Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

MrNeon8 wrote:

John Galt wrote:

Hi MrNeon8

Please start a new Discussion with your system details and specific concerns. You won't get the attention you require until you do. Thanks!

Not to worry as Im now reverting back to OS X Mountain Lion as I thought this thread was about Battery Drain issues and not just specific Models issues?

This is the MacBook Air forum. If that is not what you are using, that is only one reason for starting a new Discussion so that your unique circumstances can be addresed.

Reverting to an earlier OS X version is avoiding the problem, not addressing it.

John Galt wrote:

MrNeon8 wrote:

John Galt wrote:

Hi MrNeon8

Please start a new Discussion with your system details and specific concerns. You won't get the attention you require until you do. Thanks!

Not to worry as Im now reverting back to OS X Mountain Lion as I thought this thread was about Battery Drain issues and not just specific Models issues?

This is the MacBook Air forum. If that is not what you are using, that is only one reason for starting a new Discussion so that your unique circumstances can be addresed.

Reverting to an earlier OS X version is avoiding the problem, not addressing it.

Ah right ok so I open an indiviual Thread specific to my machine and specific upgrades i.e. 4gb Ram as opposed to next door who has 3gb Ram etc becasue your going to send out Individual Updates yes?

Dont think so as its the OS X that is not ready for all machines that can use it regadless of it being a MacBook Air or MacBook?

Mountain Lion nearly done and not avoiding the problem just getting away from what you lot cannot sort out before you released it as your now finding out now from the many pages unfolding so far and if its sorted then I for one may go back to Mavericks but will hang back until all forums state that OS X Mavericks is a stable system for Apps and Battery Life for portable units.......................................

Good Day

Update.

Good news. I'm on my third recharge cycle after the upgrade and the battery life is showing quite some imporovement. 8 hours remaining with a 60% charge.

This still, however, translates to the same battery life as on Mountain Lion and shows none of the promised improvements. And secondly, this was after I completely stopped using both Chrome and Google Drive (as in force quit the processes from the Activity Monitor) so I think people saying that Chrome has something to do with this also have a point.

There's something up, though. And Apple better fix it ASAP. This shouldn't happen with a mere OS upgrade.

Edit: Forgot to add my model. It's a 2013 MBA 13' 128GB 4GB

you forgot to add if its a i5 or an I7 .......i7 drains more power

"third recharge cycle after the upgrade and the battery life is showing quite some imporovement"

Give it a couple more charge cycles to level out.

MrNeon8 wrote:

John Galt wrote:

MrNeon8 wrote:

John Galt wrote:

Hi MrNeon8

Please start a new Discussion with your system details and specific concerns. You won't get the attention you require until you do. Thanks!

Not to worry as Im now reverting back to OS X Mountain Lion as I thought this thread was about Battery Drain issues and not just specific Models issues?

This is the MacBook Air forum. If that is not what you are using, that is only one reason for starting a new Discussion so that your unique circumstances can be addresed.

Reverting to an earlier OS X version is avoiding the problem, not addressing it.

Ah right ok so I open an indiviual Thread specific to my machine and specific upgrades i.e. 4gb Ram as opposed to next door who has 3gb Ram etc becasue your going to send out Individual Updates yes?

Yes.

Dont think so as its the OS X that is not ready for all machines that can use it regadless of it being a MacBook Air or MacBook?

Yes. All hardware that meets its minimum requirements can run Mavericks. Those include all Macs that can run Mountain Lion. To address each individual's circumstances requires determining their particular hardware configuration as well as all the aftermarket modifications that a user may have performed, which is the reason each person must create his or her own Discussion.

My battery also drains much much faster after upgrading to Mavericks. There has been no change in the programs I use, or the way that I use my computer. However, after upgrading to Mavericks, I can literally watch my battery life drop (it will drop 10-12% in 20-30min) with only browser use. That's about twice the rate it used to drop.

I have 2012 MBA 256 gb ssd and 4gb mem

Did the SMC and PRAM resets. Battery charge at 92% before said ~6 hours of charge. After reset, now saying 13+ hours. Something worked.

The first thing you should look at when there is excessive power drain is the Activity Monitor (type "Activity" in Spotlight).

There's a tab called "Energy" which will show you how much power drain each process is taking.

Yes, I did that. Firefox was the only significant drainer and there's no way I'm switching to Safari 🙂

In My case the Mail app, is the battery drainner.

I had the same issue with my 2013 13" MBA, however I've reinstalled it from the app store, left it charging and running overnight so spotlight can do it's indexing and now I'm around the 15 hour mark at 100%, whereas it was nearer 9hrs after first install. Let's see how it goes, but something has changed.

Agree. Removed Chrome and battery live improved directly, even if I do not ever use Chrome...

Hmm...doesn't help here.

Used to have battery life of about 4-4.5h on a 2012 11" MacBook Air (i5, 8GB RAM).

After Mavericks I am getting only 2:30h with no apps running. And this is real life usage.

Very disappointing.

Just been made aware of this thread from MacRumors. This was my post.

I have a serious problem now then, I have owned MBA's for three years now and upgraded to the 2013 11" when it came out. Battery life nearly doubled to over 7 hours, but I installed Mavericks last week and I am now down to two hours. This is with exactly the same usage as the past three years, I am retired and disabled so mainly browsing the internet, no music or downloads.

Just done another check, fully charged less than two hours ago and it is now down to 15%. I must be the only one with this problem as you all seem to have even better battery life.

Any ideas before I call Apple? I was already considering returning to ML, as I run Parallels because of the need for Quicken which is essential, and V7 will not run under Maverick.

Cheers

tut

Thanks for the link good to see that I am not on my own. Funny thing is it did not happen after the install, I did not time it to see if there was an improvement, quite happy with 7 hours, but it is just in the past two days when I could not miss that it had dropped to 2 hours.

Definitely will be giving Apple a call tomorrow.

The SMC and PRAM reset definitely helped my 2013 MacBook Air. I've been running 15 minutes and it's never left 100%. It was showing 15:25 hours remaining. The percentage is no longer plummetting every few mins.