MacOs catalina drains battery in sleep (MBP)

Hy guys,

I have a MBP 13 Mid 2014 with Retina Display and had the same battery drain issue during sleep when upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave, back in fall 2017 when Mojave launched. I have spent many days to find a solution for this with no success. Even when working with the MBP the battery was draining much faster than in High Sierra. At some point I find a solution for the battery drain during sleep, by changing the sleeping mode to deep-sleep. This you can obtain by opening Terminal app and copy/paste the following code:

"sudo pmset hibernatemode 25"

You cand verify in which sleep mode is your mac with this code: "pmset -g | grep hibernatemode"

Usually by default the sleep mode has number 3, so if you want to change back the sleeping mode to what it was initially, use the code: "sudo pmset hibernatemode 3"

However at that point I didn't find a solution for the quick battery drain during use (with High Sierra my MBP battery lasted 7 hours of use, compared to Mojave, where that time was shrinked to 3 hours), that is why I downgraded to High Sierra and used it until now. Right after the downgrade to High Serra my battery was lasting again +7 hours during use.

Now I installed Catalina yesterday on a separate partition, just to check if it is usable from battery point of view. Last night I closed the lid with 100% and this morning it was at 78%, which is a lot of draining. I just set the sleep mode to deep sleep (25) and I will keep an eye on this for the next days.

As for now the battery still draining pretty fast during use (loosing 1% every 2 minutes), however it might be because the new installation is making it's indexing work all over the system. I will wait a few days and get back with an update.

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.

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.

UPDATE for battery life after upgrade to Catalina

Hi guys, I am coming back with an update about battery life after 3 days of Catalina. As I mentioned earlier, right after the upgrade (installing Catalina on a separate APFS partition alongside High Sierra) my battery drain was quite high during use, but it turned out that this was only during the process of the OS indexing after the new installation.

Starting the second day, the battery drain during normal use is similar to High Sierra. Yesterday I used my MBP a bit heavier than usual (email, documents, installations, settings, youtube, data transfers, downloads, etc.) and managed to obtain a slightly better than 5 hour of battery life from 100% to 1 % (5:15 hours actually).

Today I used the mac only for surfing the net, email, watching youtube videos and using the MS Office apps (no photoshop, app installations or any resource-hungry activities) and my battery lasts even better times. With normal use it seems that I have juice for 7 hours, which is great for a 5 year laptop that it has been used heavily since day one. (my battery is at 384 cycle out of 1000 and it shows 87% of it's factory capacity)

However, I must say that I take good care of my battery since day one and I pay attention to have discharging cycles from time to time in order to keep a healthy battery. I have a powerful tool for this, an app called FruitJuice which overlooks my usage habits, calculates the discharging times necessary for keeping a healthy battery and reminds me to use my MAC also on battery from time to time. Otherwise I am tempted to use it mostly in clamshell mode, connected to power outlet with my two huge apple displays. Keeping a MBP always connected to AC power is the best way to destroy it's battery in a short time. I made this mistake with my previous MacBook Air.

As the battery drain during sleep issue, setting the sleep type to deep-sleep (25) turned out to be the fix for this. And I had a pleasant surprise to find that with deep sleep mode, Catalina wakes up very fast compared to previous OS versions, it is almost instant after opening the lid. So I close the lid with 100% battery and after 12 hours at the opening I still have 100%.

This you can obtain by opening Terminal app and copy/paste the following code:

"sudo pmset hibernatemode 25"

You cand verify in which sleep mode is your mac with this code: "pmset -g | grep hibernatemode"

Usually by default the sleep mode has number 3, so if you want to change back the sleeping mode to what it was initially, use the code: "sudo pmset hibernatemode 3"

I hope the above describes fix and solutions are helpful at least for a few of you guys, I decided to write down my experience because last time I had these kind of problems I spent many days looking for a workaround and it would have been very helpful if I could find these things fast and would have not lost so many precious days.

Regards!

UPDATE - I had to abandon Catalina because of the all 64bit infrastructure!

As I described earlier, I managed to stabilize the battery drain issue in Catalina with a few tweaks and I was very happy thinking that finally I can upgrade from High Sierra to a newer OS. However when I started to use my Catalina installation to real life work came my second and biggest disappointment because the lack of 32bit app support.

I also support 64bit transition because all the obvious reasons, however it seems that the world is not ready yet for an all exclusive 64bit environment. To tell the truth, I was not expected a fully 64bit system to have such a big impact on my day to day work. As it turned out, most of the apps I use for work has no 64bit support or I need to buy a new license for a newer version in order to be used with Catalina and spend a ton of money, just because Apple decided to make this move. For example MS Office needed a new version, very hard to find, many Adobe apps lack in 64bit support, even my latest launched Brother Printer and Scanner is unusable. They recommend on their website to try to find different third party apps in order to scan or print, because they are not developing support for 64bit.

Therefore I am back once again to the stable High Sierra and will use it another year, or until Apple decides to offer support for such problems they created, or the app developers decide to develop 64bit versions for their apps.

If you want to upgrade to Catalina, I recommend to be extra careful and analyze comprehensively which apps do you use most for work and if that app is 64bit or has a 64bit version, before the upgrade. Big chances are that apps you rely on for work are not yet Catalina compatible. I certainly not recommend upgrading to Catalina if you use your mac for work. I would not imagine simple things like printing and scanning not working on a 2019-2020 launched MacOS and that the latest generation printers have no 64bit support.

Pretty shame...

Hello Everyone!

Iam suffered from the same problem with may macbook pro. With 7 hours of sleep with closed lid my battery drained about 20%. Tried a few things, nothing helped.

Then i checked the wakeupreasons logs in the terminal and i saw that my macbook at midnight had a lot of wakeupreasons with the following : VoiceTrigger and EC.ARPT.

After a couple of search everything pointed to Siri. So i disabled and turned off all Siri functions on my macbook.

Now after 7-8 sleep with close lid my battery is still on 100%.

If someone still have this problem try ti disable Hey Siri function and check it without it.

So how many more years do you intend to use MS Office 2011 for work? It has been out of security support for some years now.

"...For example MS Office needed a new version, very hard to find, ..."

Go to Apple.com and search for Microsoft Office - it really isn't that hard to find. $149.

"So how many more years do you intend to use MS Office 2011 for work? It has been out of security support for some years now."

Who said that I am using MS office 2011? Actually I am using 2016 version and it is frustrating that because Apple I have to purchase a new license and have additional costs... But also my latest generation printers and scanners are not working... do you find for me 64bit support for that? Even if the producer of the printers (Brother) announce officially that they not support Catalina and 64bit?

I just updated to 16.16.18 today. (Thanks for the reminder OT)

The only thing I needed

1. when upgarding to Catalina and

2. when replacing my HDD with. SSD

was to log into the Microsoft account that I registered the original product with.

I have the exact same problem after updating to Catalina and I'm using MacBook Pro 13" 2016 (non-touchbar). I tried resetting SMC and PRAM and they did nothing, so I thought I should re-calibrate the battery. Did that and didn't help either.

I know that it's probably best to shutdown your Mac when you don't use it, but because I have to bring work stuff home all the time, so I can't just close everything and then have to re-open every single tab in the morning.

What's weird is that even when I had 10+ tabs open, the battery only drained like 5% overnight before I updated to Catalina. And now it's like 20% plus without any tabs left open... This is just ridiculous and if I leave my Mac on sleep for 2 or 3 days, it will be dead completely. This didn't happen before, and my Mac was still fine after I left it unplugged for 10 days plus when I was on Mojave.

Like come on Apple, it's 2020 now and the problem is still unresolved.

Hope the new update will come out soon

I had a MacBook Pro late 2013, power consumption in stand-by has been negligeable until I updated to Mojave . Since, no way, 10-15% draining per day minimum. Same with Catalina.

I felt it was because it was an old model with a recent OS.

I now have a MacBook Pro 16 , a bot better, but still battery is used too much during stand by.

For me one f the key advantages I found against Windows was the stand by working so well..... I believe Apple should fix what for me is real a problem.

That was windows hibernate. It wrote the session to disk and all but shut down. Windows sleep still used power from what I remember from work. You can do much the same thing by checking the box before shutting down MacOS. It will make you save open files of course.

There is also hibernate 25 mode if you want to try it.

Both shutdown and hibernate 25 are slow with old spinny disks

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

One think s clear to me : for 6 years my MacBook Pro 13" was sleeping with no issues, and using say 1-3% power per day max.

Since more than one year, no way, when I am back from work after 45 min driving and I open my bag, the Mac inside is warmer than when I closed the lid before putting it in the bag.

I also bought a second MacBook Pro (16") , both have the same issue, , while I have the same work path, use the same softwares etc etc.

CONCLUSION : APPLE PLEASE FIX IT , thanks !!