I've been having battery life issues on my 13" MBP (non-touchbar) ever since updating to the latest Catalina. The battery drains ridiculously fast even on sleep. Just now, it's drained from 100% to 0% in 4 hours on sleep. I never had this problem on Mojave. An SMC reset also didn't seem to do anything.
Could anyone help me fix this?
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
This is good to know as I was considering upgrading.
i had the exact same issues as you’ve described with Mojave. It was 2 months of constant torturous reporting and repetition between myself and apple support. In the end this reduced my battery capacity because Apple support didn’t know how to fix it even though they told me they were aware of it and treated me as though I didn’t know my own laptop. They told me I couldn’t downgrade.
So, I went to the Apple store Genius Bar and got it downgraded to high Sierra again and it was instantly back to normal. They never addressed this issue with Mojave even though Hundreds of thousands of people had the same issue. It seems they’ve just ignored it with this update and carried on.
I’ve a very well looked after 2015 MacBook Pro Retina, and Mojave + incompetence of some Apple crew nearly destroyed it. It also affected brand new 2018 MacBooks at the time last year, so it’s their software but won’t admit it unfortunately.
you’ll find your MacBook doesn’t actually go to sleep, as my logs indicated it was waking up and connecting to WiFi every 10mins and sending data. It also randomly activated FileVault which I never had activated in first place. If it’s the same issue as I had, you’ll need to shut down your MacBook if you’re thinking of putting it to sleep. The fan stops when the lid is down so hence it gets pretty toasty!!
It suggests that it's not actually going to sleep, and that there is some process going on that is preventing your Mac from actually going into sleep mode.
Read this:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/8356/what-processes-run-while-my-mac-is-asleep
"Nothing will run while the computer is asleep. Unlike humans, where sleep is different than death, when a computer sleeps it is essentially equal to being powered off.
There are a few subtle differences, the primary being that it wakes up faster than from a cold boot. This is because there is enough power supplied to the RAM (memory) to keep it active, but this does not mean there is power supplied to the CPU (heart), or that any processes are active.
Any processes that are active are below the operating system, in the BIOS of the computer. This is where the "Wake On Lan" feature resides, for example."
Hi sorakrit22, I have the some problem on my MAC pro 15". Also at 68% energy of my battery I must to connect the computer to energy to start from the first moment I've installed Catalina!!!! It's terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi sorakrit22, just to let you know I'm just in the same situation.
Even when the computer is sleeping the battery drains.
I've also reset PRAM and SMC but nothing seems to help.
Catalina battery drain
