MacBook Pro 16 inch battery life

No - Just browsing Safari and I hit 5% from 100% in less than 90 Minutes.

It is a joke.

Perhaps device is kaputt... Taking it in tomorrow...

Sound is totally off too. Sounds like a 5$ headphone trying to make bass more predominant !

Glad to have discovered this thread; had started my own but only got 2 users to reply with information that did nothing.

I thought I had solved the issue by running down the battery in safe mode and recharging it there and restarting in safe mode without anything running basically gave me the advertised 11 hours.

In regular mode unfortunately it has gone back to around 4 on the 5th cycle now. Has anyone who returned the mac and got the battery replaced gotten better results because of this?

It's an odd one; I tried to test that in safe mode and at first it only gave me 5 hours of battery life at first as well (then the 11 hours after a recharge), but it might be the issue indeed. But this seems like a huge issue, especially if it also involves so many native apps, then it's ridiculous. People buy an expensive high performances machine to be something more than a hugely expensive paper weight when on battery.

It seems odd that not more users are complaining about it as I would assume most users buying this don't just want to surf safari with it.

"And as for the AMD discrete GPU thing, I have no idea that what means."

If you don't understand what that even is or what that means then you defending Chrome makes no sense. And you can't compare an older MBP to this one because the 16" comes with a much higher performance GPU. Not trying to be rude but you should educate yourself about your computer more such as the dedicated GPU. It's odd that someone would defend a web browser (Chrome) and blame the whole computer when they don't have any education as to how the browser works and the effect is has on the computer. My earlier posts (including the one from Apple I posted) fully explained the GPU and what apps have a strong effect on battery life with the GPU. And please for the love of Pete don't defend Google's browser when it's a 3rd party application.

Your computer is not defective. Read through the thread.

Thank you but this is a forum made up of Mac users only, just like any other forum. Apple is not here reading or responding to posts. When you post here frustrated your frustrations go towards the readers since we are the ones offering help. If you want Apple to hear your rants then you have to contact them directly at the following link. Contact - Official Apple Supportsupport.apple.com › contact

FrancescoCinque wrote:

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- 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.

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That was BAD ADVICE. That guy needs to be sent back for re-training.

No recent Apple batteries benefit in the slightest from deep discharge. In fact, the recommended procedure for the 13-in model of that same Mac involves ALL NIGHT charging.

If your MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) keeps shutting down - Apple Support

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Baloney. The fact that I now have a computer replacement without this problem of fast battery draining suggests there are a lot of people being told a lot of things that simply are not true. No battery should drain in 2-3-4 hours doing simple work!

COparamedic1: maybe they gave you a used MacBook Pro. 😁

With my 2019 MBP, the battery life settled into normal after I had used it for a few weeks. I think after Spotlight is done indexing and whatever else happens in a new machine, maybe even the initial Time Machine backup keeps the machine running at all hours? the MBP 2019 I own seems to give decent battery life.

2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 32Gb, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8Gb, 1Tb SSD.

Apple employees may read the stuff posted on the forums, but the important point is that they do not have "read the forums" in their job descriptions.

In addition, forum Management has told senior contributors (who are all volunteers) there are NO formal mechanisms for escalating issues from the forums to Engineering or anywhere else.

The ONLY method that Apple TRACKS and RESPONDS TO is:

• contacts with Apple support that result in a "ticket"/aka Bug-report, OR

• a product return, OR

• a product repair that replaces parts.

And I have given you my experience, with multiple complaints submitted via their proper method and having had several senior level people involved. As I noted, my situation was FINALLY resolved, but not as it should have been. And I have as much right as do you to post here and post my honest and real experience. If you cannot understand it, given your supposed expertise, fine. But my posts stand to help others understand that there IS a REAL problem with some batteries on the newest computer Apple has produced. To hide that problem, to not give our experience would be terrible. Apple needs to step upend inform buyers if there is some sort of weird or different "conditioning" or management method. But I do not think that is all that is going on here. Others all over the web have similar problems with fast battery draining for no good reason.

I posted. I said my several weeks experience was not up to what I consider the typical Apple standard and what I have experienced using Apple computers since they were first created. I have also fairly reported that in the end, Apple did the right thing. But honestly, many people would have given up. I am 73 and I cannot afford to give up when I spent my hard earned money to buy what I hope will be the last computer I need to buy. It was particularly frustrating because I am out there daily in this virus pandemic and I did NOT get the resolution or follow up or attention my complaint should have brought. In addition, I don't know the backgrounds or training of the people I dealt with, but that is not an excuse that my problem should take weeks of time calling and writing and calling and talking and waiting on the phone for someone to answer.

You can speak about what you know about. You can do whatever you wish and I will do the same. My experience should NOT have been as it was initially and others here must know there are others out there with similar battery drain and heat problems.

I am getting off the board now. So I will not respond further.

It is not against any rule to complain or discuss about problems. I gave my problem based on research and personal experience. It took forever to get my issue resolved. As I mentioned, in the end, after hours and hours and hours and weeks of heartburn, my problem WAS finally resolved. But there is a problem apparently with these MacBook Pro 16 inch computers related to batteries draining quickly and some heat excess problems. It is not a secret. My initial post was to complain and let others know so they don't think they are crazy and so that in the end, hopefully they might see that they may be able to get resolution if they stay on the track. Mr. Expert here may know some things, but he knows little about this problem or customer service that Apple normally has provided for years and years and years I have owned and used Apple computers since their first days.

So I have let the apple reseller test the MacBook and they couldn't find any problems of course!

They did a diagnostics and heat test with software that apple provide and and some other test but its all fine by there specs.

I still don't know how they test it or what the exactly do because they don't provide me that information.

I also have the problem you describe that the power drain happened overnight. Last night it have go down from 32% to 22%.

I still find it's a design failure in combination with the second GPU. When you open Garageband it going down from 9 hours to max 2,5 hours even when you don't do anything in the program then playing a loop audio with speakers on mute and the screen on 40%

You do not have an issue, your battery is completely normal, and Apple does not respond through these forums.

If you want assistance from an Apple employee, use the "Contact Support" link at the top of every forum page.

Are you guys using the MacBook Pro 16-inch with an external monitor?