MBP M1 Pro battery draining really quickly

Blaming Chrome and Teams is not what anyone would expect. Working on solutions to optimize macOS is what's needed. Compared to other brands for laptop with any OS, the battery performance is much better compared to this.

Went to Apple and Here’s the result

DIAGNOSIS: They did battery testing and mine was charging to 99% - basically no issues

SOLUTION:

1) Try not to use Chrome OR leave a lot of Chrome tabs open. This is the main battery drainer

2) Be sure to actually turn off your computer at least Once a week.

I did this and it works.

The issue is not in the hardware but how we use it. Also MacBook Air M1 is most efficient as it doesn’t have a fan and thus the battery seems to last longer.

MacBook Pro M1 has fans so it also kicks in resulting in more battery drainage.

PS. I still you chrome as it’s for me the best browser. But I now close everything and don’t leave open chrome tabs as well as shut down my computer every week. The result has been great actually

TRY IT.

Same thing here for my MBP m1 13' recently. Today I lost more than 70% of the battery in around two hours. With regular PDF reading and website browsers. I have adjusted the battery usage options and I am using the most updated OS. Anyone has a similar situation and know how to fix it?

I had the similar issue with my brand new 14” m1 pro.

Called the customer support, they asked me to update the software to the latest version and that fixed it for me. You can give it a shot. I’m on monterey version 12.4

Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately, I have Monterey 12.4 already. But I called them today and did something with my background apps. Looks like the situation is getting better but still testing. I was just shocked by the battery usage yesterday.

Looks like this wasn't a isolated issue. My MBP 16/M1Pro also drains battery extremely fast, I am at 26% after less than 3hours of usage.

I am already on latest MacOS 12.4, it was auto updated always.

I do NOT use Chrome so can't blame google.

Activity monitor says Firefox was the biggest energy user at 20

Any idea how to fix this?

going from a supposedly 20hour battery to 4 hour battery is kinda extreme

I'll place a guess that some of the users experiencing battery issues are also experiencing trackpad issues? I don't know if there is a correlation but my battery life is somewhat dead too, and trackpad works erratically.

For a 3000 bucks laptop, this is quite upsetting. Battery even drains unusually while on 'sleep' :(

@jpjordan0323 did you have any luck with sending in your MacBook for the battery drain?

Fixes are in 12.2.1 -- many users are reporting completely fixed.

No am facing battery draining problem still in 12.2.1, not sure if its due to bluetooth or chrome, but when system is locked, battery is draining fast dropping like 10%

Problem presists.

This is a bad problem. I first bought the Macbook Air [M1] and it was incredible. The battery lasted FAR longer than my NEW MacBook Pro 14 [M1].

How do we fix this?

same exact issue on MBP M1 14"

What OS version you are on?

Same problem here. With my brand new iPhone I have the same problem. Apple is no the same since Steve Jobs passed away. My MacBook Pro 2009 was fantastic

did they find anything?