Please share the sleep battery drain of your 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Pro / Max

[ihakim]

I'm trying to get a sense for what is normal expected battery drain for new Apple Silicon MacBook Pros when put to sleep. Mine drains 5-10% in sleep during a 24 hour period. Back in the day my old MacBook Pro would drain minimally in sleep if Power Nap was turned off but I understand the M-chips are more like iPhone or iPad chips which are "always on" - I see my email and messaging apps are typically always up to date and applications have been updated during sleep.

Please post a screenshot of your sleep battery usage along with your computer size and specs to standardize.

Mine is the following: 2021 MacBook Pro 14" M1 Max 32c GPU | 64 GB RAM | 2 TB storage. I do not have a lot of applications installed that run in the background or cloud sync services outside of iCloud. Mostly default apps, Microsoft Office, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

 

[jav6454]

Download and open Coconut battery. It'll give you an estimate of how many Watts of power your Mac is using. From there you'll get a more accurate representation.

 

[ihakim]

Download and open Coconut battery. It'll give you an estimate of how many Watts of power your Mac is using. From there you'll get a more accurate representation.

I have done this in the past. States 0 W right when I open the Mac from sleep which likely reflects power drain too small for it to actually register. When in active use, it typically hovers around 4-5W depending on screen brightness and apps in use but that's not really relevant for sleep battery drain. I have edited my original post and changed standby to sleep for clarity.

 

[izzy0242mr]

I'm trying to get a sense for what is normal expected battery drain for new Apple Silicon MacBook Pros when put to sleep. Mine drains 5-10% in sleep during a 24 hour period. Back in the day my old MacBook Pro would drain minimally in sleep if Power Nap was turned off but I understand the M-chips are more like iPhone or iPad chips which are "always on" - I see my email and messaging apps are typically always up to date and applications have been updated during sleep.

Please post a screenshot of your sleep battery usage along with your computer size and specs to standardize.

Mine is the following: 2021 MacBook Pro 14" M1 Max 32c GPU | 64 GB RAM | 2 TB storage. I do not have a lot of applications installed that run in the background or cloud sync services outside of iCloud. Mostly default apps, Microsoft Office, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

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I'll update with more details later, but over a short period my battery dropped 6% over the span of 2.5 hours while in sleep mode (which is like 1% every 25 minutes, which seems like quite a lot). MacBook Pro 14", 8-core, 16 GB ram.

 

[chriswhv6]

So this is one week going off the initial charge that i did when I purchased my new MBP 16 inch M1 Pro, 16GB, 1TB.
7 days left to run on battery, never shut it down fully during the night just lid closed/sleep mode.
Had 13% of battery left before i plugged it into the charger last night.

What do you guys think is it ok for a weeks worth of use/standby?
Im thinking its about 11 hours approx of on screen time during the entire week.

 

[MrGunny94]

 

[kibepo73]

There are multiple different reasons that cause the Mac battery to drain fast issue. However, to fix the problem, you can try the below fixes:

1. Restart your Mac
2. Install the latest macOS updates
3. Check battery usage in System Preferences
4. Reset PRAM/NVRAM and SMC
5. Turn off Power Nap

Hope this will help you resolve the issue!