2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

After suggestions, last night i ran the battery to 0% which caused the Macbook to turn off by itself. I then charged it over night, reset the SMC this morning and it seems a lot better now. Here's what the results are up until now.

12:25, 100%, 8:32 remaining, safari

13:28, 92%, 7:03 remaining, safari, keynote

14:25, 82%, 8:07 remaining, safari, spotify, keynote

After a clean install I got a battery life of 13'44'' (won't be really reliable either, I guess). Left the computer running, but not using it, and it lasted: after a little more than 2 hours it stil was more then 10'00''. When I started to import files, Spotlight started running and the estimate went down fast. Now waiting for that to finish, then I'll try a new run with the battery fully charged. But for this moment, yeah, a clean install seems to help. But why the heck does Apple offer the options of Migration Assistent en Time Machine restore if it can have such a disastrous effects? And why do the tell you only after you've already done it? And why call me, more or less, an idiot if I've fatefully used one of those options offered? Have been busy with this machine for more than three days, just to get it running. Wish I could bill all those hours. Would have given me a real nice discount on this extremely expensive computer.

I have similar battery problems on my new MacBookPro 15" as well as occasional freezing mentioned by other users. I tested my battery twice using nothing but email and occasional links to the web. Within 2 hours it was below 10%. I went to my local Apple Store and they arranged for a replacement. However, three weeks later I have not received the replacement. In fact, I was caught in a back and forth related to who was responsible for the replacement between the store and Apple support managers. Now I am still waiting for the store to contact me about the replacement.

Last update. Waited after the clean install untill everything was indexed. Restarted, uplugged, and got an estimate for 2'17" on a full charge. This time there was no bonus. It killed itself after exactly 2'17". So f**k that arrogant helpdesk guy with his talks about it only being the time estimate and nothing else. Also, the machine got so heated up, it really hurt when working on it in my lap, only doing some light webbrowsing. But ofcourse, it's a notebook: you can take notes with it, but never in your lap! I hope everyone considering a MBp or MBa realises this. Don't buy Apple. Mine is being returned. I'm fed up with this.

Sounds like a different issue, it shouldn't get hot – mine hasn't got very hot doing anything, even relatively heavy stuff. A replacement would probably fix it, and when I've taken a laptop back within 30 days of purchase to an Apple store they just replaced it, no questions asked. Admittedly that was in 2007 UK.

I believe you should wait a bit more. Keep using it. I've used mine for a week and it started working normally only yesterday. Is this your first machine? If so, replace it and see if the second one does not work how it is supposed to. This is my second one, I replaced the first one because it was freezing and poor battery life. When i received the replacement the battery life was still poor but thank god there were no freezing. Thus, I continued using it thinking it was a software problem. I tried various solutions including Re-Installing Sierra but it did not work. As I wrote above, what seemed to work is letting the battery drain to 0% and die, and then charge it fully. This is what I did and then reset the SMC and bam it's a solid machine. I've been using it for the whole day today and I'm still at 42% battery life. I monitor the results every 1 hour. Here, take a look.

Edit : This usage is with 50% brightness, 30% keyboard backlit brightness and Wifi, while having Youtube and Facebook active in safari plus another 1-2 tabs.

12:25, 100%, 8:32 remaining, safari

13:28, 92%, 7:03 remaining, safari, keynote

14:25, 82%, 8:07 remaining, safari, spotify, keynote

15:26, 71%, 6:31 remaining, safari, spotify

16:25, 66%, 5:17 remaining, safari, spotify (20 mins sleep)

17:25, 52%, 4:04 remaining, safari

17:35, 50%, 4:09 remaining, sleep

19:28, 49%, 4:15 remaining, safari

20:00, 42%, 3:24 remaining, safari

Agreed,

If your computer is getting that hot, something is running that is eating up an awful lot of wattage per hour.

Not taking anything away from your anger, you have a right to be upset.... And the CSR you spoke with probably may or may not have handled the call correctly, I am only guessing, I was not there.

This seemingly simple enough software bug should be addressed with an update that should be out soon.

If you look at your activity monitor on the Energy tab you can isolate which applications are hammering away at the battery.

Well, tried all that more than once. Problems only seem to get worse. I'm done with it. I have work to do. This hast cost me about three days up untill now. I'm not going to spend another week waiting and hoping that maybe a new one will perform better/will deliver as promised. .

Seems like it could be a hardware problem if you have re-installed macOS.

It's unfortunate you've had a bad experience. Apple should really handle support claims better, especially with such expensive products just after release, they should be maintaining a stock of replacement hardware ready to ship out as problems like these are inevitable. It's not like it would really cost them anything, and they might save themselves some customers. I agree with Leo below, it's a nice machine, but let down by customer support in some instances.

I really understand your frustration, but give it one more shot with a replacement. It's a really nice machine. I too had these feelings at first, as I'm a student and saved up for some time to afford this laptop. After it 'stabilised' and works as it should I'm really happy.

There a no apps eating up the battery, or at least the activity monitor isn't seeing anything. Been watching that for some 72 hours now. Only after a reinstall the indexing costs a lot of energy. After that nothing. When it was so hot the beginning of this evening there was no activity to speak of, according to the ctivity monitor.

It may be a hardware problem, like the freezing with my first machine. Just replace it

You could try escalating your support issue. If you get high enough they will ship you out a replacement laptop before sending your old one back, and if you think it is dangerously hot (could be a battery issue) they might do it very quickly.

Screenshot your energy usage stack

Have it open for four minutes now. Getting hot again. This is the energy usage.