Yosemite Battery Drain

mzoltek.......

It is puzzling as to why you would continue to follow this discussion and post if you have resolved the issue on your machine!

That said, uour comments do not speak to the two most relevant aspects of this problem:

1.) Some of us are encountering the issues on brand new machines and Apple's own employees are completely unable to resolve it.

2.) Yosemite was released over 3 months ago; this is ample time to at least acknowledge the issue much less fix it.

The bottom line is that the fact you have been able to get your machine to function properly has absolutely no relevance on the significant number of us who are still having issues. As has been repeatedly stated on this discussion in the past, those of us who are having issues are sick of being attacked and criticized for simply stating that there is a problem. By all means you should follow through and stop reading this post, you comments have added no value to the discussion.

Well I do not agree with that. I do think it's a major problem. If you sell a $2,000+ machine that is supposed to give you 8-9 hour battery and instead you receive a machine with a faulty OS that only lasts 4 hours at the most - that should be considered a big problem by Apple. Why would I ever spend big money on an Apple laptop again if that's the quality I get? Sure it might not explode, but it's not acceptable standards.

2 replies.

1 Because if someone has the issue I have, I can help. The point I was trying to make again was that a lot of people have the expectation that since there is a post on their forums with 368 replies that apple should drop everything and fix it. I agree that it should not be an issue and should be fixed, but nobody I actually know has also had the same issue so it's not 99% of users experiencing the issue. I work in an IT department where issues come in and out all the time, and I deal with people saying "hey you said this takes one hour and we told you about it a week ago..." when in reality it takes day's or weeks to find that one hour to do what they ask.

To say "APPLE TOTALLY DROPPED THE BALL" is a little over the top, as this issue again is probably plaguing a small percentage of users.

2. "Well I do not agree with that. I do think it's a major problem. If you sell a $2,000+ machine that is supposed to give you 8-9 hour battery and instead you receive a machine with a faulty OS that only lasts 4 hours at the most - that should be considered a big problem by Apple." - Not everyone is experiencing this problem, again if EVERYONE buying a macbook pro had this issue, it would be a major problem. Many of the issues I looked up when I found this problem were fixed by the person reporting it so I would venture to say some of these are issues that could be fixed without blaming apple.

The main point is that a big problem for you, that is not a big problem for a majority of users is not a "Major Problem". I'm not saying that its acceptable, it's just people so quick to pounce and say "THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD!" is getting annoying.

bkolas wrote:

mzoltek.......

It is puzzling as to why you would continue to follow this discussion and post if you have resolved the issue on your machine!

That said, uour comments do not speak to the two most relevant aspects of this problem:

1.) Some of us are encountering the issues on brand new machines and Apple's own employees are completely unable to resolve it.

2.) Yosemite was released over 3 months ago; this is ample time to at least acknowledge the issue much less fix it.

The bottom line is that the fact you have been able to get your machine to function properly has absolutely no relevance on the significant number of us who are still having issues. As has been repeatedly stated on this discussion in the past, those of us who are having issues are sick of being attacked and criticized for simply stating that there is a problem. By all means you should follow through and stop reading this post, you comments have added no value to the discussion.

How arrogant,

What gives you the authority to tell others what and where they should post.

You do not speak for others and on a personal level you are rude.

Had the same issue with a brand new MBP Retina 15', mid 2014. Was trying to re-install Yosemite, but didn't work.

Yesterday i went to the local reseller, they said they never heard about Yosemite battery issue and reinstall it once again to confirm. Came back home, fully charged and after 3 hours battery was empty.

Today i went there again and asked for downgrade to Mavericks. Everything is solved now, new battery - 10 hours with MAMP/other soft running.

Actually i don't even want to upgrade again, Mavericks is at least stable.

Really?

I read your post, it was rude.

And (as you seem willing just to gloss over it) the fact that millions of ordinary users do not have this issue indicates that the your problem is not systemic but individual. That is why it IS relevant, regardless of your opinion.

I never criticized anyone having the problem. I simply made a point that if "hundreds" of mac owners are having a problem to sit around and trash the company, call it a "HUGE PROBLEM" and say that they are dropping the ball here is a bit silly.

It's obviously an isolated issue, and is not something widespread like the ios 8 issue for example. I joined this post to help others fix the problem I had, and I spend more time reading people complain, and demand action than anything else.

I am now unsubscribing...

Mzoltek, no need to get overexcited here, really. No-one in this thread "trashed the company" or whatever...

There is a problem with Yosemite on portable Macs, no matter the line - be it an Air or a Pro - or generation. That's a fact.

I am also experiencing underwhelming battery life under Yosemite on a brand new vanilla 2014 MacBook Pro 13in Retina straight out of the box. The advertised battery life is 9 hrs, and I'm getting something like 4 hrs.

Downgrading the machine to Mavericks makes it work like it should, giving me the battery life as advertised, so it's clearly a software issue. But OTOH I bought this particular Mac for the new features in Yosemite, so I'm kinda stuck.

Anyway, OS X Mail app has always had it's share of problems and I really advise you choose something else, but it's not the main culprit here. It does seem to freeze sometimes maxing out the CPU on OS X 10.10.1, but disabling it doesn't fix the problem in the long run.

Mind you, I'm an IT tech, I've done my deal of testing on this particular machine, I generally know what I'm doing and I can really see the difference between a bad behaving app and a bad behaving OS. In this case it's the second case.

Mzoltek, apparently it is a "huge problem" that affects many portable Macs, regardless of their age and type. It's cool that it didn't affect you, but it clearly affects others, so - as I've been following this thread for quite some time now - I'm glad that you've unsubscribed from it.

Maciej Tarmas wrote:

Mzoltek, no need to get overexcited here, really. No-one in this thread "trashed the company" or whatever...

There is a problem with Yosemite on portable Macs, no matter the line - be it an Air or a Pro - or generation. That's a fact.

No, it's an opinion, facts are what you would provide in support of an opinion.

OK, so my OPINION is that my brand new vanilla MacBook Pro with preinstalled Yosemite is running for 4 hours instead of the advertised 9 hours.

My OPINION is that after I've downgraded OS X to Maverics on this particular machine, I am very able to use it for 8-9 hours straight.

Then I've done a clean install of Yosemite on this Mac again and my battery life degraded by a half, but yeah, it's just my OPINION.

Sigh...

Maciej, I have the exact same OPINIONS about my brand new 2014 Macbook. The battery life is fine using Mavericks...and is cut in half when upgrading to Yosemite. Seems like there is a LOT of people here with the exact same problems.

... not sure why there are still people denying a battery drain problem in Yosemite! so that reply is pointing to people who do not have

the OPINION that there is something wrong with battery life in Yosemite!

Ok - some do not have that issue, but in the meantime there are lots of people having that issue!

Believe it or not: My MBP is a working tool, use it daily - and from time to time I have to work running on battery!

That's fine with Mavericks - but it is not with Yosemite! I do not want to sing the same song 2nd and 3rd time (same HW, same apps, etc.)

Like a lot of the people posting here I started following because of a significant battery problem I began having with my machine. One thing I did trying to fix the issue through the techs at the store though is that Apple does not "officially" track these discussion boards and no Apple employee will ever post to them. They actually have a completely separate tracking system. One has to assume they that when an issue reaches critical mass it would likely pop up on their radar. That said I would encourage anyone who is having an issue to make an appointment at their local Genius bar and take their machine in. You might get lucky and the tech will be able to troubleshoot your problem. If they can not though they will be able to make an "official" entry which will help to elevate this issue.

Although I still need to monitor the effect on the long terms, I've noticed no improvement of any sorts during my morning usage today... Apple estimates is 4:30 hours left and I lost 10% over a period of 20 min... I've even reseted PRAM and SMC and waited for a full charge... I'm loosing hope drastically... 😟

No worries 🙂.

Actually not this time: I did a clean install twice with 10.10 and once with 10.10.1 (the one I have had until earlier today). I was really fine for the first three weeks after my clean install of 10.10.1 and then the issue showed up again... A real mystery! Anyway this time I just upgraded to 10.10.2 and I have yet to notice any improvement.