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idle drain

  1. dragunica

    13' 2015 mbp sleep/battery issue

    Hi, I am new to macOS. I recently bought my first MacBook 2015 (refurbished one) from a legit store. Everything is perfect except one issue. Whenever I put it to sleep, the battery is draining itself a lot. I have turned off bluetooth, wifi, turned off power nap and notifications when the...
  2. G

    Mac Book Pro 2018 draining battery overnight

    Hi! This night my 2018 13" MacBook Pro died overnight. I had the lid open, but after some time it should go to sleep even with the lid open. It does that normally. I ran "(log show --style syslog | fgrep "Wake reason" | grep '2018-11')" in terminal and found out that about 3 things woke it up...
  3. P

    MacBook Pro 2018 Draining Battery when lid closed

    Hi everyone, my Macbook Pro 2018 (15", 1TB, 16GB, Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6) drains battery massively when the lid is closed. When I turn down my Mac at night closing the lid with around 80+% battery and return in the morning to open the Mac, my battery is always almost empty with below 15%...
  4. Mixolyd

    PSA: If your 2015 or 2016 MBP has some battery drain while sleeping, here is the fix

    Backstory: I just got a 2016 13'' non TB MBP. I noticed that after sleeping for a day or two, there was some battery drain. I also have a 2014 rMBP which does not drain at all. I tested and it seemed to drain 5% over 24 hours while the 2014 did not. After pulling my hair out trying to find a...