Updated MacBook Pro to macOS Sonoma, now battery drains quickly

annor44 wrote:

Have the same problem. Shutting of wifi before going to standby solves it for me.

Not sure what is happening when wifi is on during standby, but it sure is taking all the energy from my battery in Sonoma.

Some apps are working in the background eating up the energy. Best get rid of background apps, 3rd party modifier apps, 3rd party antivirus apps, OneDrive app or at least it's syncing with the "mother" server.

If nothing helps, isn't it better to go back to Ventura and wait until your MacBook becomes compatible with the new Sonoma?

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.

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.

Sonoma Battery Drain checked by me :)

But if you close Chrome and Whatsapp before the sleep then it’s reduce battery drain.

open the lid and open Chrome + Whatsapp desktop version then battery drain 20 % in an hour. Additionaly Adobe Sync Services affect Energy Impact so much.

Anyway … Ventura was good for my M2 Max ‘23, completely. (I'm too lazy to go back to Ventura.)

alperevren wrote:

Sonoma Battery Drain checked by me :)

But if you close Chrome and Whatsapp before the sleep then it’s reduce battery drain.

open the lid and open Chrome + Whatsapp desktop version then battery drain 20 % in an hour. Additionaly Adobe Sync Services affect Energy Impact so much.

Why leave your MacBook sleeping on battery power with all those background apps working and eating up energy? Why not plug it in to power adapter, before putting the MacBook to sleep?

MacBook is not an iPhone.

I know quite a few people, who plug in their iPhones for the night. Some who has an Apple Watch also adds that too to electric power at night, every night.

Just an update

I contacted Apple Support and was given a case number. In the end I was asked to do a time machine backup and to arrange a full disk wipe and re-install of Sonoma run tests overnight with lid closed to see behaviour before then imporing my time machine backup. We could then see how things were and if still an issue try and identify software causing the issue.

At this time due to workload & committments I could not take that time out but they advised there was no rush.

However, In preparation I started backing off almost 400Gb of data I had on my machine before I intend to do my Time Machine backup. I then done a backup & prepared a Sonoma USB.

In the few days I was working on this I then tried closing lid overnight with nothing running on desktop at all and I awoke to 98% battery. The next night I left Chrome running with 4 tabs open and woke up to 97% battery.

Last night I left Chrome, Whatsapp, Terminal, Messenger & xCode sitting there and still awoke to 97% battery.

So for me it looks like isse is resolved. Although I had previously made the power nap, wake for network type changes, perhaps in my case there was a lot of background indexing going on.

Hope this helps someone

It's now been over a week since my last update that my issue had resolved. Last night I also updated to 14.1.2 and all is still ok with the battery.

As I previously mentioned Power Nap and Wake for network access is off and my bluetooth left. I also now leave several apps opened as well and battery drain overnight is a few percent.

I know this will not help a lot of you but certainly in my situation it looks like background re-indexing of Sonoma may have been my cause and that it eventually settled.

Since I have Apple Care+ for my 4 year old 13 inch MBP, I decided to get a new battery while I had the chance. A new battery comes with AC+. My old battery was, as others noted, worked normally on Ventura, but not in Sonoma. However, with the new battery, while better, I was still experiencing too much battery drain after being asleep.

So, I went into settings and toggled OFF:

1.

"Allow notifications when the display is sleep"

"Allow notifications when the screen is locked"

and

2.

I enabled power naps "Only on Power Adapter".

After doing this, I now get a 10% power drain in 12 hours of sleep, which is much improved. Still, I'm not sure if it's my imagination or not, but I am thinking that I used to get next to zero battery drain while sleeping the same amount of time with OS Ventura.

Anyway, you might try the 2 things I mentioned above.

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)

After a number of weeks since posting and upgrading to 14.2.1 the battery drain seemed to have gone away. But then the other morning it was at 2%. Looking at the battery log showed that something during the middle of the nigh came on and drained the battery much faster than I would have expected. :-(

Bit the bullet and did reformat and installed Ventura. All issues of battery consumption are gone and it is working as we all expected from the product. Here is the amazing log that puts Sonoma to shame:

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

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%.

Could you update it to version 14.1, as it was released two days ago, and then check to see if there are any differences in battery performance?

well I just reformatted and went back to Ventura, battery is back to normal now. can someone let us know if apple eventually fixes this issue without the fix being to buy a new $3000 laptop, lol

that is just the same line that get repeated every time somebody reports battery drain on their device, let it be a macbook/apple watch/iphone…

It is always because indexing has to work its way out because of an update or reinstallation, as if most people don’t comprehend such piece of knowledge. 😂