Hi, my macbook switches off when it gets to about 60% battery. I bought a new battery this time last year. The battery health itself appears fine. I have energy saver on in Chrome. I don't have tons of tabs open. I have 30 gb of 121 gb available disk storage. I'm lost? Can anyone help?
I'm assuming you installed a third party battery since I'm doubtful Apple was still replacing batteries at that time? If this was a third party battery, then the battery could be failing. Unfortunately the quality of third party Lithium batteries is extremely poor even when purchased from a respected vendor. Your best options are from OWC or iFixIt.
FYI, is your battery still under warranty from the manufacturer? Maybe it can be replaced for free under warranty, but it is hard to say what the manufacturer will require as proof of a problem.
Try running Coconut Battery to see how it assess the condition of the battery....hard to say how reliable the assessment is for a third party battery, but it is about all you have to go on here. Also, the health of the battery can fluctuate depending on charge level, so you may want to check its health just before it powers off and as soon as you can log back into macOS after an unexpected shutdown.
You can try an SMC Reset.
You can also try to recalibrate the battery, but I doubt this will help.
I'm assuming you installed a third party battery since I'm doubtful Apple was still replacing batteries at that time? If this was a third party battery, then the battery could be failing. Unfortunately the quality of third party Lithium batteries is extremely poor even when purchased from a respected vendor. Your best options are from OWC or iFixIt.
FYI, is your battery still under warranty from the manufacturer? Maybe it can be replaced for free under warranty, but it is hard to say what the manufacturer will require as proof of a problem.
Try running Coconut Battery to see how it assess the condition of the battery....hard to say how reliable the assessment is for a third party battery, but it is about all you have to go on here. Also, the health of the battery can fluctuate depending on charge level, so you may want to check its health just before it powers off and as soon as you can log back into macOS after an unexpected shutdown.
You can try an SMC Reset.
You can also try to recalibrate the battery, but I doubt this will help.
What battery did you install?
Is it the exact same problem or slightly different?
The problem may be due to software issues and not the battery. Run EtreCheck and post the report here so we can examine it for clues.
Uninstall both DrCleaner and CleanMyMac by following the developer's instructions.
Also, uninstall the VPN software unless you use it to access a school or business network since VPNs don't provide security they advertise.
Thank you
New problem kind of - no longer shutting down with no notice just not holding charge/running down quick
I installed etrecheck - found some suspected malware and removed - restarted and ran again, aside from the age issue the main thing appears to be something in chrome which I had suspected but have no clue how to solve.
report being pasted below
Thank you
The battery is no longer under warranty.
Coconut says its fine.
I've done an SMC reset.
I know who to go to for another battery now if this one is in fact a duffer.
Update - bought and installed a new battery. My mac is losing its charge very very quickly. I am well aware it is old...I need to stave off buying a new one until September. Any tips anyone??
Thanks so much. Done and rebooted. Here's hoping this will be my last message on this!
MacBook Air 2013 shutting down
