macOS 10.15 catalina problem, false service battery alert

Hi. I have just noticed this warning today as well. Before Catalina it was normal. Now it says I need to service battery. My battery's Cycle Count is 576. It is still way before 1000. My laptop is MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).

I still don't know if the warning is correct or not.

Thanks. Unfortunately nearest Apple Store is away 3h by car and I have a back injury and cannot go. I will try to uncharge the battery and charge it again to check if the warning is gone or not. If not I will have an appointment after I’m feeling better.

Yes, it could be a coincidence. But after Catalina I started to have other issues too. Dock disappears after each reset. And I cannot connect to my 2.4 GHz WIFI. Only the 5 GHz works fine.

Had the service battery come up on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) 10.15. Upgraded from 10.14 to the public beta of 10.15 then to the official release. Only noticed the service battery a week ago. Contacted Apple and they said I should see a genius at Apple store and booked an appointment. Was in the process of backing up everything before hand and decided to do a clean install of 10.15. Now the service battery has gone and says status is normal.

  Health Information:

  Cycle Count: 408

  Condition: Normal

Have drained the battery to 0% and now charging it back up to 100% to see if anything changes.

I've still got AppleCare to June, 2020. So I'm not worried at the moment if the service battery reappears.

But I would suggest anyone getting the "service battery" and with little time on their warranty to get it looked at just in case.

If you are out of warranty then it might be worth doing a clean install of Mac OS or search the forum more and see if it is more common and perhaps a Mac OS patch will come out to fix the issue of false positives for "service battery"?

Follow up of my story. After using battery until 0% and charging until 100% the warning did disappear. But... later I have noticed that lid of mu macbook is not closing completely. I took my laptop to authorized service. Battery was swollen. Sadly, my MacBook Pro didn't qualify to free repair program. It was supposed to be one of those with good batteries ;) After paying around 265 USD and waiting over 1 week my laptop is back and new battery works good.

Don't neglect warnings in your computers.

It could just be a coincidence, but I would take a "service battery" notice seriously and contact Apple support to get an appointment at the nearest Genius Bar.

My battery is OK again. I just used my laptop until battery was 0%, left for 5 hours and charged it to 100%. And now the warning is gone. Maybe it is related to Catalina after all.