My M1 MacBook Air is a brand new one(1 month old). The battery life was awesome until I downloaded and upgraded the OS to the macOS Monterey. The current battery drain is like down to 62% from 100% in just 3 hours. Is anyone else facing the same issue? What can be the steps to downgrade my macOS back to Big Sur?
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
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Yes, I've kinda noticed the same issue with my M1 Macbook Air after updating to macOS Monterey. The battery doesn't last that long as compared to before the update:( I'm wondering if this affects the majority or just a fraction of mac users who have updated to Monterey. Would love to hear your thoughts, anyone?
I reinstalled Monterey from the setup menu. Battery life seems to be a lot better than it was. I'll give it a few days to see if it is as good as it Big Sur. If not, I'll bite the bullet and reset my Macbook Pro to its out-of-the-box state.
Because of all of this messing around with Monterey battery life, I took my Surface Pro with me on my last all-day trip. If I have to take a power adapter because I'm worred about batter life, I might as well take a ligher device!
Apparently is a bug on the battery software in Monterey. I have a MacBook Pro M1 (2020) and the battery on Big Sur lasted two times the capacity compared to Monterey, doing the same stuff. Had to downgrade to Big Sur until Apple corrects this on the next update.
I am facing the same issue with my M1 MacBook Air (4 months old). I had updated my OS to macOS Monterey (version 12.0.1) nearly 10 days back and since then I have been facing the battery drainage issue. Requesting Apple to release an update with the fix soon.
Brand new MacBook Pro M1 14" 32GB 1TB storage only has 1 week.
Unplugged from the office last night around 5pm. Came to use it this morning at 8:40am and battery was flat, well about 5% full. MacBook was a sleep, but I noticed was very warm in my carry case. Very disappointing.
Exectly the same experience here on the same model. A reinstall of Monterey has made things a lot better but bettery life is still not what it was. Seriously thinking about going back to Big Sur.
How was this missed and where is the aknowledgement?
My MacBook Pro 14" M1 drained again to nothing over the weekend from a full charge. Its charged 8 hours a day in a dock whilst in the office. Come to fire it up in the office this morning and totally flat.
I don't have any services running that I know of that could cause this issue. My 6 year old Intel MBP which I traded for this new machine didn't have this issue and my 2014 MBAir still holds battery as good as ever.
Come on Apple there is something seriously amiss here. Definitely think Monterey is the culprit and the older machines were running Big Sur.
I don't want to speak too soon but my M1 Macbook Pro seems to be getting better. I've got low power enabled and it is saying I'll get 14:55 hours from 76% battery charge. This a couple of weeks after reinstalling Monterey over the top of the previous upgrade (which was drainig batter like crazy). We will see...
Thought I'd found the issue being Dropbox Sync. Removed it and after full charge at 5pm last night leaving the office, battery is down to 38% in 15 hours whilst asleep and no usage between then and now. Every morning it is a different app supposedly causing the issue. Today its Spotlight and Maps. When I check activity monitor only Maps is there but not Spotlight. Why would maps be sucking power. Hope Apple are on the case because its a PITA.
I gave up on Google sync on Intel Macs let alone M1. Absolutely killed my machine. Woke up this morning from fully charged at 5pm last night to 35% battery capacity this morning and my MacBook Pro M1 was warm in my bag so clearly it had been working out of hours. According to the stats, Safari and Spotlight were the culprit. Why are these apps still active when the MBP is asleep, it is just not necessary. Can guarantee that I will shutdown tonight at 5pm be back in the office on Monday and it will be flat again. It has lost 65% in 14 hours whilst ASLEEP. I always put the machine to sleep and not just close the lid because I use my machine connected to a screen in the office so have no need to have it open.
I have a similar issue. In my case, my computer is constantly hot and I have to shut it down several times a day to cool down. Before Monterey, I could last a whole day with a full charge but now it takes only 4 hours.
I tried removing Google Drive app but this did not solve the issue. I've been using them for many years, removing them is far more disruptive than removing Monterey. I would rather settle for the less disruptive.
Monterey is a lot better than it was on my MacBook but it's strangely unpredictable; sometimes it's ok, other time's it isn't.
What is a laptop where you don't know how long the battery will last each day! I'll go back to Big Sur when I've got the time to do it.
I have exactly the same problem. Battery disappears almost as soon as the battery power connection is removed. Very frustrating. No one seems to know what is happening and more concerning Apple appear not to be addressing this??????????
I wouldn't hold my breath on a fix. It's not just the battery, Monterey is problematic with many apps; Chrome, Dropbox, Drive, Preview, VPNs, etc, all have problems! Simple solution, return to BigSur. Apple will not fix this.
Battery draining in macOS Monterey - M1 MacBook Air
