2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

Sleeping is on (it is using power), so the time you stated is accurate, including the extra 2.5 hours.

I just returned my MacBook Pro to the Braehead Apple Store in Glasgow today (09 Dec-2016) after 10 days. I paid £2,900 for it and was getting 3 hours battery life just using Safari!

I have been using Apple products for 5 years now. Really surprised and disappointed.

I think if you waited a little longer the battery would have fixed itself.

I had a problem at the start too and have had mine for a little over two weeks now with 11 battery cycles and i am getting about an hour per 10% which is about the 10 hour they said.

I am surfing Safari, steaming youtube, iMessage, checking emails along with some blogs i follow. I also have open activity monitor and coconut battery app.

Pselok,

That sounds about right. Apple tested with light internet browsing.. with the 27% in two hours you'll get around 7 to 8 hours which isn't bad although not 100%

Apple says UP to 10 hours.

The time of use from wall and time of use from battery is the different things. I start using it from battery since i opened it and get the charger off. In my case the Activity Monitor shows that i was using it from battery for 4:56 when the charger was on and from this point even after getting off the charger it was still count hours like im using it from battery all night, but again, it was in sleep mode and connected to charger

Can you actually test it on battery, charge it up then use it till it runs down, no charger and no sleeping. Time how long it is until it runs down and tell us that. Normal use is preferable.

So guys if i were to try and re install sierra as a try to fix the problem would it wipe all my data? Command+R on startup and the "Reistall Sierral"

No, it should only reinstall the OS, but as problems rarely notify you in advance you should have a backup at all times.

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No it wont.

As long as you don't hard reset the whole computer

no it wouldn't unless you deleted the mac partition using disk utility.

Reposting my results since Apple apparently removed my old post:

real world testing results after a fulls day use. Light to moderate browsing, as well as charging my iPhone 7 plus (top up from 78% to 98%)

Estimate:

Actual:

This was accomplished by reinstalling OS X sierra 10.12.1 (using Command+ R at startup)

While it was installing, I had it on the charger. I also took it off of the charger after install for an hour and put it to sleep. Lastly, I turned off Time Machine, and bluetooth. Brightness was one tick less than 50% during all day test.

T_glick wrote:

No it wont.

As long as you don't hard reset the whole computer

Why not explain what a hard reset is

I agree with T_glick.

I've had my 15" since late November. Initially I couldn't make any sense of the battery estimates. But over the last few days they seem to be settling down.

I have not done any kind of re-install or reset. Just the original machine install, out of the box, loaded my apps and data.

I'd say that I'm getting mostly consistent estimates now, with usage of no more than (and sometimes less than) 10% per hour, which gives me at least 10 hours endurance. I've run the machine down and it's a real 10 hours, thereabouts.

I'm almost getting the same endurance with a VM running Windows along side normal Mac operations. If it had done that on day one I'd have been very happy.

It's not 100% consistent, but it looks like it's getting better. Maybe that's pure luck. Maybe it will all go south again. I'd say there is still something strange with the estimates, though. Recently I did get a very low estimate of 2 hours (just after a full charge) but 6 hours later it still said 2 hours.

Is it that this whole thing is just down to a really sloppy estimating algorithm that takes too long to get a grip on the battery performance, giving out incorrect and worrying estimates, before maybe settling down?

I'm not totally convinced of this, but starting to lean this way....

Shortly after installation (for at least the first few hours) there will be a sizable power drain while the Mac indexes its disks. This is expected and entirely normal, trying to assess battery life until this is complete is a waste of time as the estimates will be wrong.

Setting it back to factory settings.. But I'm sure you know this.. Just trolling as usual Csound1

Can't you ever be polite as you go through life.

And it has nothing whatsoever to do with "Setting it back to Factory settings" at all, Spotlight has to have an index of the drive content, this is when it is done.