantly stay on and gets very warm in my bag. Battery drains right down pretty quickly when it hardly did that in Mojave. That's what I get for upgrading so soon.

Start terminal and enter:

sudo pmset -a standby 1

sudo pmset -b tcpkeepalive 0

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25

you can also issue these commands to use suspend to disk after 1 minute of inactivity (adjust the value if you like)

sudo pmset -a standbydelaylow 60

sudo pmset -a standbydelayhigh 60

I would:-

• Dump chrome. Safari is better in my opinion but if Chrome is using high power it has a problem (apart from the obvious that is the spawn if the satanic Google) Run Etrecheck and see how muck junk Google has installed in your Mac.
• Until Photoanalysisd has finished its job (Maybe a week) avoid sleeping for long periods without power.

24 hours is a long time for unpowered sleep even in Mojave. If your MBP is 2019 does it have SSD? If so consider using shut down in favour of sleep if it's for 24 hours.

like I just said

• Until Photoanalysisd has finished its job (Maybe a week) avoid sleeping for long periods without power.

overnight is a long time for unpowered sleep even in Mojave. If your MBA is 2017 does it have SSD? If so consider using shut down in favour of sleep if it's for overnight.

If the Mac is powered on, and that includes sleep, it is draining the battery. If you are not going to be using your Mac for several hours, it is best to just shut it down and hook it up to a charger. That certainly conserves battery.

if you have (eg) Photos with a reasonably large number of them, it runs a task to analyse faces. memories and other stuff. Catalina has given us a huge upgrade (in terms of needing to reanalyse Photos) and this may be the task that is draining your power, despite the fact that this task states you need to be connected to power for it to run. I'm using it as an example of a possibility, with the suggestion that all may calm down after a "while"

I have the same problem. My MacBook is from 2017, and after the Catalina update, my battery drains fast in sleep mode. I used it yesterday till around 5 PM, and it was at a 100 %. I opened it today at 10.30 AM, and it was at 36%. Befor it only lost around 5-10 % in that timespand.

One of the reasons I keep buying apple products, is because of the great battery life, and I really need that in my job. I really hope they fix it soon!

I have the same problem. Installed Catalina over a new Mojave installation

the fans go wild wenn the Macbook Pro is plugged to Energy and i am not working on it.

In Battery mode all is normal. Then i installed Catalina completely new.

I booted in recovery deleted the internal SSD and installed Catalina.

All configurations are made new. Problem was gone! But after i put back my Music, Photos and videos,

and installed my Programms, the issue comes back. I don't have many Programms that could cause

such an issue. Adobe CC, Office 2019. The Activity App shows Photo library working in the Background

but after a certain time it has finished and nothing else consuming much CPU but the issue persists.

I tried everything like SMC reset, PRAM reset, etc. deleted start objects, but nothing helps

i have no 32 bit Applications, all are 64 bit.

Now i have changed my energy saver settings to 3 Minutes. That works because the background aktivity

begins after 4 minute's and the Macbook gos to sleep before they beginn.

The curious thing to me is that in secure mode or in a new user account or battery mode, this problem is gone.

Mine is a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018), and I'm also affected by this issue. So it is not only older models that got their battery life borked. I hope Apple gets on the case and releases a fix pronto... :(

I don't know exactly what is causing this problem, but in my case it's something trying to sync through internet (icloud of smth) and easiest way to deal with it is just turn off wifi when you put it to sleep. At least it work for me.

I have the overall impression that OS X has been optimised increasingly for SSD not HDD. I wonder whether those experiencing swift power drain have HDD not SSD?

I have nothing to back up my overall impression except empirical experience with my prior MBP and my current one

I have a Macbook Pro 13" (mid 2012) non Retina with an 1 TB SSD and 8 GB RAM

Until i installed Catalina, never had a Problem. But sins Catalina...

Same Problem draining Battery in sleep.

The other Problem is that when i work on it and it is plugged in to energy all works fine.

But when it is inaktive for a wile then the fans beginn to be loud and it is hot.

As soon as i move the mouse or do something else it returns to normal.

That happens only when it is plugged in to energy, and not in Battery Mode.

It is a completely clean Install Catalina.

Three days ago I just went Settings- Energy, and I uncheck the option to make Power Nap Active. I know, this option is in the section " with power", it is not in the section "battery", so it should not impact our battery issues.

However, since this change , my Mac late 2013 is back to the stand-by not draining battery significantly !!

I know 3 days are not enough to be sure I fixed my issue, , but if someone can try the same and share his experience, .... who knows ??

Thanks

giovanni

Glad that you found a solution for you :-)

But on the Macbook Pro mid 2012 non retina there are no Power Nap settings

in the Energy Settings.

this Settings came out with the newer Macbook pro Models.