My Macbook Pro M1 (Max) 16 battery drains crazily fast

After 1 year of usage, about 100 cycles, my Macbook M1 Max is draining like crazy (only 4-5hr maxium on full charge) but the capacity is still 99%. And I only used it for surfing and youtube. I even tried turning on low power mode but it is no different. People told me to open less tabs, turn off bluetooth, use 3-4 level of brightness but it didnt work (besides, whats the point of using a laptop if you have to open only 1 tab, no bluetooth and low brightness). People say this thing can last for 10-11 hours or even 14 hours of light use and 7 hours of HEAVY use but mine no matter what the usage it can only last 4 hours. I tried watching only youtube today and it last 6 hours. The diagnosis is completely fine therefore Apple refuse to fix the machine. I doubt it is not about the battery but it is hardware default or something.


I remember there was one time I spilled milk (only a little) on the charging port, i cleaned it immeadiately, afterwards I had some problems charging as when I moved the charger for a bit it stopped charging, but it was fine several days later. But I noticed there is a pin in the charging port (out of 5 pins) that is kind of black compared to other. Do the charging port and the charger itself has something to do with the battery life?


What more can I do to investigate?


Thanks.


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Posted on Apr 8, 2023 1:08 PM

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Posted on Apr 8, 2023 4:56 PM

I remember there was one time I spilled milk (only a little) on the charging port, i cleaned it immeadiately, afterwards I had some problems charging as when I moved the charger for a bit it stopped charging, but it was fine several days later. But I noticed there is a pin in the charging port (out of 5 pins) that is kind of black compared to other. Do the charging port and the charger itself has something to do with the battery life?


It could. It the burned pin stuck in the down position?


Have you performed an SMC reset?


Reset the SMC of your Mac - Apple Support


ANY anti-virus or so-called "cleaning" apps will shorten runtime, sometimes severely. Neither are needed for a safe Mac.


I tried watching only youtube today and it last 6 hours.


Any streaming videos are heavy use. They work both the CPU and the GPU rather hard as they decode incoming data streams on the fly.


The Chrome browser reduces battery runtime on both Mac and Windows notebook computers,

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Apr 8, 2023 4:56 PM in response to minhid

I remember there was one time I spilled milk (only a little) on the charging port, i cleaned it immeadiately, afterwards I had some problems charging as when I moved the charger for a bit it stopped charging, but it was fine several days later. But I noticed there is a pin in the charging port (out of 5 pins) that is kind of black compared to other. Do the charging port and the charger itself has something to do with the battery life?


It could. It the burned pin stuck in the down position?


Have you performed an SMC reset?


Reset the SMC of your Mac - Apple Support


ANY anti-virus or so-called "cleaning" apps will shorten runtime, sometimes severely. Neither are needed for a safe Mac.


I tried watching only youtube today and it last 6 hours.


Any streaming videos are heavy use. They work both the CPU and the GPU rather hard as they decode incoming data streams on the fly.


The Chrome browser reduces battery runtime on both Mac and Windows notebook computers,

Apr 9, 2023 2:32 AM in response to Allan Jones

Hi,


As I do research on the internet, new macbook with silicone chip has SMC integrated in the chip itself therefore restarting it resets the SMC already (which I have did several times). I dont think youtube is that much of what we should consider heavy use, as in my case surfing the web only still drains the battery really fast (even faster than youtube).



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