OS Ventura 13.01 Battery Drain? (14 inch M1 Pro)

[RJR993]

Unsure if the battery life on my M1 14' MBP has gotten worse since upgrading to Ventura about a month ago. I have had the computer since February of this year.

I can recall prior to the upgrade I'd be able to watch 4K YouTube on 50% brightness with about 8-10 hours of screen on time.

However since upgrading to Ventura my battery has been draining about 10% per hour with 4K YouTube at 50% brightness + Bluetooth on connected to AirPods Max, and with light internet browsing with bluetooth turned off and 50% brightness my battery went from 80% to 60% in roughly 2-2.5 hours.

I am unsure if my expectations are an unrealistic or if there is some bug going on with the OS and my battery. Currently my battery health is at 94%.

Would love to get the forums input on this.

 

[iamMacPerson]

Yeah battery life has taken a noticeable hit on my 16” M1 Max. Last night, just running Word and Safari while writing a paper, I think I used 10-15% in about 2 hours. I also noticed it’s using a lot more power in sleep mode. Before I could leave it sitting for 2-3 days and maybe loose 5%, now it’s more like 5% per day.

 

[RJR993]

Yeah battery life has taken a noticeable hit on my 16” M1 Max. Last night, just running Word and Safari while writing a paper, I think I used 10-15% in about 2 hours. I also noticed it’s using a lot more power in sleep mode. Before I could leave it sitting for 2-3 days and maybe loose 5%, now it’s more like 5% per day.

Good to know I am not the only one who is experiencing something similar. It seems to be a mixed bag based on reading other similar forum posts on here and elsewhere regarding the battery life performance on 14/16 M1 machines on Ventura.

Hoping this is a known issue for the Engineers at Apple to push out another update to remedy this if it's a Ventura issue.

 

[F23]

turn off ambient mode on youtube, it's noted to cause more drain

 

[RJR993]

As an update from my Original thread post. As I am writing this I am currently on 16% battery waking from sleep after about 12+ hours. I had ended the day yesterday with about 20% (from around 57-60%) and based on what the battery settings is telling me, I had about 5.5 hours of screen on time . This was again watching YouTube on fullscreen with a mix of HD and UHD at 50% brightness with bluetooth on connected to wireless headphones in Safari. Yesterday's usage combined with the prior day, on battery alone has so far netted me about 7-8 hours screen on time.

I feel like loosing about 2 hours of that is rather significant but again maybe my expectations are too high.

 

[RJR993]

turn off ambient mode on youtube, it's noted to cause more drain

Thanks for the suggestion F23, I will try that out! Is there any particular reason (to your knowledge) why that is the case?

 

[F23]

Thanks for the suggestion F23, I will try that out! Is there any particular reason (to your knowledge) why that is the case?

saw a thread on here or on reddit where someone noted increased CPU usage with it on vs off

 

[Econstry]

I also have an battery draining issue on my M1 MBP 2020.

Used it in the last 4 weeks in combination with my new LG Ultrafine connected to Thunderbolt so I didn't noticed any change in battery life.

However, yesterday I used my MacBook for the first time after a long time on the go and noticed a huge difference in battery life. Some weeks ago I had a remaining time of nearly 18 hours with my workflow with 100% and now I am at 10 hours.

The temperatures are fine, my battery health is at 100% and I checked the activity monitor for some noticeable processes, but there is nothing.

I am not doing any creative work. I am just surfing, using software for university like Notion, Obsidan, Anki and Safari.

I hope that it will get fixed soon. It is really annoying to have to worry about the battery and carry a charger with me.

 

[Scruff1026]

I have been trying to monitor mine as much as I can lately seems I lost 8% while powered off for about 20hrs. Looking like im going to get 6hr on a full charge with only light use. Only had the MacBook for a few weeks with this update coming on the second day. Everything seemed fine till this charge.

 

[ISKOTB]

Unsure if the battery life on my M1 14' MBP has gotten worse since upgrading to Ventura about a month ago. I have had the computer since February of this year.

I can recall prior to the upgrade I'd be able to watch 4K YouTube on 50% brightness with about 8-10 hours of screen on time.

However since upgrading to Ventura my battery has been draining about 10% per hour with 4K YouTube at 50% brightness + Bluetooth on connected to AirPods Max, and with light internet browsing with bluetooth turned off and 50% brightness my battery went from 80% to 60% in roughly 2-2.5 hours.

I am unsure if my expectations are an unrealistic or if there is some bug going on with the OS and my battery. Currently my battery health is at 94%.

Would love to get the forums input on this.

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+1 here for OS Ventura draining since I upgraded. Your battery health is probably lower than 94%. Mine is showing 94% but coconutBattery is 89%.

 

[n0taz]

Yes, +1

after i have upgraded to Ventura - my mac drain 100% of battery in 4 days of sleep

 

[Uddername]

So would people's advice be to stick with Monterey if they haven't upgraded already? I don't think I'll need any of Ventura's features for awhile. It's weird - you'd think an update would improve your product, not wreck it.

 

[hovscorpion12]

With MacOS 13.1 just released, I'd like to see a post commenting on the battery performance on the latest OS.

 

[CabanossiHead]

Have the same problem. Hope the update fixes it. My MBA also suddenly dropped battery health after the update. Which was quite puzzling since I have only 34 load cycles and dropped health to 98%

 

[roth_zs1308]

I have an M1 MBP 13 and I've just noticed the same thing 2 weeks ago. I checked the battery health and it showed 97% with 75 cycles, right now it's 95% with 78 cycles. The battery drains remarkably faster than before. Should I be worried or did anybody find a solution for this problem?

 

[CabanossiHead]

I have an M1 MBP 13 and I've just noticed the same thing 2 weeks ago. I checked the battery health and it showed 97% with 75 cycles, right now it's 95% with 78 cycles. The battery drains remarkably faster than before. Should I be worried or did anybody find a solution for this problem?

I found out that somehow email drained the MBP super fast after the update. So now I stop the programm instead of letting it run longer. The battery drain seems normal now. Battery health is still making me wonder how I could have prevented this. I did all Apple said about charging.

 

[Pecka]

This morning my MacBook Pro 13" 2017 with Ventura was lukewarm instead of cold as it usually is.

It was unable to wake up (this have occurred a number of times before).

When I finally got it to reboot the battery had drained quite a bit, it was around 6%.

I'm almost sure that the charge was much higher when I went to bed.

 

[Pecka]

This morning it happened again but this time the battery was completely drained.

Thinking about downgrading to Monterey.

 

[PLS87]

Purchased this MacBook Pro a couple of months ago. Ventura 13. Battery seems to drain quicker than previous machines. Charged to 100% yesterday (2/14). Sleep mode until 30 minutes of use about 12 AM, and again about 60 minutes this afternoon. Battery is at 39%!!