Sonoma 14.4.1 making fan running & overheating - clean diagnoses from Apple Genius
Hello! Wondering if anyone here has any advice. I updated my computer to Sonoma 14.4.1 and ever since then my macbook is overheating (gets super hot), runs the fans a lot, and battery dies overnight when not plugged in -- even if it goes to sleep with a full battery. I took it to the genius bar, all diagnostics were clear and they said that my chrome tabs are possibly making the computer overheat. However, I have never had this problem before and I've only got 10 tabs open. I use the feature in chrome where it's not supposed to load pages that I'm not actively using (but for work, I need multiple tabs open!) I use other minimal programs - excel, word, slack, apple mail - maybe spotify sometimes, so should NOT be overheating my computer that is less than 4 years old. OK now I'm ranting, but has anyone found a fix for this? Apple told me to try the computer as a "new user" without Chrome or any of my programs (which will be useless to me) or back it up, wipe it and start fresh.
I know others have had this issue but so far I haven't seen any fixes.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.4
