Battery warning notifications in Ventura not visible in Settings. Weird charging behavior.

I have a MacBook Pro, 13 inch, 2017, running Ventura 13.4. After travelling with it, I plugged in the adapter. This morning, using it on external screens, without any notifications, everything went black and the machine turned off.


Looking at the battery history, I can see it charged to 100%, then slowly discharged overnight while the charger is still plugged in.


Looking further, the battery cycles are 375, see attached. My Notifications settings area doesn't even have a "batteries" entry such as seen on this.








Another weird thing is that the status menu (top), the battery settings page and the System Information page don't agree on whether the battery is charging or not !!



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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jun 9, 2023 4:59 AM

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Jun 9, 2023 8:37 AM in response to tuck1s

Since there is no application called Batteries, there is no reason for that to appear where you are pointing to.


Notifications like "If you do not plug to a power outlet your mac will sleep soon" are governed by the OS, and you cannot enable or disable them.


Now the discrepancy between the information shown in two places is a bit odd - but could it be just a matter of a delay? I mean, say if a few minutes later it may say 25% instead of 23%, would it still say it is not charging?

Jun 13, 2023 12:40 PM in response to tuck1s

If we look at original image suppled by the Author of this question


The Not Charging in the " Purple Square " agrees with the System Information.


Even if the charger is connected to the computer and plugged into a wall socket does not always translate to the Wall Socket IS providing electrical to Charger


When I have traveled abroad, I alway Test the wall sockets before hand.


There are times the wall socket requires a separate Light Switch type of On and Off to function ?




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Jun 12, 2023 12:50 AM in response to tuck1s

tuck1s wrote:

Yes, but there is another screenshot (the text is "3→ Now, Enable the Battery Notification on your Mac from notifications settings, Notifications > Battery.").

I don't have that item.


If you read carefully, the name is Batteries (plural). After thinking and searching a bit, I now know why: this is a third party application that the poster of that article has installed on his mac!


I don't think it is worth paying for, but it's your call. There are many other battery applications, some available in the Mac App Store, some elsewhere (as it the case with the application in question).

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