MacOs catalina drains battery in sleep (MBP)

I replied to your post the 8th of November, or 14th, and was experiencing the same issues as you described. I have no idea how or why, but I closed my laptop on sunday with a lot of different programs and taps open, and it had only drained 4% over night. From yesterday evening, till this morning - none.

I hope everyone else is experiencing the some improvement in their battery life while in sleep mode.

Yes-- I'm using SSD on a mid-2012 13" MacBook Pro. I can no longer simply close the lid and plan on using my computer a few days later. Power is draining way too fast. Never had this problem until Catalina.

Hey, i have the non-retina MacBook Pro 13“ Mid 2012 to but with Transcend SSD.

i hoped that Catalina 10.15.2 will fix that but this issue is still there.

In mi case it occurs only when the Macbook Pro is plugged in to energy.

Then it gets hot and will not sleep for 1 Hour. In Battery Mode all is ok.

Also it drains Battery very quick.

No i have no iCloud photos and it is a fresh installation of Catalina,

without any 32 bit Applications.

When i put the Energy setting to 3 minutes. That work for me.

It occurs only when the Mac is inactive and plugged to energy. Then after 5 minutes

the Macbook gets warm and the fans are spinning for about 1 hour.

If i disconnect the energy all works fine an the Macbook sleeps as it should.

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

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 !!

Since the latest Catalina updates ive noticed the battery on my MacBook Air (early 2015) has dropped to 25% capacity and the other day it dropped to 12% capacity overnight ( it’s only done 285 cycles so no where near the 1000 it should cope with) . I have tried letting it drain leaving It 5 hrs and then charging. Resetting the Pram. But my battery seems terrible. Pre Catalina it was fine.

why do you leave a mac to sleep with no power overnight? You will surely have read the last six pages.

1 keep it 100% on power for the next week at least

2 have an SSD fitted and 16GB RAM, and enjoy a transformed mac you can turn off instead of sleep.

All very logical , but with my MacBook Pro from 2013 to 2018 I had negligeable consumption ( go to the office 5 days a as week , same patterns ) and suddenly moving to Catalina consumption when closed changed to the worse , and by a lot .

It is a mbp 2013 13inches 8Mb Ram

with my Mbp 16 inches 16Mb is a bit better , but much more I was used in the past

Catalina may well have changed some default or immutable power characteristics. I haven't been able to compare before and after, as my old 2012 MBPr 15 is now obsoleted by Apple and from what I'm told, not able to run Catalina.

I just set my hibernate mode to 25 on my 2019; I hope to test the drain during sleep mode once again, this evening.

The reality here is that Apple have a major QA issue and are releasing faulty goods. I have already spent time on the phone with support to establish that my screen doesn't reach the advertised brightness of 500 Nits - which I only realised as I have one of the 27" 5K LG Monitors that does, and noticed the difference. One of the main reasons I bought a MacBook is for the quality of the screen, my profession rests on it.

On top of the battery issues. I have set my mac to go into "deep sleep", but still find on some days when I get to my desk that the battery has dropped random percentages, up to 50%. I have also noticed that when running games that the machine cannot charge the battery as fast as it discharges - and this was never an issue with my 2013 MacBook that ran like a TRAIN for SIX YEARS.

Tired of having the Apple brigade throw temporary solutions / workarounds at me and not acknowledging the fact that Apple have issues that need to be sorted out. That they are now more interested in cosmetics than they are in creating the highest performance, highest quality machinery. Make it thinner. Get rid of ports. Put a touchbar on it - that'll sell. None of which I care for. I just want a machine that WORKS, and WORKS.

It has got to the point where I dare to accept an update for the OS as I am afraid of what will happen if I do, which above all, is deeply disappointing. Anyone defending them is doing themselves a disservice as WE ALL PAY A PREMIUM for their goods.

Same here, 12% in 6 hours (sleep mode) after update to Catalina. Macbook Retina 2015