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OS Catalina, short battery life on MacBook Pro 15" - 2016

Good evening, I own a MacBook Pro 15" late 2016 and a couple of weeks ago I updated to OS Catalina with also first official update some days after launch.

I noticed that since Catalina runs on my Mac the battery life has decreased a lot, about 80% less than before !

With Mojave the average battery duration was about 10 hours, now not more than 2,5 ! Really unbelievable.

Of course I made a full check up and test's results are ok, also battery is ok because the completed charge cycles are only 210 on 1000 as on Apple official technical support site.

So I can't think about any other explanation if not that this problem has been caused by OS Catalina.

Did anyone else notice the some behaviour after updated to OS Catalina ?

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 24, 2019 9:43 AM

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xrisj

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Posted on Feb 13, 2020 4:29 PM

This was part of my solution as well. While looking at the power information in System Information, I found PMSET schedules from an old 3rd party backup tool Intego. Using launchctl utility from Terminal, I cleaned up the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons for that tool. I then ran the PMSET utility to clear the old scheduled jobs - this was crushing my mac battery, but didn't show up as a problem until the Catalina upgrade. I cannot speak to the correlation, but now I've only used 10% of my battery after an hour! I stumbled upon this after seeing a video about the PMSet utility and battery management.

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Nov 9, 2019 6:40 AM in response to AntoninoSA

I have the same problem since installing Catalina 10.15.1 on my MacBook Pro 13" 2017 model. Battery life has gone from 10-12 hours to about 2 hours!!

Nov 11, 2019 7:36 PM in response to AntoninoSA

Mine has gotten worse with Catalina 10.15.1 actually.

Nov 11, 2019 7:40 PM in response to Longhornmary

Same exact experience I have - 10 hours to 2, maybe 3. I have the Macbook Pro 2018. My cycle count is 85.

Savvy231

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Nov 13, 2019 5:45 AM in response to AntoninoSA

its really not good from apple to reduce battery life after catalina upgrade.

how long these tactics will work.

urge apple to provide a patch as soon as possible.

Nov 13, 2019 1:35 PM in response to AntoninoSA

Same problem with my MacBook Air 2015 :(

Nov 21, 2019 9:19 AM in response to AntoninoSA

I'm having the same problem. Has anyone tried this solution?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sLG2s-mmA0

This guys says he solved it via terminal.

Nov 21, 2019 11:42 AM in response to Phillips_th

Just tried it. Thanks. Will post in morning if works. Looks legit

Nov 21, 2019 1:42 PM in response to shramona02

My battery drain isn't just at night or with "sleep" mode. It's ALL the time. I rue the day I installed Catalina 10.15.1 !!! Come on Apple. Get a FIX out NOW!!!

Nov 22, 2019 7:22 AM in response to Longhornmary

Tried tip from video, i have 20% more battery than yesterday but like Longhornmary, my drain happens worse while using. Apple needs to respond

zkdlin

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Dec 18, 2019 3:40 AM in response to Longhornmary

I'm too scared to update, the exact same happened with mojave, and i don't know if i should upgrade at all and just stick to high sierra

Dec 23, 2019 9:54 AM in response to AntoninoSA

I have a MBP 15" 2018. Battery life was three days!!! Now less than a day... even when (smart) sleeping.

This is shameful behaviour by Apple.

Jan 3, 2020 1:17 PM in response to Phillips_th

Chrome has nothing to do with it. I don’t use Chrome.. Pretty sure I don’t have it on this Air..

Jan 3, 2020 1:20 PM in response to xboxbmliphone

Thanks - darn I was hoping that would be the culprit. I think Apple cranking out 10.15.3 is a better solution :-).

xrisj

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Jan 6, 2020 12:04 PM in response to AntoninoSA

I'm lucky to get 2 hours on my 2018 MBP after Catalina. Prior, averaged ~9 hours.

annjamie

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Jan 20, 2020 9:45 PM in response to AntoninoSA

I am having the exact same problem. Battery life has decreased an unbelievable amount.

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