Hello, Everyone! Is your New Touch Bar MacBook Pro battery life too short? There is a lot of people complaining about the new MacBook pro battery issue. Today, we would like to share some tips that helps saving a lot of battery life! Hope those tips help you figuring out the battery life issue on MacBook Pro Touch Bar.
01. CALIBRATION
Once you purchased your Mac, you need to do Calibration, because your battery cells are not fully activated. In order to fully activate the battery cells, Plug it in and fully charge your MacBook. When the battery indicates shows 100%, we recommend you to keep charging for 1-2 hours more. > When it’s done, use your MacBook without plugin until your Mac shuts down it self. > When your Mac is turned off, leave your Mac for 1 hour so the battery can completely drain. > Fully charge your Mac again!
Above steps are how to perform battery calibration. The reason for calibration is to use all ranges of the battery cells. When it’s fully activated, you can experience more battery life on your New MacBook Pro with Touch Bar!
02. SAFARI
We recommend Safari web browser instead of Chrome on Mac OS. Safari is well optimized for Mac OS. On the other hand, Chrome consumes a lot of battery life on Mac OS for some reason. Seems like Chrome web browser is not well optimized on Mac OS. In fact, It lasted about 9 – 11 hours in Safari use and 5 – 6 hours in Chrome use.
03. SCREEN BRIGHTNESS
Adjusting brightness of the screen is well known method to increase the battery life on most electronic devices. Yes as you know, screen brightness is an important factor for the battery life. We recommend to dim the brightness to maximize battery life. It helps a lot to save battery life.
04. iTUNES or QUICKTIME PLAYER
Have you experienced that the battery life is too short when watching movie on your Mac? Then try to watch movie with quicktime player. Your movie time will last more than 10 hours! Try to use iTunes when listening music. iTunes and Quicktime Player are the best music and video player on Mac OS. They are well optimized on Mac operating system and works pretty well!
05. UPDATE SOFTWARE
Sometimes new version of the updates could be worse than the previous version. But if you are facing a problem with the current software version, why don’t you try to update to the latest version. Try to update! It could resolve the problem!
06. SMC RESET
For some people, resetting SMC resolves the battery issue. the SMC has the controls and manages battery, fans, backlight keyboard, and etc. When the SMC has problems, some of the hardware parts might not be working properly.
1. Please make sure that your MacBook shut off completely. Go to Apple Logo > Shut Down.
2. When your Mac is turn off, Press and Hold SHIFT + CONTROL + OPTION + POWER BUTTON (The Touch ID is a power Button.) for 10 Seconds.
3. After 10 seconds, you can release all keys.
4. Now Press the Power button (your Touch ID) to turn on!
07. APPLE SHOP
It could be a hardware issue or faulty battery. If all of the above method didn’t work and if it’s been only few days since it’s purchased, we recommend to request refund or exchange your New MacBook Pro.