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MacBook Air M1 battery drain - anybody else...?!
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On my M1 MBA I have icloud enabled, with no extra configurations, wake for network enabled. The only thing I've done is clean out the Google/Chrome cruft from my system. I have no issues with battery loss during sleep.
Last night, with the battery fully charged before sleep, zero (as shown in my screenshot). But normally seems like 2-3 % maybe. Could just be that there is a bit of a buffer "above" 100% that was used last night.
2-3% overnight seems normal discharge. Mine is the same & few ppl here seem to have same levels of discharge.
Had the same problem with my new MacBook air M1. Seems to have resolved itself now. Last night drained approx 20% in standby in 11 hours which was a concern. I have just recharged and it has stayed at 100% after 6 hours in standby which is much more like it.
I changed 2 things that I can think of 1. Unchecked wake for network access as per suggestions in this thread 2. Unplugged my wireless mouse adaptor when closing the laptop lid (i.e putting into rest mode). I had previously just left this adaptor in the Mac when I closed the lid.
This is my first Mac so not sure if this is a stupid suggestion, but could it be the mouse adaptor keeping the computer awake whilst in rest mode (i.e searching for the mouse)?
Anyway, thought I would mention in case this helps...Will update if anything changes..
I changed 2 things that I can think of 1. Unchecked wake for network access as per suggestions in this thread 2. Unplugged my wireless mouse adaptor when closing the laptop lid (i.e putting into rest mode). I had previously just left this adaptor in the Mac when I closed the lid.
This is my first Mac so not sure if this is a stupid suggestion, but could it be the mouse adaptor keeping the computer awake whilst in rest mode (i.e searching for the mouse)?
Anyway, thought I would mention in case this helps...Will update if anything changes..
Hi, with my M1 MBA I don't have the feature 'Put hard disks to sleep when possible'?!
Normal behaviour? Do all M1 MacBook don't have that feature?
I am beginning to think that the "wake for network access" only has a little impact on overnight battery drain. Unless there is a lot of activity on iCloud. Even then so it shouldn't impact the battery charge too much.
Interesting. So perhaps it's a bug that has something to do with peripherals? I wonder if this will mean excessive battery drain when using usb mice etc?
Ok - crazy. So why don't I have this feature? Maybe missing translation, as I'm using it in german language?
EDIT: Tried it with English - the same. Menu point not there... MBA M1 16GB 1TB
It is because I had an external spinning disk connected. That option goes away when it isn’t connected
I had exactly the same problem with my MacBook Pro M1.
This was the 35% overnight battery drain two days ago:
Then I disabled "Wake for network access" and updated to Big Sur 11.1.
This was the battery drain last night:
Really happy that it solved the issue since I thought I was going crazy with everyone raving about the amazing battery life. Still a strange issue and the more so as not everyone seems to experience it. Hope this helps someone.
This was the 35% overnight battery drain two days ago:
Then I disabled "Wake for network access" and updated to Big Sur 11.1.
This was the battery drain last night:
Really happy that it solved the issue since I thought I was going crazy with everyone raving about the amazing battery life. Still a strange issue and the more so as not everyone seems to experience it. Hope this helps someone.
I have the 'service recommended - capacity is significantly reduced' warning in my battery settings (m1 macbook pro, 1tb 16gb). Battery health is at 100% (5103 mAh/5103 mAh, 11 cycles, 26 days old) and I ran diagnostics on restarting which found no issues. I see around 10-12 hours use out of it, definitely not the crazy hours others are getting though I'd say I'm a heavy user (blender/Ps etc). Googling around I noticed some saw this error message in Big Sur as a bug during beta over the summer... Should I be worried? I've been rendering in blender this morning and seen 45% drop in 2 hours.
EDIT: After a good hour with in their chat support (where the guy twice advised me to reset smc using a method that only works on intel macbooks) I have to go get it serviced in store. Bah.
EDIT: After a good hour with in their chat support (where the guy twice advised me to reset smc using a method that only works on intel macbooks) I have to go get it serviced in store. Bah.
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Cycles count and some other info is here: Hold the Option key and click the Apple menu. Choose System information. Under the Hardware section of the System Information window, select Power. The current cycle count is listed under the Battery Information section.
Then I have an app called battery health 2 from the app store which shows similar stuff but also mAh/age
Where is this option "Wake for network access"? I can't find it under the battery tab?