macOS Big Sur 11.3 Battery Drain

Mine seems to have leveled out. It took almost 5 days but the cataloging thing they talked about must have been the issue.

I wouldn’t recommend a rollback to Catalina, moreover those using a new Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chip couldn’t.

Just avoid to do TM backups to a disk when on battery.

I’m facing the same issue since last night, it was at 100 and when I went for dinner I closed the lid and when I came back I saw it went to 77 in just 15 mins. And then I restarted the Mac book pro and then I noticed MacBook refused to restart, then I inserted the charger cable and found that it has come down to zero in no time.

After updating to 11.3 or 11.3.1, my MBP 13 is facing a serious battery drain problem. I have tried all the possible solutions but none of them worked, health of the battery is also showing normal. What should I do?

Same issue here. I've tried about every potential fix that I've read about and none work. Just sitting here unplugged for less than 20 minutes and the battery has drained 20%. It always runs hot and fans blow. Apple goes from bad to worse -- this MacBook pro has been a huge disappointment.

My MBP 2020 M1 started acting crazy again. Last night I turned off with a battery % of 78 and I’m trying to turn on it dosent and noticed that’s it battery for drained. It’s not even charging now. I’m confused it’s just a 2 month old laptop.

I am facing this issue recently after i upgraded my MBP M1 to Big Sur 11.3.

It used to give me a good 14-15 hours backup but after upgrade it is hardly 5 hours given the use cases same for regular browsing (chrome 7-8 tabs), Visual Studio Code.

I use to just close the lid and throughout the night it hardly drops by 1-2%, now it's 15%+ daily.

Battery checks all fine. No overcharging done (unplugged at 95%) and charge when at 15%.

I have had exactly the same problem on my brand new MacBook Pro (six months old). The battery performed really well prior to the update, but now I'm finding that I pretty much need to be charging for most of the time I'm using it. It's been restarted lots of times, all apps are up to date, and I'm doing nothing with my Mac that I wasn't doing prior to the update. Really disappointing.

Have you had any issues with charging it as well? After the update, mine just starting acting weird and not charging(showing that "battery not charging") and basically running on cable. It only gets charged properly when it's turned off, and it takes 10 -12 hours to charge

This morning I unplugged it and power dropped instantly to 99%. I rebooted, when it came back up, battery was at 94%. Normal drain appears to be going on now, no idea what's going on. Yesterday it behaved normally.

Apple, this problem is out of the user's hands and needs to be resolved.

My MBP eats through its battery with no need to use TM for backups, just some lightweight surfing will kill it pretty quickly after the latest update. This is after enduring months of kernel panics last year if I did not shut my machine down before charging it.

My MBP has become a secondary device used primarily when my MS Surface laptop is charging, which luckily is not all that often. I think my 16" 2019 MBP may be my last Mac, since these OS faults have really gotten in the way of using these machines as anything but toys.

Your answer looks more like an AD for M$ than anything else.

Anyway: you’ve got bigger issues to solve when kernel panics are involved as you are stating.

Here we are talking about some more battery drain after a minor update, nothing that bad to make us ditch a great product in favor of a silly Surface.

PS what’s next? A new ad for the soap to use to wash your Surface fabrics? 😘

Not an ad for MS - I have long been one of their biggest critics. My friends will lol for days when they hear that I have been called a MS fanboi.

I was just pointing out that this is the second time in a little over a year when Mac OS updates have made my MBP difficult to use for serious work. The bigger issue you refer to regarding kernel panics was with Macs crashing when sleeping, which took three OS updates to resolve for most of us. If I forgot to save my work before putting it on to charge and letting it sleep I lost my work. It was first seen in 16" MBPs but was eventually documented in multiple Macs.

Apple needs to get back to having a stable platform again, and not issuing OS updates which cripple their machines. I don't see that as an attack but rather a productive suggestion for them to improve their product.

We'd be delighted to hear about your "serious work", looks like it should eat much of your time preventing you from writing useful comments on this board.

Fed you twice today: a third time won't happen.

Bye.

Big Sur battery drain