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battery capacity

  1. Thumbdrive

    Macbook Pro (M1 Pro, 14" Late 2021) Battery Drain

    Hello! Just curious, but does anyone know why my Macbook Pro might be draining faster than usual? I have the 14" late 2021 model with 16gb of ram, 512 gb of storage, 8 cores, and AppleCare. I got it new last September, and in the last few weeks, I have noticed that it is draining much faster...
  2. F

    iPhone 12 Pro Noticing performance degredation

    I've had my iPhone 12 Pro since Jan 2021. It has a battery capacity of 84%. For me, I am noticing Safari needing to reload tabs often, and apps like Messages need to be reloaded too. Is this memory management or is this the iPhone degrading its performance slightly to help with the battery...
  3. L

    MacBook Pro M1 charging Best Practices? 🤔

    Hello, everyone! Could you please share best practices of charging your Macbook that you know and follow? I want to extend the life span of my comparatively new Macbook Pro’s battery as much as possible. Here are my charging practices: I put my Macbook on charge when it has +/- 20% of battery...
  4. Lusitano

    iPhone 14 Pro Max My Iphone 14 pro Max comes with more battery capacity then it should

    Hello All, I have had multiple apple devices along the years and I always check my Battery health on coconut battery for Mac. I recently bought an iPhone 14 pro max (about 2 weeks ago) and when I connected it today on my Mac it says that it currently has more battery capacity the announced by...
  5. S

    Battery Calibration - 2015 15" rMBP (or really any MacBook)- Great Results!

    Hi All, Long-time Mac tinkerer and collector here. I recently picked up a lot of 6 2015 rMBP with mixed specs, and intend to dish out at Christmas time to a few family members in need of casual, light-use machines. First, however, I had to do some maintenance - swapping boards to pair better...
  6. skylar3

    Battery Capacity 2021 MBP 16

    Dear All, I recently took a look at the battery capacity of my 2021 M1 Pro MBP, bought around February 2022, and noticed that it has dropped significantly after 45 charge cycles (compared for example to my much older iPhone, after 2 years still at 88 percent). According to settings the maximum...
  7. C

    Power for peripherals

    I have had a MacBook Pro 2016 for around 3 years, although the battery cycle count is 309 I am getting "Service Battery". I routinely use it with an external (portable USB-C) monitor, an external SSD and and external HDD and two bluetooth peripherals. It struggles to start up with the monitor...
  8. B

    Shocked Had to pay to replace never used Battery on MBPro 2020

    Hi everyone. This is my 1st post. I'm a long-time Mac User. I bought a brand new MBPro 13" in late 2020. Then lockdown and Apple launched M1. Tried to return my unopened MBPro and was told I'd only receive a trade-in value!!!! So I decided to keep it, but also bought a new MBP 14 inch which I...
  9. DD88

    Far too many conflicting opinions about MacBook Pro battery

    I was looking for the best ways to charge my Macbook Pro in order to preserve the battery life for as long as possible but there so many varying opinions on here and YouTube and Reddit users are exactly the same. Here is what I’ve read and discovered so far from other users, these are not my...
  10. Cyndaquil

    iPhone X Battery health significantly degraded at 100% iphone x

    Hello, hope you guys can be of help. I recently purchased an iphone x reburbished from a reliable source, it's out of guarantee I realized one day after 2 weeks i got it the battery said "service" and went check and battery capacity was at 100% anyway the day after it went to 96% then 92%. I...
  11. B

    Macbook Pro 2017 13" Draining Battery Plugged In With Brand New Battery

    My 2017 Macbook Pro 13" with Retina display was having battery issues where it would drain battery very fast not plugged in and even drained battery while it was plugged in. The battery was showing service recommended and I thought replacing the battery would solve the issue and I just got my...
  12. Jmgilliam18

    Improving Battery on 2019 MBP

    Got 13" 2019 MBP - my battery capacity is 82.% and 490 cycles. It's terrible. It maybe lasts 3 hours. Is there anything can do to boost it back, conditioning etc... Replacement?
  13. Ibara

    iPad Pro iPad Pro 12.9 2021 - Poor battery life

    I recently bought an iPad Pro 12.9 M1. Apart from being a little annoyed by the edge shadow, I was initially happy. However the battery life seems rather poor. As an example, browsing the web with both Safari or Brave will use 1% every few minutes. Sometimes even more. I found a Youtube video...
  14. L

    MacBook Pro 15" 2019 is Battery issues comes from using different less powerful power adaptor?

    So my story is... MacBook Pro 2019 15"... Laptop I bought from second hand when it was under warranty. Now warranty has already expired. Until recently I was using MacBook only connected to the power supply. Now my user scenarios has been changed and I started to use it without power adaptor...
  15. huzi

    MBP2020 13 inch with 92% full charge capacity after only 11 cycles

    I'm using a MBP 2020 13 inch for about five months and just noticed the full charge capacity has dropped to 92.5% while the cycle count is just 12. Is this normal? With this capacity I can only use it for about 5 hours without charging, which is much much shorter than that in my MBP 2015 (also a...
  16. J

    Replace battery on MacBook Pro

    I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch, mid 2010. I never changed my battery before on this computer and right now the "Condition" of the battery shows "Replace Now" with 1142 cycles. Without being plugged to a source of electricity it holds up for 30min +/- so it's time to change it. I was looking...
  17. J

    94% battery design capacity in a little more than a month of use (Macbook Pro 16")

    As title says, I'm experiencing a really terrible battery problem in my Macbook Pro. I received my device of the 5th of June with 98% design capacity. This capacity fluctuated between ~97% to ~99% in the first week of use. Fast forward a month and 5 days later, my laptop's design capacity has...
  18. randyleytan

    MacBook Pro "13, 2020, full battery capacity issues?

    Alright, I know what you're going to say: "Another post about battery issues". Yes. So I got my MacBook Pro around 3 weeks ago almost. Since then, I have varied when it comes to its use especially plugged in or not. At first, I charged it to 100% and unplugged it but then began to just use it...
  19. mikedop

    iPhone 7/Plus Battery Degrading & Performance

    I’m interested in discussion on the iPhone’s battery degrading and how it affects performance. As it stands now, my iPhone 7+ battery is at 75% Maximum Capacity. I’d like to learn a little more as to what exactly this means, and how it might be affecting my device’s performance. I’ve noticed...
  20. khalitzy

    I'm pretty disappointed with the MBP 16" battery health situation.

    So many people -myself included- report that their 16" battery health is less than 100% out of the box. Now that'd be okay if it was 99 or even 98. But for most, it's 95% or even less. Now that's all fine and dandy, discharge and charge and let it calibrate, it'll be fine and report correct...