Updated MacBook Pro to macOS Sonoma, now battery drains quickly

Yes even I am facing the heat issues all of a sudden and faster battery drain after updating my macbook air m1 to Sonoma. I waited for somedays but now it has already been a week. I never faced any heat issues before this and the battery backup so good. Will there be any update coming in the future to get it fixed?

I hope this works for you. I don't trust myself to use Terminal though. I hope people are also reporting this issue to Apple via Feedback. Product Feedback - Apple

Well, then you might have go back to Ventura to check, if this is just the new OS doing something not normal with your M1 MacBook. But, before doing that check System Settings > General > Login Items, if that has any apps there to run in the background. If so, delete all of them. If nothing helps, it might be a physical problem with your MacBook. You may have to take it to repairs. WiFi just can't take so much energy in any laptop, Mac or Windows or Linux.

My Intel i7 15" 2018 Touch Bar MBP after 7 hours still had 25% battery power on Sonoma. M1 MacBook should do much better!

HWTech wrote:

I am probably one of the few people who have really performed detailed observations of the Apple batteries because I am responsible for supporting thousands of my organization's Apple laptops.

@HWTech

I've been reading this thread here about battery draining of M1 MBA started on Jun 7, 2021, so the OP must've been running Big Sur. That thread has 12 pages, going all the way to Feb 1, 2023.

Except those, who had older MacBooks, the owners of M1 MacBooks were complaining that their batteries were draining and with very small cycle count, so through Big Sur, Monterey and Ventura. So, could this battery draining problem a M1 MacBook problem rather than an OS problem, or that the M1 MacBook and the OS cannot work well in the power management area?

Please read that old thread. That was through Big Sur, Monterey and Ventura regarding the battery drain of M1 MacBooks. This problem is not just a Sonoma matter.

(My Intel i7 2018 Touch Bar, by the way, is compatible with Sonoma and ran 7 hours on battery and still had 25% of battery power with normal daily work with wifi, bluetooth on.)

Sorry but All is started anter Sonoma Upgrade ****

And I say it again: Maximum Capacity or Battery Health to 98 % in 4 months not normal in my usage habis. I have 4 different generation MBPs and this Battery aging not normal.

I found a solution for my MBP M2 Max 2023. Maybe it's a bad idea but not worst.

Still full now after 17 hours of sleep. (Not shutdown, just closed lid to sleep)

as I understand, Google Chrome Assistant (Renderer) and WhatsApp Assistant (Renderer) wake up macOS while it is sleeping. Yesterday I turned it off before the lid was closed.

And I ran a few commands on "pmset -b" (about "Find My Mac" this might be a bad idea but I had to try it)

I'll try * Helper closed AND "pmset -b" values is "1"

• Probably, Google Chrome and WhatsApp are usual suspects about battery drain on my Macbook.

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dino7777 wrote:

I think we all have a bigger issue here. Switching to Sonoma reduced my battery drastically.

My iPad lost 12% battery capacity!!!

Apple has to do something.

I don't think macOS Sonoma will have any effect on draining the battery of an iPad. macOS is only used on a computer. An iPad does not use macOS, but iOS and there is no Sonoma OS for an iPad.

I monitor the battery strength/capacity regularly on all my devices. Updating to Sonoma reduced my battery capacity by over 1.200 mA. That is about 12% of the battery capacity.

I own an iPad Pro M2 12.9inch (iPad 14,6).

Before the update to Sonoma the iPad had 10.707mA battery capacity. That is about 99,5% of the default of a new and healthy battery.

My iPad lost 12%!!!

If you are monitoring the battery of the iPad from within macOS, then who knows whether the app you are using is properly accessing the battery information on the iPad's battery.

Plus do you mean battery capacity or battery charge level? They are two completely different things. Battery Capacity is the total amount of power the battery can provide when fully charged. While charge level is how much power is available until the battery needs recharged. Battery Charge Level dropping quickly on an Apple laptop running macOS Sonoma is the topic of discussion in this thread. Battery capacity is not the problem, just battery charge level & battery runtime on laptops running Sonoma. iPads batteries have no bearing on this discussion. If you are having issues with iOS 17.x on your iPad, then you should be discussing iPad battery runtime issues in the iPad forums here:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipad

abeagler wrote:

• I've posted a few times in this thread, but just wanted to summarize various things I've tried that have not worked. As context, I'm in a 2020 Intel MBA running Sonoma 14.1.1 with no external peripherals attached, and I see battery drain during standby of about 3-4% per hour. If I turn off wi-wi overnight the battery drain is zero, so I've been trying to figure out what's using the wifi overnight:

It is so refreshing to see someone actually trying to investigate the issue and provide details on what has been tried. So wonderful to see. And thank you.

Things I have not yet tried:Things I have not yet tried:

* Full, wipe-hard-drive-and-start-over install of Sonoma

• Downgrade OS

• Turn off iCloud drive

• Delete Microsoft Office apps (need them for work use)

iCloud drive would be my first choice here. Or any other cloud based service.

If you have enough free space on your internal boot drive, then I would suggest creating a new APFS volume within the same hidden Container as your main OS. Give it a unique name like "Clean", or "Sonoma", etc. Creating a new APFS volume within the same Container tends to act like a partition, but it does not have the risk of modifying the drive or putting any limits on its size. A new APFS volume will share the storage pool used by the main OS, but each will be completely separate. Then install a fresh copy of Sonoma into the new APFS volume so you can test it without affecting your main boot volume. When you are done testing the clean install of Sonoma, just boot back into your main OS volume so you can delete the new Volume Group associated with the clean install of Sonoma.

You can also do the same with Ventura if you want. Having Ventura & Sonoma sharing the same APFS Container is not a problem.

Not sure I want to go through all the hassle of wiping the hard drive and starting over just to add back one app per day. Seems like it should be comeone's actual paid job to fix this.

I haven't seen any signs that Apple has even acknowledged any battery drain issues with Sonoma so hoping for a fix from Apple is probably futile until someone can prove to Apple that Apple is at fault. Or open enough support tickets with Apple for them to take notice. In the mean time, people can provide Apple with product feedback here:

Product Feedback - Apple

I agree however, I just noticed Sonoma 14.1. Does this update do any difference? It doesnt say anything in the release notes as in: lets just quietly add a fix for the battery while addressing a bunch of other stuff.

Apple security releases – Apple Support (UK)

VectorX wrote:

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.

That's exactly what it is, optimised charging mode. You should be happy that that mode is working in your Mac. Your Mac/macOS is doing its best. to save your battery while plugged in all the time. 👌

Have read, About Optimized Battery Charging - Apple Support

Same here, I updated M1 Pro 13.3”.

Works very well plus the battery life seems to be improved :)….

• for example, today I used MBP for 8,1 hrs working on .js, nodejs, chrome, safari, vscode, (battery drained from 98 to 64%) . Cheers.

UPDATE!

So I had issued with Sonoma and it would drain my batter ridiculously quick, like 5 minutes and power off after a full charge, notification to say I had to go to get an Apple service repair.

I rang up support and they advised me to reset my SMC by:

1. Hold the LEFT control, LEFT option and RIGHT shift keys for 7 seconds
2. Then press the power key while still holding the above keys, for 7 seconds
3. Release and wait a few seconds before turning on (mine automatically turned on)

This worked and I have had no issues with my battery since. Hope this helps everyone out.

Finder is a file manager. It will open in a new window (or a new tab) in the way you've set it in a given Mac computer, whether you use the fixed screen or more external screens. For example, Finder in my MBP will open in the Desktop and in any new window. The Desktop is the place I work on.

Any other Mac computer will have its own Finder, and will open the way it is configured there.

A further update. Last night I restarted my (2020 Intel) MBA right before bed, took a screenshot from the Activity Monitor network tab, and then left wi-fi on overnight. This morning I took another screenshot when I opened the computer and before I did anything with it. Top of this photo is last night, bottom is this morning. Assuming this reflects overall activity through the night (I'm not 100% sure it does, I'm a rookie at all this), it seems the corespeechd process was busy receiving packets overnight (it appears to be related to Siri, which I have turned off), but mDNSResponder seems to have been very busy both sending and receiving overnight. Of note, all of these, I think, are system processes. This is not listing, say, a Chrome updater:

FWIW, I have "Wake for Network Access" and Power Nap set as "Only on Power Adapter"

I had previously updated my MacBook M1 to Sonoma, and I started experiencing a frustrating decrease in battery life, only getting around 4 to 5 hours on a single charge. Subsequently, I decided to downgrade to macOS Ventura, and now I consistently achieve 12 to 13 hours of battery life on a single charge, as evidenced in the screenshot above.

Additionally, it's worth noting that I typically charge my device up to around 90% and use it until it drops to 20-15%. This practice consistently provides me with 12 hours of battery life on the remaining 80-85% of the battery capacity.