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MacBook Pro 2016 short battery life

Hi all,

I have the new MacBook Pro, 13 inch with touch bar, with 3.3Ghz and 16GB.

Ever since I got it I found the battery life was far from impressive.

I hardly get 4-5 hours battery life. I often have many apps open, but nothing heavy. Note I often have a windows session opened with Parallels with little going on there as well.

When I have no windows and much less apps open, I don't sense a big improvement in battery life.

The laptop is very new, obviously, and it has only 33 cycles.

I know that with higher specs, I should expect lower battery life than the 10 hours standard specs announced by Apple, but down to 4 hours? I'd be happy enough with a solid 7-8 hours. 4 hours these days is very little and frustrating. Basically means I need to plug in all the time.

Anyone with similar specs can share their battery life experience?

Cheers,

Bert

See if calibrating makes a difference.

Discharge the battery to 10% then re charge to 100% the monitor battery usage.

About Mac notebook batteries - Apple Support

nope, I have been there a few times. No difference.

I'd really like to know if others with similar specs observe similar performance (or if Apple can advise on this).

Hey Bert,

My MacBook has similar specs (13 inch, 3.3Ghz, 8GB), and I have been experiencing the same issues since I received the laptop in early January--would love for someone with more expertise than I to advice.

-Cartter

Have you installed any third-party utilities like anti-virus programs or so-called "cleaning/tuneup" apps? They will hurt battery runtime (technically "battery life" is the time before the battery must be replaced). So can adware and some security programs for online banking..

Software causes of runtime issues are easily diagnosed so are a good place to start. 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 here:

https://etrecheck.com/

Run it and, when its report displays, click "Share Report" and then "Copy Report" from the resulting dropdown. Paste the entire report into a response to your own thread here. It will allow us to quickly identify or eliminate software as the problem.

Thank Allan,

Just ran the EtreCheck diagnostic and pasted bellow the result report. Let me know if you can see something wrong with it.

I also just timed the battery: it went down from 100% to 5% in 5h15min with a moderate usage; mostly reading on preview, some internet browsing, 2 hrs listening to i-tunes and no major apps running. I use this computer the same way I used a MacBook Air before, but the battery didn't seem to drain that fast on the MacBook Air.

Anyway, I find that 5hrs with moderate usage is too far off Apple specs and is seriously disappointing (other than that, what a great computer!). I unfortunately have the feeling that this is just what I should expect :-(

EtreCheck version: 3.1.5 (343)

Report generated 2017-03-23 17:43:23

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime 1:47

Performance: Excellent

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Problem: Other problem

Description:

Battery runtime seems very low for a new machine.

Hardware Information: ⓘ

    MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

    [Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro13,2

    1 3.3 GHz Intel Core i7 (i7-6567U) CPU: 2-core

    16 GB RAM Not upgradeable

        BANK 0/DIMM0

            8 GB LPDDR3 2133 MHz ok

        BANK 1/DIMM0

            8 GB LPDDR3 2133 MHz ok

    Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

    Wireless:  en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

    Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 34

Video Information: ⓘ

    Intel Iris Graphics 550

        Color LCD 2880 x 1800

        S24E390 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

System Software: ⓘ

    macOS Sierra  10.12.3 (16D32) - Time since boot: about 10 days

Disk Information: ⓘ

    APPLE SSD AP1024J disk0 : (1 TB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 315 MB

        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

        Macintosh HD (disk1) /  [Startup]: 999.24 GB (692.87 GB free)

            Core Storage: disk0s2 999.59 GB Online

USB Information: ⓘ

    Apple Inc. USB2.0 Hub

        Apple Inc. USB-C VGA Multiport Adapter

    Apple Inc. iBridge

    Apple Inc. USB3.0 Hub

Thunderbolt Information: ⓘ

    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus_1

    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus_0

Gatekeeper: ⓘ

    Mac App Store and identified developers

Kernel Extensions: ⓘ

        /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app

    [not loaded]    com.parallels.kext.hypervisor (12.1.3 41532 - SDK 10.9 - 2017-02-01) [Support]

    [not loaded]    com.parallels.kext.netbridge (12.1.3 41532 - SDK 10.9 - 2017-02-01) [Support]

    [not loaded]    com.parallels.kext.usbconnect (12.1.3 41532 - SDK 10.9 - 2017-02-01) [Support]

    [not loaded]    com.parallels.kext.vnic (12.1.3 41532 - SDK 10.9 - 2017-02-01) [Support]

        /System/Library/Extensions

    [not loaded]    com.joshuawise.kexts.HoRNDIS (8.0 - SDK 10.6 - 2017-03-23) [Support]

System Launch Agents: ⓘ

    [not loaded]    7 Apple tasks

    [loaded]    158 Apple tasks

    [running]    115 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons: ⓘ

    [not loaded]    40 Apple tasks

    [loaded]    146 Apple tasks

    [running]    124 Apple tasks

Launch Agents: ⓘ

    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2017-01-14) [Support]

Launch Daemons: ⓘ

    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2017-03-01) [Support]

    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (2017-01-24) [Support]

    [running]    com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist (2016-12-17) [Support]

    [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (2016-12-09) [Support]

User Launch Agents: ⓘ

    [loaded]    com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist (2017-03-10) [Support]

User Login Items: ⓘ

    iTunesHelper    Application   (2017-03-23)

        (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

    Dropbox    Application 

        (/Applications/Dropbox.app)

    Parallels Toolbox    Application 

        (/Applications/Parallels Toolbox.app)

Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

    FlashPlayer-10.6: 25.0.0.127 - SDK 10.9 (2017-03-15) [Support]

    QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2017-01-01)

    Flash Player: 25.0.0.127 - SDK 10.9 (2017-03-15) [Support]

Safari Extensions: ⓘ

    Open in Internet Explorer - Parallels - https://www.parallels.com (2016-12-20)

3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ

    Flash Player (2017-03-01) [Support]

    PrintOptionPane (2014-06-11) [Support]

Time Machine: ⓘ

    Skip System Files: YES - System files not being backed up

    Auto backup: YES

    Volumes being backed up:

        Macintosh HD: Disk size: 999.24 GB Disk used: 306.37 GB

    Destinations:

        Time Machine Backups [Network]

        Total size: 999.55 GB

        Total number of backups: 34

        Oldest backup: 2/1/17, 9:51 pm

        Last backup: 23/3/17, 11:24 am

        Size of backup disk: Adequate

            Backup size 999.55 GB > (Disk used 306.37 GB X 3)

Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ

        16%   Mail

        12%   WindowServer

         8%   iTunes

         4%   kernel_task

         3%   fontd

Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ

    1.29 GB   kernel_task

    1.23 GB   com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(7)

    393 MB    WindowServer

    360 MB    PDF Expert

    344 MB    mtmd

Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ

    5.63 GB   Available RAM

    1.78 GB   Free RAM

    10.37 GB  Used RAM

    3.85 GB   Cached files

    330 MB    Swap Used

Diagnostics Information: ⓘ

    Mar 23, 2017, 09:07:47 AM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iTunes_2017-03-23-090747_[redacted].crash

        com.apple.iTunes - /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes

    Mar 23, 2017, 09:07:47 AM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iTunesHelper_2017-03-23-090747_[redacted].cras h

        com.apple.iTunesHelper - /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesH elper

    Mar 22, 2017, 01:47:27 AM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/fud_2017-03-22-014727_[redacted].crash

        /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileAccessoryUpdater.framework/Support/fud

    Mar 21, 2017, 12:00:44 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/loginwindow_2017-03-21-120044_[redacted].crash

        /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow

I think this is a deawback in macbook pro 2016.

I think I figured out what was causing the issue on my end: the hover zoom safari extension that I was using. Before uninstalling, the 'Avg Energy Impact' of safari on the activity monitor was ~30, and it is now staying under 10. Hope something similar can work for you.

Dear Bert,

I do not see the bad actors I expected. You have a very clean installation. I would contact Apple for their evaluation.

One thinkg to try--a lot shot but easy to do: restart the computer and see if it acts differently. This entry:

System Software: ⓘ

    macOS Sierra  10.12.3 (16D32) - Time since boot: about 10 days

is not a serious issues--I try to restart my older MBP about once a week--but a restart will clean out caches and temp files that Etrecheck does not report. If that helps it could indicate that some process or program is a little too busy in the background after the computer has been on for a while. Again, long shot.

This Apple article:

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

talks about runaway background processes that cans shorten runtime.

reckonankit wrote:

I think this is a deawback in macbook pro 2016.

Yes, it could be. However, many of these reports here prove to be due to uselss third-party utilties like anti-virus that users installed. Note that user cartterp found a third-party Safari extension was causing his problem.

Thanks Allan. I will try to time the battery runtime after restart and see if it gets better.

If not, I will contact Apple support, but without too much hope on this.

I'll let you know if anything positive comes up out of it!

Cheers!

Yes, the Macbook Pro you have (I just bought the same configuration) has a 30% smaller battery capacity than the last Macbook Pro version, there's no magic solution for that unfortunately. Anandtech wrote a concise article about this issue, please check it out:

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/12/explaining-the-battery-life-problems-with- the-new-macbook-pros/2/

I will probably return my one - I'm really not that fussed about battery life if it's reasonable, my biggest "thing" was getting a very compact device that would power Xcode and video editing. But the battery life I'm seeing (clean setup, not transferring data/settings) is dire. Kaby Lake would help but without a radical internals-redesign even that won't make a day-night difference.

If you're hoping that Apple will fix the issue, I've a bridge I'd like to sell you - that's not how Apple works. They will have already pulled most everyone except for a skeleton team off resolving any Macbook Pro issues onto getting the Kaby Lake macbook launched.

To eek out a longer battery life you'll need to resort to using Safari (which I never ordinarily use), being VERY picky about which apps are running, and dramatically skimping on screen brightness. Personally I'm not sure I'm interested in playing those games, that's why I'm returning mine.

Thanks for this information. The anandtech article was interesting. I suppose I should learn to close down idle apps when I am not plugged in (I often have many, too many, apps open at the same time). The MacBook Pro still is a great compact computer, just not so good when travelling. Unfortunately I have had mine for too long to return it. So I will have to make good use of the tips you sent me.

I bought an 8GB RAM MBP 13" with TouchBar and some days ago I've been using it to write my monography with TexPad, browsing with Safari and listening to MP3 songs with iTunes. I rarely use backlight on keyboard and screen brightness is lower than 50%.

I sadly cannot reached more than 5 hours before a recharge.

I Have the 15" MBP (8GB) with touch bar and I got may be 2 hours out of it before hitting 10% battery warning. I was primarily using Firefox and Word. Super disappointed!

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