2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

So things getting more weird. This timer has really gone wild, but im satisfied about battery life with 100% satisfaction 🙂
Its already the end of the day in my region, i've done all my work today and i've been using it the whole time with medium load (such as Safari 4-5-6-7 tabs (5 mostly), whole time using xCode, a lot of Pages, and i even played a game Human Resource Machine for ~20 minutes and its using dGPU, and just a little bit of Spark, the whole time brightness was set to 75% aka 12 clicks from 0) for about 4-5 hours with 2-3 times of 15 mins sleeping. So look at the screenshot

I dont know why there is 20:31 of use but i do really like that with 56% of charge i have 7 hours estimated time. I think this is really good result

I can only say - keep using it. Im using it since November 24, when i bought it, first thing i've done was clean install of Sierra.

Yes, indeed these are some good results. I dont know why mine is still crazy

Just relax and use it without any doubt. Just fall in love with it and don't think about your battery time so much, you've got 7 hours of use, for 7 hours i hope you could find a place to charge your laptop. Just wait until the update. I'm sure, Apple does know about this problem, it's 100% software, next update should fix this madness.

I've just noticed that i don't see some apps i was using today in Activity monitor. Only wanted to see how much energy a game drains

Pselok wrote:

I dont know why there is 20:31 of use but i do really like that with 56% of charge i have 7 hours estimated time. I think this is really good result

Because time of use is not what is being shown, time on is what is shown, and that includes time sleeping.

JohnZonie: I wanted to mention, in case you are still reading the thread, that I found a setting for Parallels which has substantially reduced its energy use when running my W7 VM when on battery. In the dialog below, the radio button:

(o) Start up and shut down manually

was originally checked. I've since changed it to the second option:

(o) Always ready in background...

The key point, from what I can tell is it also now "pauses when closed or not in use." What appears to be happening is that when I'm busy on the macOS side of the world for 5-10 minutes or more, it is pausing the VM--but in a way where it isn't visually noticeable--and when you cycle back to a window in the VM (I'm using coherence) it picks up without a beat. But the resulting power drain, average, is significantly better.

Thanks ACGarland. I'll giver it a go!

To JohnZonie - yes it makes a big difference for me. I can essentially leave parallels running when on battery and not really think much about the power draw beyond what I'm actually using. If I'm on the mac side, then parallels is behaving very well power-wise.

For example, I've been preparing a sermon this morning and have been on battery for 2.5 hours with W7 VM "running" the entire time--but really only using a windows-based bible study program periodically during that time. As you can see, energy use is looking pretty good. Most of the time has been spent in two editors (workflowy--a chrome-based outlining app and macvim) and a couple of other macOS-based bible study programs.

You can see that Parallels is pretty far down on the list of energy users for this scenario:

I have display brightness at 50% with keyboard backlight, bluetooth, and time machine backups all turned off.

Hey guys, I've bought the Acer H77HU with the USB 3.1 port paired with a 2016 15" MBP. Why is it that when i connect my MBP with a Usb-C cable it only charges with 1-2 Watts? I takes literally more than 10-15 minutes for it to charge 1%. Any ides?

Not all USBC cables arenoptimized for charging. Be sure to use the cable that came with the 2016 MacBook Pro.

I bought the Belkin one that Apple sells in their stores

Seems like there are quite a few anecdotal reports of poor battery prediction and fewer posts with hard data from actual full run-down times. So I thought I'd contribute this snapshot for any who may find it helpful. Have spent the past 8 hours continually using my MBP/15"/16GB/1TB unplugged at 50% display brightness, keyboard backlight, bluetooth, and time machine all disabled. The dgpu was off almost all the time (except occasional websites with a bit of video--and I made sure to close those tabs after accessing the content). Most of the time was spent studying information, both online and locally (digital library) as well as writing. Some of the studying was done using apps within W7 VM running under parallels the entire time. So no video streaming or continuous music--just a fairly representative full non-work day (no SW development, compilation, but ran a few python scripts from time-to-time).

The results: even though I was quite cognizant of energy use, I was unable to get to a full 10 hours. On the other hand, my use involved almost constant typing and user activity (not passive viewing) so the touch bar was lit the vast majority of the time--and as you can see I'm not far off the 10 hour mark (at 8 with a predicted hour left = 9).

Here's what the energy usage looks like after 8 hours in my particular scenario:

Thats a beautiful looking Energy Stack 🙂

All applications roughly averaging 0.55 but most never over 1 watt per hour.

Consider disabling dropbox.. I you a dollar you will see that extra hour... 😀

Thanks for the tip.

Another area for possible improvement: when a spending significant time editing a document on macOS while on battery, prefer Pages, where possible, over Word.