My macbook pro battery is not charging

?? How can you check if the battery health is OK if the Mac won’t switch on?… for that matter how can you reset the SMC and the PRAM if the battery doesn’t work it’s not charging and the Mac won’t switch on?…

Disregard my last post, I figured it out, and it worked like a charm!!! I am so happy thank you so so so so so so much!!!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YhrU5luryQU

None of this advice helped and my battery is saying it is ‘normal’, I only replaced it about 6 months ago. Over the last year I’ve spent so much money on this laptop, replacing practically all it’s internal elements due to weird issues like this, where the battery won’t charge or is just shuts itself off randomly, or the USB port doesn’t work. I’ve replaced everything, including the battery, to the point where it’s a totally new laptop now. It worked fine for about 6 months after replacing the motherboard and now the battery won’t charge again. It absolutely feels like planned redundancy to me, as it’s clearly a software “bug”, none of the above solutions help me.

Hello there! I first would like to thank you for putting this out there, I am trying it as we speak. I have tried absolutely everything after the machine was brought to me (I am a tech, so I fix laptops, smart phones, game consoles etc. I have to admit that I haven’t worked on many MacBook laptops in my career, I am mostly a smart phone repair person whether it be hardware or software. So I appreciate anybody that puts their information out there and shares with the world. But that being said, I do have a question. I just changed the battery in a MacBook Pro 13 inch, model A2289. When it first arrived, it was completely dead and would not turn on no matter what. So I changed the battery, and I used an aftermarket offbrand. At first, her machine was still on Catalina because she hadn’t used it in a couple of years. So the battery was charging just fine. I had no issues and then it automatically updated to macOS Sonoma after the update, it now will not take a charge no matter what I’ve tried. I’ve reset the SMC multiple times, and it’s still not working. I found your answer, and I am trying it now. It has died, it’s not plugged in, and the low battery indicator pops up when you try to turn it on, but it doesn’t turn on fully. I was wondering what I do to further drain the battery since I can’t turn on any longer because it doesn’t turn on at all. Or should I just sit here and wait the 20 minutes like you advised? I think you in advance for any help you can provide, have a wonderful day!

I had a similar problem: no lights in the MagSafe plug; battery percentage indicator missing from screen and efforts to reset that failing every time. SMC and NVRAM resets useless.

I followed your instructions TO THE LETTER, even uploading the entire post to Notes, so that I'd have it on my iPhone. It worked. It worked GREAT! nde176 - Sir, take a bow! You're a genius! Thank you!

The battery to my computer is not charging at all as only at 75% yesterday I got to like 80 that’s the max but I think the day that it turned off completely because my computer froze completely. It messed up the battery so I don’t know what to do.

None of this worked for me, would welcome other opinions.

I don’t know if you ever figured this out, but you have to just keep pressing the power button and holding it and just continue doing SMC resets over and over again that’s what I did and it worked.