So you can leave me your email and I will occasionally send you stuff I find useful. You might follow me on Twitter, but we both know Twitter is very noisy. They are probably doing some dirty stuff in JavaScript which is draining your battery like hell. Kill the most greedy websites with fire and notify their developers. If you feel that your laptop battery is struggling because of the Chrome, check out the Chrome Task Manager. I can live without pinned tab about exchange rates, if that makes my laptop alive for twice the time. And look at this, when I have this page opened and pinned: Tab XE.com is sooooooo CPU intensive (the tab was inactive when I created the screenshot) I had the currency exchange rates (USD to EUR) opened all the time.
Some computers appear to have a shorter battery life when running on Linuxthan they do when running Windows or Mac OS. Find the tabs that are constantly greedy for your CPU and kill them with fire! Apple in the second macOS Catalina 10.15.5 beta added a new Battery Health Management feature for Macs, which is designed to prolong the battery life and battery health of modern Mac notebooks. What you’re interested in is the CPU - this is what is draining your battery. When opened, it will reveal more fine-grained details about CPU and RAM spent within Chrome. It is called Task Manager and you can find it in Menu > More Tools > Task Manager. There is one not-so-well known tool in Chrome, that allows you to analyse how much resources the individual tabs consume. I have couple of pinned tabs which I want always open and then come the tabs that “ come and go”. I literally had to close one single tab in Chrome, which was using lots of CPU.
Fixes for MacBook pro battery life problems on macOS 10.14.
So, how did I manage to cut it down to about one third? It could be much worse for Mac users whose battery drains fast after upgrading to macOS 10.14. By the time I went to analyze it for the first time, the Avg Energy Impact value for Chrome was well over 100, around 140. The screenshot above was taken at the time I am writing this and it showing the “fixed” Chrome. You can solve the problem easily by quitting the app, but as I mentioned, this was not viable in my case, as I want to use Chrome. If you sort the list by column Avg Energy Impact, you will find the most troublesome apps. But then one day about 2 weeks ago, when I was lying ill in my bed, I decided to check what is draining my battery so fast and if I can fix it.įortunately the OS X comes with the Activity Monitor, which also gives you the overview which apps put most impact on your battery life. It is normal that it is losing its power over time. I use Chrome for this, I rarely open any other browser - most of the time for testing only.Ĭhrome is generally known not being energy efficient app, so it is a trade-off, but I find it much better (especially for dev) than anything else.įor quite some time now I started to notice that the battery is not lasting as long as it used to when I bought this laptop a year and a half ago. This is mostly because I read stuff, stick on social media or develop websites. I spend most of the time on my laptop in the browser. It is so easy to do once you know where to look. Today I want to share a quick and easy hack that doubled the time-on-battery on my laptop. Things I've done: Spotlight has finished indexing and nothing changed, not using the Photo app, SMC reset did not solve, going into Safe Mode and back did not help.By Primož Cigler How I doubled the battery life on my Mac by literally closing one tab in a browser
The point here is, there are many people complaining about the Sierra battery drain and overheating but I have found no solution, is there something I have to do in order to make it act normally (temperature and battery life), or, I just have to wait for an update by Apple? Previously, my battery life (El Capitan and Sierra before reset) was about 10 hrs, now, only 3 hrs on average. Now it is always hot, unusually hot even when I'm just browsing on Safari or writing on Office. The problem occurred when I finally started using my clean Mac. All went well, Utility, Erase and that stuff was all smooth. Downloaded, installed and everything was fine.Ī couple of days ago I decided to do my very first factory reset with Sierra already on my Mac. I bought my MacBook Pro in 2013 and since then I've never made a factory reset, so I directly installed all the new OS', same thing I did last week with Sierra.