Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

My battery is showing 5-6 hours. It's a drop by half basically. Maybe it'll get fixed soon? I hope.

scintoon

Mavericks is supposed to increase it dramatically?

It does, I notice a huge change in speed and power

15.68 HOURS on a 2013 Macbook Air 13"

Yeah, I'm seeing a shortened battery life on my Macbook Air 2013 13" model.

My config is 256GB HDD, 8GB RAM and Core i7.

On 10.8 I had at least 10 hours consistantly, up to 15 hours on a good day.

Now the most I've gotten from Mavricks is 8 hours, and as low as 6 hours...

No idea what is going on. This is stupid, and Apple should figure this out.

Yep, me too. Haven't been through a full discharge cycle yet but it's showing 6 hours remaining with the battery fully charged on my Macbook Air 2013 13"; down all the way from around 13 hours on Mountain Lion.

I really hope that it's something to do with Mavericks being recently installed. Because the minor improvements are so not worth half the original battery life.

hi there,

i got the same problem.

with mountain lion i got nearly 12 hours of battery life, after installing mavericks i got nealy 5 hours!

uheaven said it, the changes are never ever worth the battery life time!!!

apple, i hope you will fix this issue soon!

Hi,

Same problem on my macbook Air 11, 2013 Haswell,. My battery has a 4h life since Mavericks upgrade and was 8h before. I've made a real test, without taking in account the time remaining shown in the tool bar. I was just using Google Chrome for the 4 hours.

b0mb4 ~ Welcome to the Support Communities.

b0mb4 wrote:

apple, i hope you will fix this issue soon!

Apple isn't here — you can let them know of the problem via this page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookair.html

I have the same issue. 15" 2012 MBPr, 2.4GHz, 16GB, 512SSD, NVIDA GT 650M 1024 MB. Upgraded from Mountain Lion to Mavericks. I typically get in the 7 to 9h range. First usage on Mavericks unplugged, I went from 100% to 11% in about 4h. Coda 2 and Safari being the only things open. Geektool also running in the background, updating a few desktop widgets.

I'm going to let it run all the day down, then charge it back up and hope that that helps.

In the time it took me to type this, it went from 12% to 7%.

I'm seeing the same issue. My 11" 2013 macbook air has poor battery life after mavericks install.

I let my computer drain down to 6%, charged to 100% and unplugged again. With 100% battery, it's estimating 3h5m.

I installed Mavericks Tuesday and my computer has been on at least 20 hours since the install. I would think Spotlight is finished indexing by now.

I have same issue on my 13'' 2013 air. Full battery goes empty in 6 hours after I installled mavericks.

Have the exact same problem on a 13" 2012 Macbook Air, 8 gb, i5. Are you kidding me Apple?!

Does anyone try with a PRAM reset? Maybe that will fix the issue...

Same problem here. MacBook Pro 2011. Let me try reset PRAM...

Hi All,

I also am experiencing the same issue - I upgraded my Macbook Air 2013 (8GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, i7 1.7GHz) to Mavericks last night and noticed when I unplugged my power cable that the Time Remaining reported at 6 and a half hours despite being 100%.

I assumed it was a calculation bug but quickly found it was in fact only about 6 and a half hours before the battery was discharged down to 5%. Tried this morning again and found same battery life (unplugged at 10am, was drained by 3pm).

My usage pattern involves keeping multiple programs open: Mail, Calendar, Chrome (multiple tabs), iTunes, Messages, Notes, Word.

This pattern hasn't changed since I got my Mac in July and I would consistently get 11-13 hours battery life.

I thought Chrome might be the issue (many people above are indicating they use Chrome, so I'm going to switch to Safari and see if that remedies the problem and post my findings here.