Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

scintoon

in general it only shows an estimate of less than 6 hours with just Chrome open.

Get rid of Chrome, use Firefox or Safari

Chrome has more than a few issues,.... 😊

An estimate? Thats an understatement when my battery is going to run out its going to run out end of?

Not like it states 2hrs but you may get 6hrs? The battery is draining like milk, yes I fully agree FireFox is the way to go with all its add ons etc but still does not fix the drain on the battery straight from one OS X to the next with no change in habits etc?

Cheers

Same Problem. MacBook Air 2012 13 in 128GB. @100% battery it only lasts 3 hours.

Same Problem..I have a late 2013 MBA..500GB SSD...used to get 6-8 hrs with Mountain Lion...Now I get 2-3 hrs at most...Also, the computer is running much warmer...I can't believe that no one at Apple noticed this during the development of Mavericks..BTW, I think Google Chrome has nothing to do with this. I don't run Chrome and I am having the same problem.

This is something that is really bugging me to be honest. I have an early 2013 Macbook pro Retina 2.7ghz, 512GB, 16GB Ram and I have been running the developer preview since it first went live. Which at the time was giving me close to 11 hours at times which was remarkable. Now however, with the official release I haven't managed four hours today whilst out, and only an hour or so was photo editing the rest was browsing. It's abysmal performance and such a shock and polar opposite to what I expected. I can only hope this is a temporary problem. I have reinstalled the OS twice and am debating wiping the Disk and doing a clean install to see if that remedies it, though I would prefer not to busy as I am right now. As soon as I unplugged the lead whilst writing this it calculates 3 hours 41 minutes with Safari showing as using significant power 😟

Any thoughts on whether a fresh install on a formatted drive will help?

Many Thanks.

Like i undrestand, Maveriks need a time for optimization. Yesterday i have 4 hours instead 6-7 on full battery, but today i have 9 hours with 85% battery.

<3 Maveriks.

After Mavericks install, your "time remaining" WILL BE INACCURATE until you do a SMC reset in most all cases

SMC reset

1. Shut down the computer.
2. Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
3. On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
4. Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
5. Press the power button to turn on the computer.

😊

I resetted smc and pram, but nothing helps. My 2013 air runs 6 hrs on full battery, but it was 12 hrs before mavericks. 😟

Fully agree with xAlekSayx, right after install I only had a fee hours on full charge. I rebooted and it went up to 6 with about 90% charge, and finally about 3 hours later I was at 6 hours with 80ish % charge. No clue what fixed the issue but seems like there is need for Mavericks to adjust.

How long does Mavericks need to adjust please as this is day 2 with no change to my battery loss stil showing as under half of my normal 6hrs?

I experienced the same battery drain problem with my MBA 2013 with i7 the first day that I have installed Mavericks.

Maybe it needs needs some time to fix this issue: right now, after a full battery charge, the time estimation is 20 hours!

John,

There are just as many indicating that users who do not have Google Chrome installed are experiencing the same issue - Google is not the cause of this problem by simple deduction.

It certainly may exacerbate it, and I am perfectly willing to accept that, but you must acknowledge that if a user had chrome installed pre-upgrade, and was getting 9 to 11 hours of battery life, and subsequently to suddenly see that drop to 6 hours after the upgrade makes it difficult (or bullish) to blame this on Google.

I have no doubt their browser is not as energy efficient as Safari, but the fact that users have reported similar drops with Safari (yes SafarI) and Firefox as their browsers.

Further, i am an avid user of google chrome, and as a result of posts like yours, felt it was worth trying to uninstall Google chrome and see the results.

My estimate and realised battery life is still roughyl half of what I used to have before.

I appreciate the input, but I truly think it's time to stop going for the easy blame on Google here.

I also having the same issue...

I am using MBA July 2013, 1.3Ghz intel i5, 4gb ram.

I am not using FIrefox, Chrome... using Safari itself only.

My MBA battery drain very fast, within few mins, from 100% to 97%.

This is my 3rd day using Mavericks OS.

I also found that, when i charging my MBA, it charging fast, but it draining fast as well...

I feel annoying on the poor battery life already...

Anyone can help?

I have the same problem, which is not acceptable, because they said that we would have a great improvement in battery life, but the fact is that we have lost 10-30% of the capacity.

It's true that Chrome rapidly drains it and that Safari works better in this way but I don't want to change my habits.

My solution is simple: reinstall Mountain Lion from scratch, as I like to have enough autonomy more than using iMaps or Finder tabs.

Hi immythekid

Please start a new Discussion with your system details and specific concerns. I can't help you if you don't. Thanks!