Yosemite Battery Drain

Honestly if I had known or read through these battery drain problems I wouldn't have updated to Yosemite from Mavericks. I just bought my MBP this May and everything seems okay with battery life about 7-8 hrs on full charge (quad-core). Now I have 4 hrs on same full charge on this Yosemite. I have just backed up and my plan now is to wipe it and put back Mavericks. This will just take lots of my precious time because I have to install Bootcamp again and all the software I had in them, not pleased at all 😟. Is there any solution yet?

Problem description:

My battery drains much faster on Yosemite than with Mavericks.

EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)

Report generated 18 November 2014 05:37:41 GMT

Hardware Information:ℹ️

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) (Verified)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro11,3

1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core

16 GB RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

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Intel Iris Pro -

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 2048 MB

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OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 0:8:45

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10.10.01 update ?...where?

check with OSXdaily to see what the fixes are, one just happens to be:

"Addresses an issue that might prevent the Mac App Store from displaying certain updates"

yep sure thing, check and nothing showing.

Open purchases, sign in...sign out...sign in

Move to back to updates ...updates finally shows.

ah ha!

I updated to 10.10.1, but the battery issue remains. I have reset the pram and smc, but no luck. The issue is with Safari, or at least in large part. I switched to Google Chrome about a week ago (as much as I don’t want to) and am experiencing almost 6 hours of battery life. While this is not the length of use that I had with Mavericks, this is definitely better than less than 2hrs when using Safari. I’ve posted many many times on this thread, and have seen all of the suggestions. From what I have been able to figure out, Safari has been the culprit of the battery issue.

If you haven’t tried using Chrome until Apple releases an update for Safari, maybe that will work. If not, then I don’t know what the heck to do. All I know is that I wish Apple @Apple #Apple APPLE (trying to get someone to pay attention for once) would fix this crap. No, I’m not tech-heavy, but I have done what has been suggested on this post. I realize this is a simple suggestion, but maybe it will work as a temporary hold-over for some of you as it has for me.

Hmmm...just posted the below in another (much shorter thread) - but thought, for the sake of getting everything in 1 place, should also post it here as well:

"I'm having the same problem since changing to Yosemite. I'm running a Nov 2013 Mac Book Pro. I used to get an 8+hour battery life, but I've noticed the power consumption appears to have increased significantly. I've just this moment taken the power lead out - with the battery showing a 100% charge - and it's indicating it'll last 2hrs 52mins!!! It confirms there are no Apps using significant energy.

I've just scheduled a call back from Apple - but have to wait until 26 November 2014."

I'd be glad to hear if anyone gets a solution to this as I often use my Powerbook on long train journey's and less than 3 hours is no good to me - that's one of the reasons I originally got Mac in the first place. :-(

Odd how I see a WiFi issue being talked about on 'Macrumours' and '9to5mac' but I haven't come across any reports about a battery drain issue despite the fact that this thread is now 14 pages long?

I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make?

Yes it may be an estimate - but before Yosemite upgrade it 'estimated' 8hrs plus; after it 'estimated' less tan 3hrs. When I used it on battery it went down a lot quicker than previously.

I use it a lot at home in the evenings - used to finish the night at about 50 to 70%; after upgrade 15 to 20% sometimes less - same kind of use.

That demonstrates, in real terms, the same battery not lasting as long - the only thing that changed was the OS.

However, as I said after the 10.10.1 upgrade its now 'estimating' it'll last longer. I'll use it again tonight and see if, in reality, that's correct or not.

The point is simple.

It's not a fact, it's an estimate. And if your useage changes then the estimate also changes.

I prefer facts to estimates, you can decide for yourself, I am not asking you to use facts if you prefer not to.

Here’s a simple point. Many users are having trouble with their computer that is arguably one of the most expensive on the market. And quite honestly, if I pay 80% more than what I could get with a competitor’s computer, I would like the software to improve the experience rather than hinder it. An Estimate is entirely appropriate to base judgments upon since not everyone sits at home all afternoon streaming iTunes Radio or Netflix to see how truly long it takes to drain a battery. Estimates are made to be practical for a reason.

No need for negative junk. Take that somewhere else.

Ah....so your point is that if you have an estimated battery life and then, prior to that expiring, you use a lot more apps etc - you're going to achieve less life than originally estimated - well thanks for that.

Of course, that's why its important to have the same usage when getting the estimates.

As a matter of fact, the Macbook was being used in a similar/same way when getting the readings - and therefore are comparable.

But thanks for taking the time to respond - I'm sure I will find your post useful for future reference..........

By the way, I guess the major problem is something to do with the new Safari. Thinking that Safari's version is 8.0, I always have doubts with the .0s. If the battery update was an issue regarding the system, I am pretty sure that Apple would have fixed the battery issue on the new 10.10.1 update. Otherwise I see no point on neglecting the issue till this moment, since there are myriads of compalints with the drain. Hope we will get our fix soon.

P.S. About two weeks ago, I went to a Apple reseller to check if a same model of my MBP has the same battery drain. It was about 4;45 with a 100% battery. It is a pity that they are selling these products in that condition.

"P.S. About two weeks ago, I went to a Apple reseller to check if a same model of my MBP has the same battery drain. It was about 4;45 with a 100% battery. It is a pity that they are selling these products in that condition."

Interesting, it confirms 1 more time that this is not an HW issue or a SW issue related to specific software installed by the customer.

msenard wrote:

"P.S. About two weeks ago, I went to a Apple reseller to check if a same model of my MBP has the same battery drain. It was about 4;45 with a 100% battery. It is a pity that they are selling these products in that condition."

Interesting, it confirms 1 more time that this is not an HW issue or a SW issue related to specific software installed by the customer.

Interesting, If it's not a hardware issue, and it's not a software issue what is it, a planetary conjunction issue maybe?

Hi there.

I'm having issues again and again after i updated to Yosemite, my battery last only 7 to 8 hours when fully charged!! what the **** is going on please ?

I mean we've all bought pretty expensive macbook, i don't want to have to use my laptop with only 25% of brightness or without icloud, i want to use my macbook normally.

I bought it like 2 months ago.

Please if you've an answer let me know. I tried resetting SMC DRAM and all the stuff i found on this topic.

Thanks in advance really.

See down there for my ETRECHECK report

EtreCheck version : 2.0.11 (98)

Rapport créé le 19 novembre 2014 13:43:03 UTC+1

Informations matérielles : ℹ️

Le MacBook Pro (Retina, 13 pouces, mi-2014) (Verifié)

MacBook Pro - modèle : MacBookPro11,1

1 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU : 2-core

8 GB RAM Pas extensible

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Bon - Handoff/Airdrop2 disponible

Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

Informations vidéo : ℹ️

Intel Iris -

Color LCD spdisplays_2560x1600Retina

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OK i tried updating to the new version that released, but nothing! Still the same. I also tried resetting the SMC and PRAM. Again nothing new, i still have a macbook thats draining its battery when running Yosemite and also getting ridiculously hot. Again i had none of these issues prior to updating to Yosemite.

Was really hoping the new update from apple would address these problems that we are all having. However, as it was not corrected it seems to me that Apple may not even be aware of these issues?! Maybe the people having the same problem are not making enough noise, or are making it in the wrong area!

Has anyone taken there macbook back to apple store to see what they say? I think we need to make them clearly aware of these issues that most people are having, otherwise the wait for a fix could take forever!!

... you can get via appstore. Be sure you have a backup from your persona data and a list of apps you installed as add-on.

Once downloaded search the web for "install mavericks from scratch" ...

... you can make a bootable USB-drive (min 8GB) and install Mavericks

... regarding Yosemtie:

for some people it seems to run fine - no battery issues. Others do have huge impact in battery drain.

sure everybody can post whatever he/she want to, but for now the only 2 options are:

a) live with (great) Yosemite and the battery issue or

b) downgrade to Mavericks and wait for a real fix/update ...