2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

I tried resetting everything suggested. Thought it was fixed a few times. Decided to do a fresh install by formatting the disc and re-installing Sierra. Now everything seems fine. As you can see. I urge everyone with problems to try this before returning. It did take a long time to download though. It said 6 minutes but took a lot longer.

Don't quite believe the time remains but defiantly loads better. Down to 95% since I took the screenshot earlier. now at 57 mins on battery and 10:52 left. Was not getting no where near this before. Give it a go!

Good advice, faythebest. The 1'51 grew to a little more then 5 hrs. Fully discharged it untill automatic shutdown. Recharged. Then I got 8'11, and it even got better, after a few minutes it gave 9'41. Now it jumps between 8'21 en 9'21', in jumps of 10 minutes. But it stays more then 8 hrs, even now that the charge is down to 94%. Other strange thing is there is significant difference of some 5% between the charge percentage the MBP gives and what CoconutBattery gives.

Danny, i'm really thinking about doing this as a last result. I reset the SMC many times with no success. I also Re-Installed Sierra without formatting the disc, again no success. My Macbook now tops around 5-6 hours with very light use, like Safari and Spotify. Weird thing is that compared to other users my Safari eats up a lot of energy, something like 20-25.

It all depends on what you are doing with Safari. Using safari itself can be both heavy use and light use.

You can open ten, twenty tabs in safari, watch lots of videos using flash, and have lots of plugins.

You can also just open one tap and reading text only page.

That's cool. I am gonna try Coconut baterry and see the results.

DannyC79...have you continued to see good results with your battery life?

I have 2 more questions:

1. How exactly did you go about reformatting your hard drive?

2. What method did you use to re-install your applications and data, etc? I assume that you didn't use the Setup Assistant (which is part of the process of setting up a new Mac where it asks you if you want to copy data from a backup or a Mac) but did you use the Migration Assistant (in the Utilities folder)? Or did you not have old data and settings and applications that you needed to copy to your new MacBook Pro?

Thanks!

Richard

Avoid using Migration Assistant to copy system files from a previous computer. There seems to be a pattern in reports here that people who do this have poor battery life.

It should be safe to use Migration Assistant to migrate a user's files across. (You can pick what you want migrated in the App.). Just avoid migrating everything, or selecting the System area as one of the things to migrate.

I am still on my first charge since doing it but so far OK. I will let you know the final result as soon as. I formatted the main hard drive partition as an extended journal, then used the internet recovery to install Sierra. I did not restore from a back up or use any migration. I have back up necessary files to a Nas drive, but did not have to much on my previous Mac. I then downloaded Pages, Garage band etc from the App Store. Currently showing 87% with 8 hours left with just over 1 and a half hours of use. Has come down slightly but it was over quoted at first. Confident I will get 9 hours plus.

Okay. Thanks Danny. Keep us in the loop.

I had the same problem. With nothing running I could not get more than 2.5 hours with a full charge. After trying everything n this forum, I have run the battery to zero charge a couple of times and now notice that my battery runs to about 5.5. hours. Hope that works on other computers?

For what it's worth, I had this problem too, only 3-4h battery life with only Safari open and no tabs open. Now it seems to have fixed itself, I've done nothing, yet I'm currently on 70% with 6h remaining. I think Apple will fix this and other problems in 10.12.2, I'm not even going to bother posting my other problems until it's released. With the rate of betas increasing it could be this week.

I had the same issues with the latest MBP13. I found that Time Machine, Chrome and Bluetooth would consume too much power. Also, indexing (Spotlight) takes some time (not to say days) and will drain the battery. I switched off these apps, moved from Chrome back to Safari and from automatic TM backups to manual backups.

Then re-installed Sierra without formatting disc. I think the latter did the trick.

I now get 8-10 hours with 100% charged (depending on usage, screen brightness, etc.).

Ended the day yesterday with more then 8 hrs to go, this morning it was down to just 1'28, after some time it started climbing slowly, but in total it came not anywhere near the 8+ hrs I had yesterday. Not happy. Called the helpdesk, and the guy came with some news (for what it's worth): Apple blames it on the time indication, which can't ever be acurate with these kind of machines & batteries, and is planning to rip the time-indication out, so only the percentage is given. Although there may be some reason in this, it sounds to me like 'kill the messenger'.

He sort of ordered to do a clean install of Sierra and threatened that it would cost me if I would return it for repair and they found out is was the software. Yeah right. Just spend 2.600 euro's on the most expensive computer ever for me, and Apple gets angry that I'm not satisfied and threatens me with extra costs. Customer satisfaction 2016.

And just so you know: my argument that the MBP gets so heated you can't keep it on you lap, is bull. 'Sir, it's not a laptop. It's a notebook. You are not supposed to work on it on your lap. Darn. Violating Apple's rules for som 12 years know and didn't even know it. I'm a moron. Thank you Apple, for sharing that with me.

Just so everyone knows: this is Apple Helpdesk in The Netherlands

Totally agree with your sentiment. When I posted a similar sentiment they deleted my post and said it was not relevant. I am seriously considering ditching Apple after 2 decades!

Well, beating you there with almost 3 decades. But getting more and more angry, just like you. They're using us early adopters as guinea pigs. A computer this expensive shouldn't be brought to market without every machine thoroughly tested. I want to work with it, not spending all these hours trying to get it to work properly.