2016 macbook pro 15" with touch bar poor battery life

Guys, what is it about forums/threads that turn certain people into petty, mean, condescending clowns? we're just trying to help each other figure out what's wrong with our devices, there's no competition here. Chill.

I don't see how guessing helps anyone when you can measure it and find the answer. But if you prefer guessing, carry on.

Couldn't agree more. We're all trying to figure out what is going on. We don't have access to circuit diagrams, firmware or other low level diagnostic tools. So with a problem like this I doubt we can ever really know for sure. It's all guess work. Sometimes it's more educated, other times its more anecdotal, but it's all useful and helpful. Even if this place just gives people somewhere to vent and see like minded people suffering with similar issues, that's still helpful to some folks.

Keep guessing, and keeping helping each other. Maybe someone will spot something through guesswork and we can all go home.

Early days, perhaps, but after installing 10.12.2 and 40 minutes into a battery discharge test from a full charge I am showing a remaining capacity of 98% and an estimated run time of over 12 hours.

I'm running general productivity apps on the Mac itself and Windows 10 in VMware which is itself running fairly hungry development tools (Visual Studio 2015).

Too early to call as fixed yet, but from my own experience, looking positive. Based on this I encourage everyone to get the update installed and run a discharge test, then reporting findings here.

By the way, the timer in 10.12.2 is not really disappeared, it still remains in Activity Monitor app. My estimated time for now is 15:41 with 100% and 0:06 minutes of use

macOS 10.12.2 testing: 1 and half hours on battery with a varying load and I'm now down to 88% with estimated 10 hours remaining. This looks better.

If I increase the load and wait a little I get an increased rate of battery reduction, but a sensible one, in line with the mAh and mA consumption figures shown in system information. Likewise I eventually get a reduced estimate of time remaining, and again it seems sensible.

The opposite is also true. Reduce the load down to simple browsing and mail and the rate of battery drain slows down by a sensible amount. Estimate of longevity eventually increases and again sensible and in line with mA consumption figure.

So far it's completely believable. Will continue to monitor.

Since installing 10.12.2 I have not seen any improvement in battery life. What I have experienced though is weird performance sometimes (Slow for no reason, freezing for some seconds) and the Dock is being unresponsive. You can have a look if you like at these videos and screenshots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io3kxAZLtX4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5_jV4RkVRs

I'm having the same problem and I'm on 10.12.2 - just out, today. I have the 15" MBP with TouchBar. Battery lasts 3 hours.

I used to get 4 -5 hours of battery. Now my MBP 13 is on its 12 battery cycle, I am getting 9 legit battery hours

just by upgrading to 10.12.2?

I haven't upgraded, still on 10.12.1. 11 tabs on Safari, doing Word documents, 5 PDF open, watching youtube, email... basically what I call a normal use. - 9 hours.

10.12.2 installed and ran the battery down to just under 20% remaining with browsing, videos etc. Achieved 9 hours straight on battery. So there was maybe enough to get to 11 hours on a full discharge - certainly the claimed 10.

Time remaining looked sensible all the way and the mA and mAh capacity figures matched to within a few percent of that according to my simplistic calculations.

Since 10.12.2 I've seen nothing to suggest that there is an issue remaining with battery estimate, but it's only been 1 day.

Same here. And it's getting very quiet here, so it looks like Apple has nailed it. Problem with me was the CPU-usage of the WindowServer, which was an incredible 130 percent constantly. It went down to some 8 percent yesterday with a fresh install of Sierra, but now with the new OS-version the usage is mostly beneath the 1,0 percent. The computer doesn't get overheated anymore either. Only the battery time is a little disappointing, with no significant activity it's no more than 8'50". Well, it's a bit better then my 2010 MBA, so I guess I should be pleased.

No more thoughts now about return i should guess?🙂

Recommendation for anyone still affected by this problem, no matter how your computer has behaved to up now. If you think your computer is already getting normal battery usage, there is no advantage to following these instructions.

Until I am sure that the Windows drivers aren't causing the problem this entire procedure should be done booting only into macOS (i.e. don't boot into Windows). I don't definitely know that the Windows' power management driver causes a problem, but I don't know it they doesn't. I understand that VMware runs under macOS, so that's fine.

1. Plug in the power and make sure the computer shows the 'plugged-in' icon.
2. Use the App Store to check that you're not being offered a macOS update. You should be running at least macOS 10.12.2. If a later update is available, install it, then check again. If you're part of the developer programme, you can use the version available to developers. If you're not, you can use the one available to everyone else. There is no difference between the two in regard to this problem.
3. Reset the System Management Controller:
   1. Shut down
   2. Hold down the shift and control and option keys while pressing the power key to the right of the Touch Bar
   3. Release all keys, then press the power key again to boot the computer
4. If the computer isn't already fully charged, allow the computer to top up the battery. You don't have to do this all in one go, just don't run the computer on battery power for longer than a minute until it shows 100%.
5. Allow the battery to run all the way down. You don't have to do this all in one go, just refrain from plugging the computer in again until it hibernates of its own accord. You can do it quickly by running power-intensive apps, or slowly in your normal usage pattern, or any mixture of the two.
6. Recharge the battery fully. You don't have to do this all in one go, just don't run the computer on battery power for longer than a minute or two until it shows 100%.

Return to using the computer as you would normally. You can now boot into Windows again if you want. After a day or so of allowing the computer to reassess its power curve you should find it has a reasonable battery life, in line with that advertised by Apple. If this is still not the case, please report it to Apple in the usual ways telling them that you have done the above procedure. Please note that nobody from Apple officially reads this list. Posting about a fault here does not report it to Apple.