MBA M1 - Battery life

[Fred Zed]

Nothing at the moment. In my opinion, the OS does a pretty good job of handling the battery side of things. For those who are looking to minimize battery wear for resale purposes, that may leave them wanting more.

Yeah it was a sweet little app. Hopefully bring one out soon for silicon.

 

[redcaptrickster]

There are a lot of things that can affect battery life, the majority of them are self-induced.

I easily get 12 to 13 hours out of mine and that's running Safari, Outlook, Slack, VScode, and Textual the entire time, with 2-3 hours of Zoom calls.

 

[Chunky_Monkey]

Can you share a screenshot of your activity monitor?

Do you have OneDrive or another cloud service running in the background?

Is your MBA automatically downloading episodes from the Podcasts?

Sure, its in German though.

I uninstalled OneDrive, no other cloud service, except iCloud.

Deactivated automatic download in podcasts.

There are a lot of things that can affect battery life, the majority of them are self-induced.

I easily get 12 to 13 hours out of mine and that's running Safari, Outlook, Slack, VScode, and Textual the entire time, with 2-3 hours of Zoom calls.

Yeah, that's what I'm hearing from everybody. I don't reach anything like that and that's only using Safari and Outlook, rarely WhatsApp.

 

[Clausewitz]

Sure, its in German though.
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I uninstalled OneDrive, no other cloud service.

Deactivated automatic download in podcasts.

Yeah, that's what I'm hearing from everybody. I don't reach anything like that and that's only using Safari and Outlook, rarely WhatsApp.

I think language is not an issue for understanding Energy Impact.

As far as energy impact goes everything seems fine to me, except that time remaining (4:53) against 72% charge is definitely problematic. TBH, I have no solutions to offer as you have essentially exhausted most of the common ones already. So we are left with theories. I am assuming that this screen shot was taken while your MacBook was idle? (This would again worrisome if you have left 4h:53m against 72% for a system sitting idle).

If, you can do a split screen between Safari, while playing 4k video on YT, and the Activity Monitor. Expand Safari's activity as well. Observe the energy impact.

Try shutting down your MacBook for 30 seconds with the lid closed and then turning it on again. This should reset the NVRAM. Observe the battery drain. If the problem persists go to the Apple store.

 

[Kung gu]

return the device. That level of battery life for the apps open is not good

 

[Chunky_Monkey]

I think language is not an issue for understanding Energy Impact.

As far as energy impact goes everything seems fine to me, except that time remaining (4:53) against 72% charge is definitely problematic. TBH, I have no solutions to offer as you have essentially exhausted most of the common ones already. So we are left with theories. I am assuming that this screen shot was taken while your MacBook was idle? (This would again worrisome if you have left 4h:53m against 72% for a system sitting idle).

If, you can do a split screen between Safari, while playing 4k video on YT, and the Activity Monitor. Expand Safari's activity as well. Observe the energy impact.

Try shutting down your MacBook for 30 seconds with the lid closed and then turning it on again. This should reset the NVRAM. Observe the battery drain. If the problem persists go to the Apple store.

Thank you very much.

I did a split screen between Safari and YouTube (although no 4k Video) for 30 Minutes and watched the battery. It declined from 68% to 64%, which I guess is not too bad.
The remaining time also changed a lot. To 10 hours (edit: 9:40 now). Which seems totally fine?!

 

[Clausewitz]

Thank you very much.

I did a split screen between Safari and YouTube (although no 4k Video) for 30 Minutes and watched the battery. It declined from 68% to 64%, which I guess is not too bad.
The remaining time also changed a lot. To 10 hours (edit: 9:40 now). Which seems totally fine?!

I generally think that your machine is working fine. I single tab of YT or Netflix running FHD/UHD videos should not have an exceedingly high energy impact. But multiple tabs running active video streamings might. Try limiting the tabs streaming videos (preferably to one) & see what comes of it.