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MBP M1 Pro battery draining really quickly

My new Macbook Pro M1 Pro 14' drains really quickly on battery - more than 20% an hour - doing just reading PDFs using adobe. I know this isn't an adobe problem because using other programs in isolation (Word, safari, etc) makes it drain even faster. I've closed all unnecessary background programs, switched off bluetooth, location, siri and pro-motion, turned low battery use mode on when on battery and checked that the OS is up to date. The battery drain is really terrible despite all this.. Any ideas what might be wrong?

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Jan 2, 2022 5:43 AM

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CHALE

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Posted on May 6, 2022 8:05 PM

I'm having the same issue. I bought the m1 pro 14 just a month ago, and if I get about 5 hours with light usage. I do not have Chrome installed. Just doing some YouTube, Word and 2 zoom calls. I lost 40% in under 2 hours. Any ideas? I'm in the latest OS 12.3.1. Any ideas? or should I take it to a genius bar? Thanks

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