Rapid battery discharge

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Rapid battery discharge

On my Mac 13" pro there is the task "photolibraryd" continuously running and the battery is discharged in a very short time

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Jan 4, 2022 9:39 AM

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Sparks0829

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Jan 5, 2022 9:12 AM in response to vitorizzo

Hi there vitorizzo,

Thanks for reaching out to us here in Apple Support Communities. We understand you're experiencing some battery life issues with your MacBook Pro. We're glad you're here, and we can help.

You'll want to start by working through all the suggested steps in the link below to optimize your battery life and diagnose battery issues:

Get help with your Mac notebook battery

Let us know your results, and we'll take a closer look from there if needed.

Take care.

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vitorizzo Author

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Jan 6, 2022 4:29 AM in response to Sparks0829

Hi there Sparks0829,

Thanks for your suggestion but I already did all the battery test.

I'm afraid that it's something sw related to the behaviour of the Photos app. When I click on the battery icon on the bar I get the information that Photos is using a significant energy despite the app is (apparently) not running. If I open the Activity Monitor app, I can see that the task Photolibraryd is using 220 % of the CPU but, if I click on the energy tab of the monitor, there isn't any task using a significant energy.

One more detail, I reset the "people" album on Photo and I get the information that you can see on the attachment. Apparently is seems that the app will scan all the photos to search "people" but in reality it's stuck.

Thanks again, have a nice day.

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