no plug icon fully charged
just bought a new mac. It says it's fully charged but the Battery Icon still showing a lightning bolt and not the plug icon. is this normal?
thanks
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.4
just bought a new mac. It says it's fully charged but the Battery Icon still showing a lightning bolt and not the plug icon. is this normal?
thanks
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.4
That is normal.
Battery Management.
How battery health management helps
The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery's lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery's temperature history and its charging patterns.
Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery's maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure that your battery charges to a level that's optimized for your usage—reducing wear on the battery, and slowing its chemical aging. Battery health management also uses the measurements to calculate when your battery needs service.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211094?cid=mc-ols-energy_saver-article_ht211094-macos_ui-04022020
Service Recommended is the alert a user needs to worry about.
That is normal.
Battery Management.
How battery health management helps
The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery's lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery's temperature history and its charging patterns.
Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery's maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure that your battery charges to a level that's optimized for your usage—reducing wear on the battery, and slowing its chemical aging. Battery health management also uses the measurements to calculate when your battery needs service.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211094?cid=mc-ols-energy_saver-article_ht211094-macos_ui-04022020
Service Recommended is the alert a user needs to worry about.
If you have "Optimized battery charging" enabled in Battery preferences,
it should eventually switch to the plug with a status "On Hold", i.e. the
adapter is not charging the battery and the MaBook Air is running off
the power adapter.
no plug icon fully charged