Battery cycle counted 147 for macbook pro retina 13 mid 2014, but runtime is 4-5 hour with web browsing, I checked tasks and reduces screen, nothing helped.
We haven't apple store in our region, so try to help please.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), Mid 2014
Hi dtsaturyan,
So glad you stopped by the Apple Support Communities today! It appears that you are having issues with the battery not lasting nearly as long as you expect it to. I have a MacBook Pro as well and I depend on it having good battery life as well. I'll be happy to assist you with this.
About Mac notebook batteries, has a broad range of information and troubleshooting about the batteries. I'd recommend that you check to make sure you check out the section called "Optimizing battery life" this will give step by step directions to help ensure the best set up for your battery health. Also, run hardware tests Using Apple Diagnostics.
OS X El Capitan: Manage your portable computer’s battery, this support article goes over additional information about your computer's power adapter and monitoring your battery.
Cheers!
Thanks, But only thing I haven't tried is calibrating my battery, should I do it ?
Thanks for trying those steps, dtsaturyan.
Since your Mac has a built-in battery, you don’t need to calibrate the battery. I would Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac, if you haven't already.
I suggest making a Time Machine backup and then fulling charging your battery. Then boot the Mac into safe mode and test to see if your battery runtime has improved any.
Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
Try safe mode if your Mac doesn‘t finish starting up
If there is no difference in battery performance, please test in another user account.
How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac
Have a great day!
Low Battery runtime Macbook Pro retina
