Updated MacBook Pro to macOS Sonoma, now battery drains quickly

Not for me it didn’t.

No the new version makes the problem even worst.

@apple Can you please fix the issue?

Update: 14.1.2 has not helped this problem.

mine is a mess too, just turned mine back on and the battery went from 35% to 1% and died in 2 minutes, I plugged it in, it woke up and now the battery says 40%, makes no sense at all

I'm on 14.1.2 and my battery is a mess once its lower than like 40%, drops to 1% out of nowhere and dies, I plug in power and it jumps back to 40

Battery drain is a real problem and it's really surprising that Apple had done nothing about this. What's also surprising is the lack of research that goes into releasing new software and updates.

not here...

This is the very common issue that every third is facing in the world. The battery backup is sinking slowly by slowly without any use. I can't get solutions till right now.

They will, however, tell you from a stage that you are holding your phone wrong and there are no issues with their products.

lariva wrote:

They will, however, tell you from a stage that you are holding your phone wrong and there are no issues with their products.

Well, if you have a phone that runs macOS... 😏

Thanks for the reply, Catalin! This is very helpful. I'll go over the same steps as you did and I'll report back. At this point, other than praying, I'm running short of ideas!

went to bed with 40% battery, woke up to it saying it was "dead" but when I plugged in the charger it came right on and said I was at 35%, this update sucks so bad, lol

I can't believe that Apple still haven't sorted this out!

I wonder what the variable here is as it apparently made it past whatever (limited) testing/QA they do these days.

I initially thought it may have been an Intel vs M1 thing, but that appears to not be the case.

It is interesting to see how your MacBook(M1)'s battery fares in the evening today, as it is just sleeping and without the wifi connection. Even while sleeping, the MacBook is working, so the battery is not at rest. As wifi is not connected, most probably no open apps too, maybe it's better to just shut off the MacBook for the night. In your way of usage, you are opening your MacBook only in the evening, so it would be really rested being fully off for nearly 15 hours daily. In my Intel MBP 2018, the booting is just a few seconds, and it has a nice booting up sound too. And, the rested battery seems to have better capacity.

By the way, if the MacBook is shut off, whether the wifi is on or off is not significant.