Aidenfaru wrote:
1. Thoughtful inquiry: What do you believe your contributions bring to this ongoing conversation? Numerous individuals have vocally expressed that, under typical circumstances, their devices did not experience overnight battery depletion. However, after transitioning to Sonoma without altering their usage habits, they've noticed a substantial increase in battery drain. Understandably, they're seeking an explanation for this shift. Yet, you consistently interject with comments such as, "It's simply a matter of poor usage... if background apps are left unchecked, the battery will inevitably deplete, irrespective of the operating system." What these individuals are emphasizing is that this was not the case with the previous OS.
You are also overlooking the fact that maybe, just maybe, one or more of your third party apps is not behaving properly with macOS Sonoma. Very few people in this thread have actually mentioned doing anything to eliminate this possibility by uninstalling third party apps. Some developers of third party apps may take weeks or even months, or even longer before they make their apps fully compatible with a new major OS release.
I'm not saying that macOS is not at fault, only I haven't seen too many people go through all the work necessary to prove it. Just going back to Ventura is not enough since a third party app may be incompatible with Sonoma. All going back to Ventura proves is the third party app doesn't have a problem with Ventura.
Furthermore, as you mentioned earlier, your battery usage is approximately 6 to 7 hours, which, for M1 or M2 users like us, is subpar. on ventura, we were accustomed to enjoying an average battery life of at least 12 hours.
Many times I don't even get 6 hours battery life even on my Big Sur M1 MBPro. In fact my battery charge dropped over 10% in less than an hour while just shopping online, checking my email, and viewing these forums. Is macOS at fault here?
I support thousands of laptops for my organization and I can tell you from personal experience things are not always what they seem and it is difficult to properly troubleshoot issues. I see threads like this on this forum and I see so many people without a clue on how to properly troubleshoot their computer issues. So many people don't want to do the work necessary to attempt to figure it out and just want to jump on the blame bandwagon without proving that a default clean install of macOS without any third party apps installed and without restoring from a backup still has the same battery draining issues. Like I mentioned in another post, I was helping a co-worker who is an IT tech to look for a battery drain issue and it was difficult to identify...took me a while to identify an issue. I'm a tech with over 20 years experience supporting computers and was assisting another tech who should be able to figure out the problem. Guess what? It was not macOS, but some setting and configuration issue involving iCloud and their photos. Even a clean install of macOS may still have resulted in the same issue. I guess it could be considered the fault of macOS. But the real moral of the story is it was not easy to figure it out.
But very few people here are actually trying any of the suggestions both @chdsl, myself & perhaps a couple of others presented. All I see is a lot of blame on Apple without showing anyone doing more than reverting to Ventura & assuming it proves Sonoma is at fault. I believe I did read where one user actually did some work and discovered a third party app was at fault....congratulations to that user actually taking the time to do the hard work. Now I'm not saying you are wrong, I just haven't seen enough proof in this thread to make that assessment. This is from a person with over 20 years of experience. And no, I am not defending Apple here, I am defending traditional troubleshooting practices and not jumping to conclusions and the blame bandwagon without doing due diligence.
