MacBook Pro frequent complete battery drain on sleep after upgrading to macOS Sequoia

MacBook Pro 2018 Touch Bar

The battery drains completely within 3 hours in sleep mode after upgrading to Sequoia 15.3.2 from Sonoma


Results terminal pmset -g:

  • sleep 1 (sleep prevented by cloudd, identityservicesd, runningboardd, runningboardd, runningboardd)
  • sleep 1 (sleep prevented by backupd-helper)
  • sleep 1 (sleep prevented by sharingd, CloudTelemetryService, backupd, mdsync, mds_stores, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd)
  • sleep 1 (sleep prevented by ProtectedCloudKeySyncing)
  • sleep 1 (sleep prevented by AddressBookSourceSync, bluetoothd, CloudTelemetryService, runningboardd, runningboardd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd, cloudd)
  • sleep 1 (sleep prevented by identityservicesd, sharingd, nsurlsessiond, nsurlsessiond, nsurlsessiond, nsurlsessiond, nsurlsessiond, nsurlsessiond, powerd)
  • sleep 1 (sleep prevented by sharingd)


I don't understand that sharingd is preventing the MacBook from sleep though all sharing is toggled off.


Syslog:

  • ASL Module "com.apple.authd" claims selected messages.
  • ASL Module "com.apple.authd" sharing output destination "/var/log/system.log" with ASL Module "com.apple.asl".
  • Output parameters from ASL Module "com.apple.asl" override any specified in ASL Module "com.apple.authd".

many:

  • [airport] @[40315.701897] (airportProcessCommand.m:1381) Processing event, count[  1]
  • ...(m:1381, m:1667, m:419, m:1585)


Actions I did:

  • turning off iCloud drive
  • turning off all sharing
  • SMC reset
  • NVRAM/PRAM reset


In terminal (step by step):

  • sudo pmset -a sleep 1 disablesleep 0
  • sudo pmset -a powernap 0
  • sudo pmset ttyskeepawake 0
  • sudo pmset womp 0
  • sudo pmset hibernatemode 3 
  • sudo pmset schedule cancelall


The battery drain still consists

Now I'm absolutely clueless what could help.


I would be very grateful for any helpful ideas



MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 18, 2025 6:56 AM

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Posted on Mar 20, 2025 11:06 AM

Issue resolved! 🙂


Go to App Store, download Mac OS Sequoia and install it once again over the existing Sequoia installation.

Don’t use the installation from the recovery partition!


The MacBook is running smoothly now, not overheating anymore and uses barely any battery on sleep.


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Mar 19, 2025 4:55 PM in response to life-is-exciting

I hate to be "that guy", but my wife's 2017 A1706 MBP is doing something similar and I've found zero pointers.

Obviously Apple would prefer that we just upgrade to a newer model (don't want to look poor with such an ooooold laptop, do you?), but this thing has a *brand spanking new* battery, and I'd really like to avoid reinstalling the entire OS. I don't understand why there isn't an easy-to-use built-in tool to see exactly which program used the most battery since the last charge. That should be a given.

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