Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Just got a new MacBook Pro 16" and today is the first full day of use. I am getting less than 4 hours of battery life, not even close to the advertised 11 hours.
Will do more testing at work tomorrow and hopefully things improve.
Config is 2.4GHZ 8-core, i9, 32GB RAM, Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB
MacBook Pro 16", macOS 10.15
16'' - i9 2.3 - 16gb ram - Radeon 5500 - 1TB ssd
Catalina 10.15.2
There's an entire thread on Macrumors where a lot of people is experiencing the same problem.
forum/macs/notebooks/macbookpro and search the topic Battery Life on MacBook Pro 16.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/battery-life-on-macbook-pro-16.2212813/
I am experiencing a terrible battery life too. Using my Mac with regular tasks (like web browsing, mail etc) it is around 1% of battery usage every 2 minutes.. do de math to understand my battery life. I can also tell you that in 8 hrs of standby (no tasks open) the battery have drained 7% of its charge.
So I went to the Apple store here in Milan (Italy) and the guy told me that I was basically his first case on a Mac Book Pro 16, because it's a new product. He also told me that he had no papers from Apple regarding this problem. He started the battery test using his iPad and the result was ok. Then he searched with me on the internet for other people having the same trouble and he came to the post I've linked before (the one on Macrumors), so I decided to share with all of you my experience.
Oh, a couple of things:
- He told me to test if it was related to a certain app with a higher battery consumption, so we erased the Mac and restored to factory default. I've tested it for 6/8 hours, the problem was still here even with the Mac brand new "out of the box".
- He also told me to try to reset the battery, discharging until 0% (let the Mac shut down by itself) and then recharge to 100%. Same story here, the problem is still there.
I also don't know if Battery Health 3 is very reliable, because the app is telling me that I have 18hrs remaining after 5min of typing (while in the screenshot, 5 mins ago, was 20hrs). Oh, display brightness 35%
This is not my first Macbook, I had a white unibody in 2013 and an Air in 2016... but I never, ever, experienced such a terrible battery.. It's like a windows laptop, probably worst compared to a Dell XPS.
Another example from this morning
Only browsing the web, no apps open in background, brightness 70%, wifi
What update?
10.15.7
MacBook Pro 16 inch battery life
