Something is draining my battery life
>MBPro 2020 Big Sur<
I turned my laptop off with 50% battery.
I turned it on like a day later and took the foto.
What is spotlight?
could it be a virus?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2
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Hi, I was having a similar issue where my MacBook Pro (2017) battery would not last long and when plugged in would get really hot and eventually hang. I Googled around and found that this was often attributed to the indexing of Creative Cloud Files, Dropbox, Google Drive File Stream, VMWare virtual machines and backup apps like CrashPlan. So in System Preferences -> Spotlight on the Privacy tab I added those (except CrashPlan, which I don't use) to the list of "Prevent Spotlight from searching these locations:" and it's fixed!
Hope this can help you and anyone else with this issue!