I recently bought my MacBook Air M1. When not charging keeps draining my battery faster than usual -showing using significant energy. This never used to happen before. I'm currently on Mac OS Big Sur 11.2.3.
Please advise if there is anything I could do about this or even disable spotlight search.
Thanks
MacBook Air 13″, 11.2
Depending on the amount of Data on the drive, it is normal for Spotlight to perform a complete Index of everything on the drive. Thus, more battery usage. Suggest keep the computer plugged in for 1 / 3 days and allow Spotlight to finish its; job. Thereafter - should and return to normal.
That aside - open Activity Monitor >> View >> View All Processes. Check the CPU Tab for any Application / Process using excessive CPU and then same for Memory Tab. This would be a good start to track down a RunAway process.
Lastly - are there any AntiVirus, Disk Cleaners , Optimizers, VPN installed ? Totally unneeded software that causes havoc, not fit for purpose etc. Remove as er Developers Instructions. If Not Applicable - Disregard.
Depending on the amount of Data on the drive, it is normal for Spotlight to perform a complete Index of everything on the drive. Thus, more battery usage. Suggest keep the computer plugged in for 1 / 3 days and allow Spotlight to finish its; job. Thereafter - should and return to normal.
That aside - open Activity Monitor >> View >> View All Processes. Check the CPU Tab for any Application / Process using excessive CPU and then same for Memory Tab. This would be a good start to track down a RunAway process.
Lastly - are there any AntiVirus, Disk Cleaners , Optimizers, VPN installed ? Totally unneeded software that causes havoc, not fit for purpose etc. Remove as er Developers Instructions. If Not Applicable - Disregard.
Thank you for your reply. It's not showing me that spotlight is using significant energy anymore. Like you mentioned its probably done its job. When it was happening I tried to kill the process using activity monitor but that was no good as it used to show up again. I do have a disk cleaner installed, maybe i'll just uninstall that.
What Process / application were your trying to kill?
As embarrassing as it sounds - Spotlight
Spotlight - Using significant energy.
