Yosemite Battery Drain

hum... I had never thought about Maill app pushing all the time.. I'll check it when I come home tonight. If the Mail is the problem, we could just delete it to see the effects and put it back after?

Thiago - you do not even need to go that far. If you are running "Activity Monitor" it is easy to see how just turning the Mail app on and off cause the CPU to spike repeatedly. While it does not appear that the Mail app is necessarily the entire problem it is clearly a large part of it.

Agreed, I just force quit the app and yesterday my battery was back to functioning as normal. In about an hour of use I used less than 10% and my battery remaining stayed around 7:30. Seems like for me it's only a mail app issue, I'll just keep it closed until I feel like digging into it more.

I missed my mail app, so I did some digging. I disabled "Automatically download attachments" for all accounts, quit and reopened and my mail app is no longer killing my battery. Again not perfect, but better than just not using the app

Same situation here. Battery was working fine, then I updated to OSX Yosemite and immediately afterwards I noticed the battery running down abnormally fast, eventually I found out about the "service battery" problem. Early 2011 Macbook Pro 15", 356 battery cycles...

I agree, I don't think it's the whole problem but it's interesting. I don't use Mail at all but still get a lot of drain. I've installed Yosemite plenty of times and still have the same problem. I've even kept everything clean, such as only Apple software, even just what's installed at setup and it still goes through battery life like crazy.

I somehow did not think about Mail being the possible culprit but I am definitely seeing a better battery live without it. When running HD video through VLC and Chrome I am getting at least 25% better battery life than when running Mail and Chrome.

The problem is, I don't see the Mail app running in background. Actually I don't even use it 😟 And I see anything wrong either on Activity Monitor.

I have only the native apps installed and a couple Games but I don't see them there either.

It should be solved already because it's wasting my battery cycles.

Ok I found a way to check for battery time available:

Use the MiniBatteryLogger app (available on macupdate)

It adds a battery time remaining icon in the MenuBar, which can be changed (by clicking on it) to a "time since charge" counter.

When charged, simply click on "reset the counter", and use your macbook normally.

With this tool, I benchmarked 5:40 on yosemite on a brand new rMbp15, and approximately the same with mavericks sadly...

(even if the osx battery meter was showing 11h battery with full battery charged on mavericks)

So it may be simply related to less quality batteries than before (was not even getting that with my late 2011 mbp15).

I'm returning mine.

the thing is still that there is something wrong in YOSEMITE - wrong in term of battery up-time

and the really bad thing is, that there is no official statement from Apple ...

it is no secret and it could not be something stupid looking at all the posts pointing to the battery drain issue.

why Apple won't offer any patch here - or at least give the information that somebody is working on that problem?

just talking from my personal point of view:

- (daily) working on an MBP Retina 2013 and with Mavericks my battery time was fine.

- running with Yosemite my battery time is nearly horrible (did an upgrade from Mavericks, tried a Yosemite installation from scratch as well - same issue)

- went back to Mavericks - battery is working again as expected for an MBP

need to add: I've used 100% same programs/apps in Mavericks than in Yosemite - only difference: program/app version numbers are different because

of Yosemite comes with newer programs (e.g. mail, etc.)

Sadly this has become the direction that all of Apple's software has increasingly taken over the last couple of years. This past fall an independent study even documented that iOS 8 crashed 78% more than iOS 7. For marketing reasons Apple appears to be pushing to release updated software before it is ready. Problems have become so evident that the majority of independent journalist now advise waiting to apply any of their upgrades for several months until the bugs have begun to be worked out. What is inexcusable though is the company's complete unwillingness to so much as recognize the problems. The corrections that come with each release show that they know there is an issue. Instead of working with the customers though they leave us to dig through forums to find our own fix while also being berated by folks who view any criticism of the Apple products as a personal attack. In my own case I made the mistake of upgrading my 1 year old MacBook Air to Yosemite while traveling abroad. Immediately after the upgrade my battery life was cut to under 2 hours. There are only a handful of software programs on the machine and they have all come through the app store. There is also not a single Google product installed. Over the last 3 months I have visited Apple stores in 3 separate countries (including the US) spoken to over a dozen personal, applied every update Apple has provided and tried every fix suggested on these forums. In the end the employees at each and every store have ultimately conceded that there is indeed a problem and they do not know how to fix it. At this point the only hope is that there is enough noise generated that Apple will finally be forced to deal with the issue. If you are having this issue in any way, shape or form please add your support to this discussion board! The more people who do the greater liklihood things will finally get better.

Hello Csound1,

here are my Etrecheck results - I hope this makes sense to you and the battery issue can be eliminated or at least improved.

I am now down from 99% to 36% and working on the laptop for about 2.5 hours. Thank you very much!

Problem description:

Battery is draining extremely fast and last max of 3-4 hours after a clean install of Yosemite on a new SDD, data was restored from Time Machine to the new Yosemite.

EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)

Report generated 11 Jan 2015 13:16:08 CET

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Jan 11, 2015, 12:54:08 PM Self test - passed

Hello,

is there anyone who updated to the latest beta of Yosemite? I wonder how is the battery life, is there any improvements. Currently I reverted back to Mavericks and I am waiting for a good update which solves the notorious battery drain to upgrade again.

APPLE EMPLOYEES FINAL ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROBLEM!!!

I posted once before on this discussion as I had a MacBook Air 11" where battery life dramatically diminished after upgrading to Yosemite. Unfortunately the machine was lost while traveling and had to be replaced. Yesterday I bought a brand new MacBook Air 13" and spoke with 4 different sales associates about the battery issues I had with my previous machine and Yosemite. I was assured that this would not be the case with the new machine as it was new equipment with a "clean" install.

Unfortunately, they were 100% wrong. Immediately after setting up my new machine I started to see the battery rapidly drain. I went back to the store today and just spent 2 hours with a Genius bar employee who finally conceded that there was clearly a bug in Yosemite. As reported in my previous post it appears that the main problem is with Mail getting hung up running the CPU at over 300%; but he could not confirm this was completely responsible. In the end I was told that there was absolutely nothing that could be done but for me to wait until Apple releases a update to fix the problem.

Enough has been said about how poorly Apple has handled this all so I am not going to delve into that again. I just do no want others to waste time and effort as I did searching for a solution to a problem that can not be fixed. The bottom line is there a problem with the code and Apple is the only one who can do anything about it.

I'm finished with reading about how "Apple should be addressing this immediately!".

Have you ever worked in an IT industry? many things that take 5-10 minutes take days/weeks to even get to to fix. My issue for one I was able to diagnose and fix, and I have been on Yosemite for quite some and the mail app was causing the issue. If laptops were igniting into flames and burning down houses that would be something I think that would fall into "THEY NEED TO ADDRESS THIS NOW"... This... not so much, I'm sure they will get to it.