2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

Interesting - so maybe they found a fix. I'm sticking with 10.12.1 having found a good battery life here - I'm done with beta's lol

I recieved my MacBook Pro 3 weeks ago and discovered that the photos App is not working and my battery lasts about 3-4 hours when on the internet. I won't even get into the battery when streaming video.

Some definate issues going on with MacBook and my confidence in Apples quality is going down hill.

Can anyone say what is yours Full Charge Capacity of the 15" with touch bar? Having the same battery troubles but after reducing brightness from 100% to 75% i have a 2 hours advantage. I jumped from 4-6 hrs to 7-8 with 75% brightness and light use such as safari with 2-3 tabs. Still far away from 10 hours of "heavy" apple using.

My Full Charge Capacity jumps from 6830 to 6880 is this normal? What is yours?

As faster our batteries are going down as more charging cycles we get (sorry for bad english). So btw i already do have Full Charge Capacity on 6907 mAh. I dont see this normal :/

I have the same situation with my brand new MacBook Pro 15" Touch bar. Battery life is about 3 hours of browsing and watching videos via Safari - nothing intensive, brightness not at 100%, etc.

I hope this can be resolved before the 14-day return period is up. As a long-time Apple user, I find this deeply troubling.

I hope so, now so sick with MBP 13" Touch Bar poor battery life

No, I am a macOS developer so I have access to beta software. I was having issues with 10.12.1 so I figured I didn't have much to lose and low and behold it seems they may have found a fix. My best guess is something to do with the Photos app trying to parse facial recognition data in the background and hanging for some reason. I noticed after the upgrade that Photos dumped its derived data cache and re-created it. My laptop ran with high CPU for about 40 minutes then everything spun down as normal and I am on track to get about 8-9 hours of battery life using 10-15 apps regularly at 75% brightness.

Furthermore I can confirm that the battery prediction data is wrong. It under-predicted my battery life by about 2 hours

I have the problem of poor battery life. I do not run Photos at all. I don't do anything more graphics-intensive than occasionally playing YouTube videos. Yet in a session where all I have done is email and web browsing my computer still thinks it has a battery life of about 3.5 hours. So the problem is not related just to graphics-intensive programs like Photos.

I have MacBook Pro 13" with touch bar and facing same issue. It is draining out in 3 hours.

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!

If you have one of the new 13" MBPs then you do not have a hard disk. You have solid state storage (a bit like a very small, fast and efficient Flash drive). SMART statistics are designed for diagnosing hard disk problems and are not supported by SSD storage systems. If is correct for you to see "not supported" and this is not a sign that anything is wrong.

LidoShuffling: Hope you are correct. Mine says S.M.A.R.T. not supported as well (2 TB SSD). Seems logical that this would not be supported on SSD although I suppose there could be bad memory slots even on an SSD that need to be skipped. Never checked on previous MacBook Pro (early 2012 with 750 MB SSD). My battery life on new 15" with TouchBar has slowly grown from less than 3 hours on a full charge to more than 8.5 hours just by using it for a couple of weeks. I'm hopeful this is fixing itself.

Believe me. Modern-day SSDs' method of storing data in "sectors" is far more complicated than the one SMART is designed to monitor. SMART does not understand the wear-levelling and block reallocation systems used by SSDs. Lack of SMART for your boot storage device is not a sign that anything is wrong with your computer. Don't worry about it.

Same issue here. MBP 13" with Touch Bar.

Now, running Safari with some apps in background (like Airmail, Slack, Whatsapp and Messages) I'm getting 5:10 hours with 96% and 75% brightness (as Apple tests). But it's very far from 10 hours!