"Charging on Hold: Optimised Battery Charging" Anyone seen this with Sonoma 14.1.1?

Thanks, I know that. Sometimes, I check in the Terminal too.

The question is, if you've noticed this "Charging on Hold: Optimised Battery Charging" line in System Settings > Battery?

The "Charging on Hold (Rarely used on Battery)" is not showing for sometime. Or, the "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode" in the System Settings > Battery. Could be a new algorithm.

By the way, the Full Charge Capacity of the battery is getting better with Sonoma 14.1.1, rising to an additional ~2.5% than it was.

It looks like everything is back to normal. It is "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode" with battery charge at 80% now.

At about 13:20, while the battery charge at 90%, it changed in to, "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode." I couldn't take a screenshot then, but took one a bit later, when it was 89%.

I had to go away, so put the MBP to sleep. When I came back a few minutes ago, it was like this, battery level slowly going down.

Later, it went down to 80% and is staying there.

So, back again in the "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode."

It was interesting to have that intermediate stage, "Charging on Hold: Optimised Battery Charging", before coming back to the Desktop Mode. 👌

Well, too early to be overjoyed(?) on getting back the Desktop Mode, yet. In the morning, it was back again "Charging on Hold: Optimised Battery Charging" with a notice that the battery will be charged to full by 16:00 today.

Could be a new way of optimised charging, and/or a new algorithm in Sonoma 14.1.1. Have to check how long will it stay at (official) 100%, and when will it again go back to 80% and/or will it stay at the Desktop Mode longer. The FCC had gotten better, so nothing to worry about (yet). It'll be interesting see how it goes.

And, the strange thing is just after I posted above, the battery was charged to 100%. Even though it says, that the battery was fully charged at 09.08, it didn't. It was nearly an hour later, just a few minutes ago. Looks like the Apple timing is getting somewhat bad. 😏

My MBP is always plugged in. Rarely used on battery, only sometimes, just to check how the MBP is faring on battery. It fares quite well, even after 4 1/2 years. The battery usage is practically the same as promised for a new device 4 1/2 years ago, just about 30 minute less.

Since the last few restarts, as written in the OP, the earlier "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode" had changed to "Charging on Hold: Optimised Battery Charging" and at the same time the FCC had gone up. So, whatever it is, it is doing alright. In a few weeks, I'll run the MBP on battery again, just to check. The Reminder app will let me know when. 👌

I had few weeks of "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode" with the battery level at 80%, until I used it on battery for 7 hours last time (few restarts later). Earlier I had few times of few weeks on that "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode." Lately, this "Charging on Hold: Optimised Battery Charging" came through, and with that the battery level stays at 100%, sometimes going down a bit and returning to 100%, yesterday, for few hours, it went to the "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode" and back again to "Charging on Hold: Optimised Battery Charging."

I'll be observing this situation, as it is quite interesting. I know that, it'd never reach 100%, even if the top bar would show that, it'd be ~ 97%. Of course, I'd be happy if it would stay at 80% as it was before, but as far as it won't use the battery much, electricity power bypassing the battery, and not damaging the battery, I am happy with it. I'll send a feedback to Apple anyway, even though Apple had moved away from Intel chips.

And, back again on "Charging on Hold: Desktop Mode" with the battery charge going down.