Updated MacBook Pro to macOS Sonoma, now battery drains quickly

I further made another update to 14.2 , and WOW, Battery from 100% plugged went to 80% in less than 30min, yes you saw this right, I lost 20% of my battery while its plugged already while I'm just coding using two monitors:D

Is anyone from apple could just say anything?

I also feel battery drain faster in my MacBook Air m1 after upgrading to macOS Sonoma earlier when I use safari for 2 hours for video playback it drain only 4 to 5 % battery but now every hours drain almost 8 to 9% battery

why is it?

Well, I found a solution that worked for me

I was for 3 weeks having this issue after upgrade... All I did , I made a full offline system diagnoses session on my M1 pro max, then I restarted

And Volla, Everything back to normal

So maybe this solution may work for someone

Same here, running hot, draining battery extreemely fast. I am running 14.1.2 and no better for the upgrade to Sonoma. I used to be able to run on a charge for at least twice as long. It even drains with nothing running and with the screen closed. Come on Apple, enough is enough.

I solved my problem: turns out it was widgets in the Notification Center. I hadn't set up any desktop widgets, and since I don't use the notification center I had no idea that the OS upgrade had put a few there (Weather, Stocks, I think maybe Photos). This week I accidentally moved my cursor to the upper right corner of the screen and the Notification Center appeared and I saw these widgets. I removed them and my overnight battery drain has gone from 4% per hour to 5% total overnight.

The thing is, when you upgrade, you should go through every section of the System Settings after the upgrade. Some new options could be added, some other options might be taken off. Also, if your Mac is near an electrical socket, it would be advisable to plug in the Mac, before putting it to sleep, with optimised charging mode enabled👌

I thought I'd posted an update on this, but don't see it. I finally isolated the problem that was leading to me losing about 30% charge overnight - widgets in the notification center. I don't have any desktop widgets, and so I rule out widgets as an issue. But I don't ever use the notification center, and so I had no idea there were widgets there by default (weather, stocks, one or two others). I stumbled upon that this week and once I deleted those my overnight standby battery drain dropped to <5%.

My MacBook Pro 13 2020 has been having this problem since installing Sonoma, but only during the night. Usually I leave it plugged in, so I hadn't really noticed until last week when I left it unplugged two nights in a row and both times it went from 100% to 0% over night in sleep mode. Last night I turned off WIFI before going to bed so that it had no internet connection, left it unplugged and it only dropped from 100% to 98% overnight. This morning at 8 I turned the WIFI back on and over the last 4 hours it has dropped another 2% in sleep mode. So it must have something to do with some kind of external communication it tries to do in the wee hours. iCloud?

I was having this issue for over two months and finally decided to reboot with the factory MacOS. That failed a couple of times, so I did a normal restart. It's been a few days since then and the battery-drain-when-off issues are gone. I had done many restarts previous to this, but they had no effect. (MBP intel Late 2019)

This or another one of many fora about this problem suggested removing widgets, so I did, which for me resolved it.

Battery is back to draining normal fast & hot within 4 hours with my macbook pro 16,2 2020 intel instead of super fast & hot whilst lid closed

hope this simple workaround works for y'all

I posted about not upgrading my mac book air m1 13" and my MacBook pro m1pro to Sonoma because all over the internet I can see issues with battery and you know what happened? my post magickly disappeared !

So I hope they will fix it !

That is usually a symptom of a bad battery. What about the overall runtime? Ignore the percentages that you see, look how long it ran before and after . I have had cases where I was looking at the OS while the only thing that happened was the vendor fixing the meter :(

Last night I turned off my wifi on my MacBook Pro before putting it to sleep and for the first time since upgrading to Sonoma, my battery lost no power overnight. I put it to sleep with 80% and woke up to it at 80%.

I had previously chosen "Enabled Power Naps" Only on Power Adapter and "Wake for network access" Only on Power Adapter with no results. I even replaced my battery through Apple Care with no results, other than it now says Normal Battery Health.

Still, I think my battery drains too fast(for a new battery) while I am actually using it. In the time it took to type this, my battery dropped 5%.

Battery was at 15% and MacBook just shut off and made me plug in power, 14.3, this is so aggravating, have had it on this for at least a month, turned off widgets, no indexing being down, 14 just sucks altogether, trying to ge me to buy a new Mac but I won't do it apple! lol

Updated a couple of days ago to Sonoma, and used my laptop for maybe an hour, left closed in sleep mode. Came back to find it COMPLETELY dead, re-started it, charged it for 15 mins as I needed to move it from one room to another and literally watched it tick from 8% all the way down to 0% in about 3 mins.

My laptop is also now almost too hot to use on my lap - as the name might suggest.