MacBook Air m1 battery reduced to 98%

Same issue with me i bought macbook air m1 1 month ago, I have 21 changed cycle and battery capacity reduced to 98%.

What's happening...!🤷‍♂️

Just got my m1 air and after 10 cycles battery health is at 96%, what's up Apple?

I am just getting 98% even with 13 battery cycles, only 4 months old. Latest updates are installed.

Dont know what happened.

Mine too. only 13 cycles. though that there is a error eith their battery capacity calibration.

Did you pay anything for the replacement, or is it considered a part of the guarantee?

Mine decreased much faster than yours, it became 99% after two weeks

Cycle count 28, and maximum capacity 98. I bought my Mac in July, and I care it better than my wife. Why ıs that happen? Apple explain, is it normal?!

98% with only 30 cicles

Any updates?

Same problem

Got mine in early April. Only at 19 cycles, but down to 94%. That's pretty crazy. I use it for work and need to have it powered up so it can run my monitor. I'd go nuts if I had to work on a 13 inch screen all the time. I know I should take it off power more often and just work for a day or 2 until it runs down all the way, so maybe I'll suck it up an do that every couple of weeks. But losing 6% in just a few months is crazy, especially when they tout it for it's amazing battery life...

it's hard for them to test whether popular applications like VSCode or Chrome works well with the new cpu architecture which may cause lots of cpu consumption and kill the battery pretty quickly.

It used less than 2G of memory for Chrome when i removed all enabled but unused plugins like Google Docs ... or Video related plugins!

If you buy a $2k machine just to read news & email, it should not be a problem :))

FYI: with similar # of Chrome tabs for my 2015 intel cpu, the memory is not as high so i think they'll need time to optimise apps for the new architecture to work efficiently when you open multiple of them.

Again, I’m not sure that’s as bad as it may superficially sound. At this rate it will take you 5 years to reach 80% (which seems to be the psychological threshold where your battery life no longer being what it once was becomes very noticeable), which is pretty much the average lifespan of a laptop before you tend to start itching to get a new one for various other reasons as well. But again, that's only based on a 1% drop so far. Others on here definitely seem to have batteries that are deteriorating faster than they should be on a per-cycle basis, so it's worth keeping an eye on it in case it accelerates.

To try to answer your question though, I’ve heard that Chrome isn’t energy-efficient but can’t confirm firsthand because I don’t use it much. One general tip is that screen brightness can significantly affect the battery life. I normally keep mine around 50%, whereas in the 75–100% range you can definitely tell the difference on the battery drain. Also, if putting it to sleep on battery, don’t leave anything connected to either USB-C port (not even an idle cable or adapter), as that will cause the battery to drain more than it should during sleep; which seems to be an actual bug (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252191369) that Apple will hopefully sort out sooner than later.

Otherwise, how do you find the battery life in general? As I commented in the above-linked thread, I’ve found it’s amazing for certain things (e.g. watching Netflix in Safari with little else going on in the background—it will actually approach the advertised 18 hours of video) but then surprisingly average to mediocre for other things that you wouldn’t normally think of as particularly energy-intensive. Mixed bag.

I thought I was at a bad situation but then it doesn't seem like it at all. I'm at 97% after 73 cycles and 7 months of usage