MacBook Pro 2018 13" battery life not as described (i.e. <8 hours)?

First, as always, if you have warranty coverage and reasonable access to an Apple Genius bar, then by all means have them look at it as soon as you can.

If it is hard to get to an Apple Genius bar, this Apple article has a test that can see if some runaway background process or app is causing a shortened battery runtime:

See how apps affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity - Apple Support

Step 1 in massively important to getting usable data.

However, as the test's output is dynamic, changing every few seconds, it is hard to share the results here. A better way for us to help is to post a snapshot of your system configuration. Fortunately there is a safe and secure way to do that.

A respected and long-serving member of these communities has created a simple utility that will take a "snapshot" of your configuration without revealing any sensitive information about you and your computer. It is EtreCheck, and is available free from the Mac App Store here:

EtreCheck on the Mac App Store

Run it, select Report" from the left-hand pane (scroll down to the bottom of that pane to find) and, when its report displays, click the "Share Report" icon and then "Copy " from the resulting dropdown. Paste the entire report into a response to your own thread here. It will often allow us to quickly identify or eliminate software as the problem.

Thank you. I am not seeing some of the known miscreants I expected. However, I would completely uninstall Memory Clean. If someone pitches an app to you with "clean" in the name, run away. Third-party maintenance utilities compete with such functions that already exist in macOS and can slow performance and and increase workload.

I would try running without Adblock to see it it is contributing the the drain. Likewise with the extra battery monitoring software. I only use Coconut Battery to occasional check battery condition. It runs only when you launch it and leaves nothing running when you quit it.

What is the app whose title is in Chinese? Google Translate would not translate it for me.

You are wise to avoid Chrome but be aware that, with any browser, specific web pages can use much more energy that others even if left open in the background. Amazon's home age is a big offender in this area. I have a 2012 MBP 13 that I use when I am at a volunteer job. Normally in the 3.5-4 hours I am there the battery will drop from fully charged to the 65-70% range using Safari. I normally have Safari open to Apple's forums with 14-18 tabs open at once. Recently I had looked up something on Amazon to answer a question here and left the Amazon home page running in a window in the background.

A short time later I looked at the battery charge and it was low 40-percent range after only about two hours of use. I opened Activity Monitor "Energy" tab and found that the Amazon page--ONE page--was using 20-25X the energy of any of 18 Apple Discussions tabs. It was also using a lot of CPU cycles. The estimate of remaining battery was under 30 minutes. I closed the Amazon window and within a few minutes the remaining time had returned to what I expected from the computer based on history and I was able to finish my shift without running out of battery.

On election night I ran into a non-government vote reporting site that did the same thing. As there is little way outside of using Activity Monitor all the time to spot-check sites, I now make sure only the sites I need remain open.

Not familiar with FUSE. I know its old versions can be problematic with newer OS versions but it appears you have a recent install.

Neither am I familiar with VeraCrypt, OmniFocus, or Popcorn. Any that are system mods or "phone home" in the background could affect battery runtime.

Thank you--I am happy to help.

Back when I was using PhotoShop and InDesign so much (pre my retirement), the Cloud features had not yet encroached into the workflow and, as I was one of only two Mac drivers/CC users in sea of Windows computers, we did not need Bridge for collaboration. I created the tech content and sent it to the GFX designer for final layout so it was mostly one-way. Plus I was an old-school proofer: red pencil and paper copies. Having InDesign on my computer was largely so I could back up her function should Corporate do something dead-brain stupid like move her function across country.

So I am not the best resource on what CC is doing in the background. At the time of your test I don't think the Adobe stuff was very active.

I think your best action on the Adobe issue is to look in on the Adobe forums. There don't seem to be a lot of CC users here and those that post seem to be asking about Photoshop, not the cloud and Bridge functions.

Again, in case this is a real hardware issue, please be sure to get Apple to check it out while you still have warranty coverage. Peace of mind is a good thing!

Allan