2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

So my macbook pro 13in touchbar had a similar battery drain problem lasting anywhere from 3-4 hours. I called up apple care and they ran a diagnostic with no sign of damage or issues. He then guided me through going into recovery and reinstalling the OS, which does not delete any apps or data. Now I'm getting about 8-9 hours battery, real usage not just estimates. Also, I have not reset the SMC. The use case of my macbook involves the average student life, with it being on for about 1.5-4 hours per day involving web browsing on chrome and programming for arduino based projects. I usually keep mine at about 55-75% brightness with the backlight either off or at 1-2 bars. I thing I have noticed is that the brightness of the screen heavily affects the battery drain, most likely to it being a 500 nit display. Hope this helps.

At apple they reset my computer to factory settings and called it a Hard reset… just going based of what the genius told me man.

Setting your computer to factory settings is different than just reinstalling the iOS.

The initial drain is (usually) the indexing time to finish, it varies in length depending on drive content.

Reinstalling the OS is a soft reset. erasing the drive converts it to a hard reset.

NYMunky,

Was this consistent use for 15 hours or did you put it to sleep at any time?

Thanks!

Correct.

Which is exactly what i said after you asked for me to explain myself.. which i did

A told the guy not to do a hard reset because it would erase the drive.

I just did a sierra re install. Power usage using the battery health up is way decreased now from 13-15 Watts to 8.3. Without having any app open of course. I have 6 Hours remaining. Apps using significant energy shows spotlight. This is the file system indexing right?

As this is a public forum all can answer questions, which is exactly what I did, do you have a problem with my answer perchance.

Correct.

Not at all.

I just don't get what you are trying to get at?

The guy asked if simply reinstalling the iOS would wipe his computer clean.

I said no unless you do a hard reset.

You asked for me to explain what a hard reset is.. which i did in saying setting your device to factory settings..

Then you tell me it has nothing to do with "setting it back to factory settings"…. then go on to say a soft reset is reinstalling iOS and a hard reset is setting back to factory settings...

which was stated before by me when you asked me to explain what a hard reset is...

I don't mind you post at all… I just really don't get what you are trying to get at… go back and reread.. it'll all make sense.

Actually it means to erase the drive,(aka clean install) nothing more. I have read your post and still have no idea what it means to return to "Factory Settings" but I assume that you do.

Try a hard reset… You will have to do every step you did when you first opened the box since it left the factory… factory settings … like a new computer…. as if the settings are what the factory set them to…but you know this already..

"A hard reset, also known as a factory reset or master reset, is the restoration of a device to the state it was in when it left the factory. All settings, applications and data added by the user are removed."

It really doesn't get more clear than this..

So these are the results after the 'soft reset'. I think it's actually better but we'll have to wait and see real world results.

Does anyone have such issues with 13" macbook pro without touchbar?

I also see that my new 13" macbook has 4875mAh (after 8 cycles) battery capacity, but my previous 13" macbook (2015) has ~6500mAh... is this OK?

Yes, they reduced capa