M1 SMC reset

I recently received a MacBook Pro which I am doing a little troubleshooting about the length of battery life with and wanted to reset the SMC. Is the procedure the same as for MacBook Pro's with the T2 chip? (left) ctrl + opt + (right) shift - 7 seconds, then add pwr button 7 seconds and release. Also, I was told that there is no NVRAM on these Macs. Is that true?

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 30, 2020 2:41 PM

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Johnnhgrace

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Posted on Jan 15, 2021 12:47 AM

Hello jeffmr4

Thank you for contacting Apple Community

You can’t reset the SMC, because the M1 Mac doesn’t have a System

Management Controller. You can’t manually reset the NVRAM / PRAM because

your Mac does this automatically, if needed, during every startup.

Best regards,

John

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