Sonoma 14.0 - Draining the battery so fast

Since I installed Sonoma 14.0, My MacBook Pro has been overheating continuously and draining the battery quickly. I found a new usage of my lovely MacBook.... Hot Pack. I hope I can get some help.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 14, 2023 10:04 PM

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Oct 15, 2023 9:18 AM in response to aletheia7

aletheia7 wrote:

Since I installed Sonoma 14.0, My MacBook Pro has been overheating continuously and draining the battery quickly. I found a new usage of my lovely MacBook.... Hot Pack. I hope I can get some help.


Shutting down and restarting more than once after an upgrade has way of sorting issues.


No improvement—

To trouble shoot further you can:


—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies


Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.


This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.



—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 



unplug all third party peripherals when testing


Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS




Still no insight or resolve— I would wait for point-updates to roll out to address known issues...

Currently Sonoma macOS 14.0


you can file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple



Sonoma 14.0 - Draining the battery so fast

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