Updated MacBook Pro to macOS Sonoma, now battery drains quickly

I may have had a breakthrough: last night I turned off wi-fi before putting the computer in Standby, and today for the first time since Sonoma I woke up to 100% batter after 8+ hours of Standby. No idea what the computer's been trying to do with wi-fi - something iCloud related? - but looks like, for me at least, that's been where the problem lies.

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!

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

With wifi on my battery drains like **** when going to sleep and is empty next morning. With wifi off, behavior as usual. Have Sonoma active for 2 weeks. Not sure what is happening when wifi is on during standby, but it sure is taking all the energy from my battery in Sonoma.

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"

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Ventura workin time 12-13 hours for my MacBook Pro M2 Max 2023. (Battery Health 98 %) After Sonoma ... decreased to 4 hours.

I have MBP 2016 and Battery Health is 80 %. But using Ventura and workin time 9 hours in avg.

Sorry but Sonoma f* my MBP 2023 Battery Maximum Capacity and Battery Drain in 3 or 4 hours in sleep mode.

investigating how to stop "Idle Wakeups" signals on MacOS. And looks it's hard to prevent in Sonoma. Fixed that problem on Ventura in MBP 2016 last year. It stil ok for me About Battery aging and Drain.

Aidenfaru wrote:

Apple has not yet addressed this issue, and it is crucial for them to resolve it in their upcoming updates for macOS Sonoma. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that they will prioritize this matter unless we draw attention to it.

For Apple to address "the matter", whoever has a problem must send a feedback.

Drawing "attention" here doesn't bring any results. This place is for users to help other users. MacOS and Apple products are proprietary, so the internals are not known/shown to outsiders. So, if you want Apple to look at the "matter" and to "resolve it in their upcoming updates", send a feedback.

Update:

Did Apple disable images? Or they need to be unlocked by an apple employee?

Ok, what you should see is a graph from 6 pm to 11am with nearly no battery usage. Perhaps one percent, but you can't see it on the graph.

So the update to MacOS 14.1 did something good for the battery.

What I did was to unplug everything from the laptop ( external screens and even the power cable…everything) and there is NO battery drain. If I leave it with the external screen plugged in, even though it’s off and unplugged, the laptop goes from 100% to zero overnight.

Battery drain. UNPLUD EVERYTHING FROM THE MACBOOK, external screens, even the power cord! I have a 2018 MacBook Pro with original battery. Loses 1% only over night. UNPLUD every cable in and out of the computer.

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:

• Turned off App Nap
• Turned off Screen Time
• Reinstalled Sonoma (not fresh reinstall)
• Deleted Chrome
• Deleted NordVPN
• Deleted all accounts from Calendar app
• Changed desktop background to a flat black color
• Fresh restart before putting in standby, checked activity monitor to make sure nothing running (e.g no helper apps)

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)

I had run some command to list wake requests and had seen one process that seemed repeatedly active in this report:

2023-10-31 05:50:02 -0400 Wake Requests [process=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance deltaSecs=7198 wakeAt=2023-10-31 07:50:00 info="upkeep wake"] [*process=powerd request=AdaptiveWake deltaSecs=504 wakeAt=2023-10-31 05:58:27] [process=powerd request=TCPKATurnOff deltaSecs=14886 wakeAt=2023-10-31 09:58:08] [process=powerd request=CSPNEvaluation deltaSecs=739 wakeAt=2023-10-31 06:02:21] [process=powerd request=UserWake deltaSecs=7132 wakeAt=2023-10-31 07:48:55 info="com.apple.alarm.user-invisible-com.apple.calaccessd.travelEngine.periodicRefreshTimer,408"]

calaccessd seems to be calendar related, which is why I deleted all accounts from the Calendar app but, again, that did not work.

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.

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

How about putting every app working in the background off? Clear everything in System Settings > Login Items.

After disabling screen time and restarting my laptop, I haven't hooked my laptop to power in 2 days. Tried some suggestions from this site.

i also downgraded to mac os Ventura and everything went back to normal.

trashcoder wrote:

ok, again:

Wifi on: Battery empty within three hours

Wifi off: Battery not empty within three hours

Chances are one or more apps are accessing the Internet and causing the laptop to work harder. iCloud and other cloud file syncing services are a possibility as are any other online apps such as e-mail apps and web browsers & social media apps. You would be surprised how many apps go online to check for & install updates in the background & are constantly transferring data back & forth.

i didn't installed anything new. I don't use anti virus apps.

Cleaning/optimizer apps and third party security software are also known to cause these issues as well.

File sharing & BitTorrent apps will also cause a lot of activity & battery drain.