macbook pro 2016 with touchbar battery issue

Same here, on a 13" Touch Bar MacBook Pro, System Information reckons I have 4326mAh as my full capacity (only 1014 more than my Nexus 6P...) to give about 5 hours. This is a replacement unit as I thought my first one might be faulty, but actually the battery is just terrible and 10 hours is simply a lie.

I am also victim of the dreaded battery drain on the new MBP with touch bar. I'm lucky if I get 4 hours on my 13" fully specced machine. I have ordered a replacement from apple which arrives next week.

Whilst waiting for the new one to arrive I have also been experiencing problems with my Time Machine backups failing. Whilst troubleshooting this with Apple over the phone, we discovered that my HDD is showing it's SMART Status as "Not Supported". This is obviously a fault. The support engineer susects that this is very likely the cause of the battery problems I'm experiecning as well. Might be worth checking if you are seeing a similar problem with your HDD (can be viewed in Disk Utility when focussing on the physical drive). I hope my replacement does not have this same issue!

My battery life is just as bad. I average around 4 hours. I even tested 50% brightness and just web browsing and it didn't change. If I use Lightroom or Photoshop it goes down to sround 3 hours. That's what my 4 year old rMBP was getting. I think the video card is a major contributor as I also have issues with it pixelating parts of screen at times and have also had a hard time coming out of sleep mode if I'm connected to an external monitor.

Today I've returned my 13" MacBook Pro Touch Bar. Hope the new one will have better battery time ...

Please update us about your replacement computer... I'm thinking about having mine exchanged too.

Not that there seems to be any resolution to this but adding to the thread in the hope that it helps the issue get acknowledge by Apple. I have the same issue on MacBook Pro with Touchbar 13". Maximum battery life is 5 hours even before I open any apps. Have never got close to it showing ten hours, even with all apps closed and immediately after removing the power cable. Closest has been 8 hrs but this dropped to 4 hours within 20 minutes of normal usage (Safari browsing with e-mail app running). Have been on to multiple agents at Apple who suggested PRAM and SMC resets (which did not help).

Worked all day with powered on. This evening worked without power only on battery on my max out new MacBook Pro 15 - just did internet browsing with chrome and outlook email - battery depleted after only 3h 1/2 - thinking of returning it and going back to my old and heavy 17" 2011

I have a related question for everyone. I am also getting terrible battery life. My battery seems to die after about 5 1/2 hours of general surfing. That said though, in looking at the Activity Monitor -> Energy -> Graphic Card I see that my computer claims that it is never switching to the built-in graphic card it is always using "High Perf." even though I have no apps running that require that.

Does anyone else have this too, or do you know how I can force it to use the built-in card so that I can see if there is a difference?

Are you running Sierra? I presume so since your machine is recent. It has devastated the battery life of my old Macbook Pro. I will never again install an Apple "system upgrade" until at least 6 months have elapsed following its launch and the forums say it's safe to do so.

So I have the TMBp 15" fully built out edition.

Initially I used migration wizard to move data from my old mac book air to this new TMbp. I would get crappy battery results. Roughly 3-6 hours. That was not acceptable for me. I started researching and I noted that people that setup their laptop brand new (those that did not migrate any data over) had the best battery life results. I saw one guy posting screenshots of 14.5 hours while he was off the charger for 1 hour.

The intent for me was to wipe it clean and start with a fresh sierra install, So I restarted hit Command R and held it, then booted into recovery mode. Selected reinstall sierra. I let it run and this morning I have been showing 17 hours on 100 percent charge. The result of this above procedure was no loss in any personal data and application were still installed. I didn't actually delete the partition using disk utility. So effectively OS X just reinstalled over itself.

I figured that this may be a false positive, but after one hours of usage and doing light browsing with sierra including writing this response, after two hours it corrected itself to 13.5 hours, and in some cases went back up to 14 hours 20 minutes.

Set applications that constantly hammer away at the battery to not run on startup (dropbox, etc)

And keep an eye out on the energy tab in activity monitor for applications that "Require High Performance GPU"

I am currently doing real world testing to see just how long the battery will last.

But this is worth a shot.

I'm also having this problem. Just got out of a 2 hour meeting (the first time my new MacBook Pro has been off the charger since I got it) and it was showing as having only 44 minutes remaining :-(. I was driving an external monitor and also was connected to ethernet via a dongle. I haven't read any reports yet from from people who returned their machines - do the replacement machines still have the same issue?

reinstall osx like I mentioned. this seems to be software related. I am 4 hours in use and I am still at 80 percent.

I just followed your steps and there was only a minor change. It is showing approximately 1 hour more than it normally does. I have 15" tMBP with 460 graphics. I was on battery yesterday and was fully depleted in less than 3 hours. I also noticed two days ago that my battery was fully charged, I put it in my bag, and a few hours later took it out to work on it and it was already down to 93%. There is possibly a sleep issue. I've also had a few issue waking it up since I've had it, primarily if I am plugged into power and connected to an external display. I'm not too sure about this AMD video card. So far, I like the Nvidia one on my last rMBP much better.

from your graph looks like there are things using a lot of energy.

Also giving the system some time to calibrate it may go up. Specifically what I did in my case was let it sit on the power cable for a few hours, with the the energy saving settings for power adapter set to "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically", hard disk sleep off, wake for wifi on, and enable power nap. I believe a few hours may have been what was needed with the system powered on to fully index files and do background processes.

Then I put the laptop to sleep for an hour on power cable. After I opened it up it had 17 hours remaining, and has been holding steady since.

What does your energy app stack look like? Post a screenshot of that.

In Preferences > Energy Saver look if "automatic graphic switching" is checked.