MacOs catalina drains battery in sleep (MBP)

But have you any photos?

Catalina has to re-analyse them. For example you can search for "bike" and it will find all photos featuring a bike. It groups all photos with your face in. Think how much AI is required for that and as already said on page 1 it can process that in its sleep.

I have this problem too. Before the upgrade to macOS Catalina my MacBook Pro retina late 2013 was fine.

Some days after the upgrade I noticed a huge energy drain during sleep mode. My battery was at the end of the life cycle and I changed it at a Medstore with a new original one (I live 2 hours 30 minutes far from the nearest Genius Bar).

After the change nothing changed. The energy drain is still persistent and variable. Some nights 5-7%, others 20-30%. A day I had 64% in 12 hours.

After the problem I started looking for a solution.

I disabled Power Nap and the bluetooth wake up.

I made a NVRAM reset and a SMC reset.

Do not disturb was active.

After that nothing changed, and in terminal with pmset -g I tried to have more elements about the issue. I discovered that a lot of stuff woke up my MacBook Pro.

Then I made a clean installation of MacOS. After the installation I didn't install any program or app. I disabled Power Nap and bluetooth wake up and activated do not disturb.

Despite this my MacBook loose 7% battery in 12 hours. In terminal pmset -g gave me this results

(sleep prevented by apfsd, sharingd)

with pmset -g assertions I discovered that handoff wake up the MacBook and other stuff like Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler.

According to this, the problem IS the OS. The fact that some people is having this problem since 2016 (with another OS version) really undermine my trust in Apple, and this make me really sad.

Sure. Open "BetterTouchTool", goto "Named and other triggers", add new trigger "Before Mac goes to sleep", add new actions "Execute Terminmal (Sychronous)" and enter command

networksetup -setairportpower en0 off

I didn't happened in previous versions of the OS, so it's not a hardware related problem, but a software issue related to it. What I do to minimize the battery drain is to disable wifi and bluetooth before sleep. The lost percentage is around 5% in one night, so it's acceptable for me. I think that this happens because the computer is performing some tasks involving data submission to Apple.

Due you try ti stop power nap not judo in the battery section , but in the energy powered section as well ? I did work so well for my MacBook Pro end 2013 !

Same was for me, but It looks like the situation did improve for me when I counterintuitively disabled power nap in the power section too . Have a trial, may be it was a coincidence !

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.

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.

Same here. Late 2013 MacBook Pro. No issues until I upgraded to Catalina. I now have no choice but to shut completely down every night.

New 2019 MBP, drained battery from 100% down to 5% over the course of about 24 hours with the lid closed, not connected to power.

Activity Monitor indicated that Chrome (with about 25 tabs) and Photos used the most energy during that period.

Even if Photos needs to re-analyze all the photos, I wouldn't think it's a good idea to be doing that on battery power when the lid is closed and the computer is supposed to be asleep.

It would be great to have the computer working away on Spotlight and Photos, etc. during the night if it's connected to power, but past experience has led me to believe that it's generally not doing much (and not using much battery power) when the lid is closed and it's not connected to power.

If you familiar with Terminal you can use the "man pmset" command to list the flags.

If you are not familiar with terminal then take great care with sudo commands you find on the web!

Also hibernate 25 mode takes as long to wake up from as shutdown in my experience of HDDs

I have the identical hardware and SSD.

It takes 25 seconds to boot up, so why leave it on unpowered sleep (the subject of the thread) for any time at all?

It has all been said before about checking for CPU hogs in the Activity monitor and dealing with them. Also not leaving it in sleep overnight. Charge it or turn it off.

Neither Catalina nor Mojave are particularly good as all day laptops but once photos are reprocessed I haven't notice much difference..

hibeenate mode 25 when I tried it helped somewhat but took longer to wake on HDD than shut down.

If it slept on the timer it was very inconvenient.

Get SSD and shut it down if you're going to be more than ten minutes. Only takes 20 secs to boot up

Indeed it wakes up a bit slow, I mean for me takes around 10-15 seconds with SSD 1 TB, but for me was the perfect solution for not to loose any battery during sleep. After this setting, I close the lid with 100% and wakes up with 100% every time.

With SSD and the mac in deep sleep (25) it still waking up much faster than from complete shut down and I have all the opened apps ready to work right away. When shutting down, it takes longer until all the apps I use to boot and be ready to work.

I would like also to post an UPDATE on my battery life during usage of my mac, it turned out that after finished the initial indexing, now with 66% juice left, it shows a remaining of 04:44 hours of time left for use. And I have a ton of apps opened in background. If this remains the same, big chances are that with Catalina installed, my battery life extends over the High Sierra usage.

I will monitor this in the following days and post an update later on.

My mac configuration is: 13" MBP-retina mid-2014 (purchased in early 2015), SSD-1TB, 16GB-DDR3 RAM, 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7

Because I have a big SSD with used space of about 400 GB, by using High Sierra I could manage to create a second APFS partition and install Catalina with complete restoration of all my data and settings from my High Sierra installation, therefore I have the exact same data in Catalina as in High Sierra. Basically I have a dual boot configuration right now. My initial thought was that if Catalina is not working properly (as it was the case with Mojave), I could be back in my old High Sierra installation with no effort whatsoever. But as it turned out Catalina might work well. I also had to find 64bit versions of some apps like Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and others, but there are options out-there and now everything works just great.

Great that Apple decided to get rid of the status indicator LED on their machines. So now we are stuck with a macOS update that causes the computer to wake, but you cannot even see when it is happening because there is no LED anymore.

I just purchased a new MacBook Pro 16" and with the preinstalled Catalina I also experience this issue.

And not only there - all my Macs are affected. iMac 27" at home, MacMini at home, MacBook 13", all of them just wake up randomly and often even stay on afterwards. The worst thing is: once the battery of the MacBooks are drained, even the safe sleep does not work correctly anymore. The MacBooks used to dump their memory onto the SSD / HDD to not loose any data once the battery was too low on energy. Now, with Catalina, whenever I turn on my drained MacBooks they have to boot from scratch again.

Sleep mode is completely useless now, I have to turn of all my machines everytime. Especially for the MacBooks this is an annoying issue, and it still persists with Catalina 10.15.3.