Ultimate Macbook Battery Guide 💻🔋⚡️ Top Tips in 2021
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- Got an M1 or Intel Macbook Air or Pro and want to look after your battery? Want to get the most years out of the battery? I give you the top tips to look after your battery!
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Still the best advice would be plain and simple: Don't overthink about your battery, and use your device to maximize whatever you needed it for in the first place. The battery health advice on this video is great, though, and certainly "not overthinking" doesn't mean "not doing at all".
Absolutely right! Hello from Greece
Awesome video! Charged my mac to 90% by accident last night, will definitely be more aware of my battery after this video! You deserved a new sub!!👍🏽
Glad to see you back Mike. Thank you for the helpful tips.
very helpful and to the point, thanks!
Thank you! Great information and fruitful discussion.
Thank you for your time and knowledge
Easy to understand. Thank you for this video 👍🏽
Thank you! Great information and fruitful discussion. That's all I have been searching for.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thanks for the helpful tips, you've got a new subscriber.
Kindness and smile the best presentation!
After a long time 😄 glad to see you back here 🙌🏻
Hahaha thanks!
Wonderfully helpful! Thank you :)
Glad that helped you out!
Seems very helpful for me. Thanks for your kind information. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, will do!
A good 15 mins of solid info and tips. No fillers or talking crap.
The only part I don't like hearing is using Safari instead of Chrome ... but the fault is mine really, LOL
Great video. Thanks!
Thanks Freddy!!
thank you thank youuuuu!!
Great video. Thanks for the tips. God bless you.
Thank you and stay safe 🙏🏽
First of all: Thank you! There aren't many videos out there about this topic with so much information, it's very cool of you to make it. Recently I bought a MacBook Air M1 and I have been paranoid about not ruining its battery so quickly, so this comes in very handy. Really appreciate it!
Thank you for the lovely comment!
@@Techkhamun You're welcome! ❤️🤗🤗🤗
Informative video.
Thank you! I was going to calibrate based on old information, but now I'll start recharging when it hits about 20 percent and stop when it hits 80 percent.
@@goldeternal what software ?
I learnt a lot thanks, and also learnt after years that your channel isn't called TechkHuman but TechkHamun. Great video, super delivery and you come across like a very nice chap, well done!
So nice of you!!! Thank you!
This is so helpful tips… thank you…
You're so welcome!
*_Since I had my MBP Intel chips in 2020, I left it plugged in 24/7. It significantly reduced battery life when unplugged. Maybe because I'm using many heavy apps (Adobe, etc.) at the same time, and haven't adjusted to all the suggestions in this video. Thank you for this video._*
Great video . Just one suggestion- putting time stamps would be great . Thank you 🙏🏻
An excellent video ... very informative. I'm not a MacBook user, but I'm hoping to be one at some point in time and good battery life is a feature that I am very interested in. I have a Dell laptop running Windows 10 and it has a Dell utility that allows me to control the charging of my battery. I can specify the lower and upper battery charge limits which goes a long way to keep my battery healthy. This is of special importance with my laptop because Dell stops selling replacement batteries for their laptops after just a few years, and I have to rely on a 3rd Party vendor to provide a new battery. Unfortunately, such batteries are often of poor quality.
Have you tried the application ALDente it allows you to set a specific battery percentage and it won't charge further
Very interesting video, thank you.
As other people also ask, what do you think of Al'Dente?
Good video.
Thank you
Great video! Thanks for this. Do you have an update of this for m2 air or m3? Thanks man!
amazing content 🤩
Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
He is back🙌🏼
I am back lol
so if i will be on the desk all day, is it ok to plug it even past 80%? it get on hold, but then charges before the promised time. also what about the "maximum capacity" under health and cycle count, what does it mean? thank you!!!
The king is back! 🔥
Haha thanks! Sorry for the break!
@@Techkhamun that’s totally ok, we all need a break.
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7:32 True! Here in India, my 2015 MBP's lowest working temp is 45C... never gone below that. Highest at about 90-100C when two or three apps are open.
What if it’s plugged into a external monitor via a USB C cable?! It’s charging 24/7 if you use a USB-C cable
This was definitely helpful. Thank you!
Which option would you say is better for a mac? Shutting it down after use or putting it to sleep?
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Should I charge and use it at the same time?
Should I charge my brand new macbook m1pro 14inch model at 20 percent and stop at 80percent every day?
Can I use a plastic or steel board underneath a macbook to charge or use? I know wood is fine. Any help.
Is it healthy to make the mac sleep instead of shutting it down for the battery?
will shutting down rather than sleep better for preserving battery?
What will happed if I use a 5-10W charger and let my M1 Macbook Air battery drain slowly durning whole day of use?
Please help. I bought a new MacBook Air M1. There is no battery charging indicator light. How can I know if it's charged full
is it alright to turn on low power mode all the time even while charging?
Hi, I can’t find battery optimisation or other settings in my mba 2015…
You should turn off your macbook when you are charging ir or you can use it in the meantime??? Please clarify it
The battery has 80% left before shutting down, but leave it on for a day, turn on the remaining 0%, then send the power for about 2 minutes, the battery rises to 80%. Why?
Amazing video. Only thing I heard that’s different is that you shut down the macbook. I heard in another video that shutting it down and starting it up everytime means a lot of checks and data will be gathered and analysed(which occurs when you shut down or start up). Wouldn’t that strain the battery as well?
how stop chargin in 80% ?
I have MacBook 2023 Sonoma and I can't stop to 80 % like u
when my battery to 100% charging stay plugged in charg and work with him
is there a danger to the health of the battery or battery itself?
does shifting to chrome really have a very significant change in battery health? because ive really optimised my chrome browser and itll be a pai shifting to safari lol
what about shutting it off? how often ? :)
What is your thoughts about al dente app?
why I have not seen this OnHold when it hits 80% on my MacBook Pro 14 (M1 pro)...the optimized option is turned on all the time. and every time it does slow down when over 80% ,yet still slows goes to 100% everytime .... who can answer me, LOL
I understand I should keep my MacBook between 20-80% but when I am going out for the day and I know I will be using my laptop through out the day doing video editing and other tasks, Should I charge up my MacBook to 100% for them occasions?
Yes
wonder why no techies are mentioning aldente, sure beats mindfully monitoring your charge sequences... my battery health stopped degrading once i started using it since i often use it near an outlet, it lets you set an upper limit for battery charging and lets the laptop use power directly from the power adapter to spare battery usage.
Ive heard it will make your MBA shut down randomly after long use
Someone get this man a medal for helping us preserve our MacBook batteries. 🥇
Hahaha thank you!
my new macbook is already 5 cycle in 6 days. Should I just keep it plugged in at 100% as I always work on my desk?
Yup
This is helpful, and you answered my question about having the charger in while using the MacBook. When I am at home I would rather use the electricity when I am near a power source and save the battery when I am not near a power source, but I don’t want to wear the battery down, and the settings you mentioned, will be a help. I wrote down some notes about the best temperature range while using and the best temperature range to use while storing. Also, I use Safari on all my Apple devices, my phone and my I-Pad Pro. (The new M1 12.9 I-Pad Pro). What can.I do as far as battery settings on the I-Pad Pro? I didn’t see the same settings under battery as on the Mac. Thank you for making this video.
The iPads do not have the same settings due to its limited OS. iPad OS does have some features baked into the OS to manage the battery but unfortunately you can not adjust the settings the same way on macOS. But if you follow the physical tips for your iPad this will help its battery life.
@@Techkhamun, Thank you for the information. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more videos.
Do you recommend Al Dente to limit charge at a certain percent like 60?
Don’t ever use any third party software to manage your battery. Let the apple inbuilt battery health management to take care of it. One or two bugs in al dente and you are fucked
Can you made a video about the App AlDente it's very useful to save the battety when plugged in
I love Aldente. If you keep your macbook plugged in a lot, I suggest you set the limit to around 50%. This is the recommended level for storage of Li polymer batteries, since it places minimal stress on the battery.
I bought MacBook Pro M1 a month ago and it's battery was 0 percent when I first started. Why Apple does not consider this?
As a Chemical; Engineer familiar with the chemistry involved, I think you give pretty good advice. Based on the testing charts of which I have access, using the 20/80 method will definitely increase the amount of total energy dispensed by your battery over its lifetime.
I'm also glad you mentioned heat as a big culprit, because it is one of the biggest enemies of the health of your battery. One point I would like to make regarding heat is that the battery temperature can get high even when the ambient temperature in the room is still within Apple's recommended operating range. So, when at the upper end of that range, I might recommend monitoring the battery temperature, particularly when charging. I would recommend the battery temperature during charging not exceed 40 degrees Celsius and the battery temperature during discharge not exceed 45 degrees Celsius.. There are free monitoring apps that can make this information available.
thank you for the advice
hi can you recommend ALDente as a monitoring App! I use it and it says it stops charging the battery after 80%! Is it true ? So I can let plug in the charger always?
@@maho4444 I do recommend it. The app stops battery charging at the level of charge you select. At that point, it has your computer use only the charger power and stops charging the battery. As such, it is safe to leave your laptop plugged in continuously, with no negative impact on the battery.
how did u put ur battery on hold at 80% at 10:36
Like my Mac charges to 100%
idk how to do that
I want my charging to stop at 80% and my Mac run at adapter's power
Or is it ok that my battery remains at 100% and is still plugged In?
Please help
this is "caused" by the Optimize Battery charging , in settings. It does it automatically although it will eventually charge it to 100%, plus it tries to do this based on how you use you Mac , plugged or unplugged during the day, so sometimes it may be a hit or miss. Or if you are really inconsistent during the day.
@@John7No so if i want to make it on hold, i have to purposely unplugged the adapter when it hits 80% ?
@@hanifahsuranggana5907 no not really. The "feature" might be a hit or miss some times.
example: a colleague of mine has her MacBook always plugged. The indicator just sits at 80%. This means that the MacBook decided that it will not go above that limit so it will not cause wear to the battery.
So if you have it always plugged , after a few days you should see the same behavior. to not charge above 80% most of the times.
Having said this, if you are a person that unplugs the laptop, take it with you and working on battery, the "feature" might not hold back since it will try to fully charge your battery when it thinks it is a good time.
Just turn on the optimize charging. Run with it for 3-4 weeks. The just check its behavior and take it from there. You do not have to worry too much :)
@@John7No that sounds really cool, i am a new user of macbook btw, so if i want the hold 80% activated do i have to charged everytime i use my macbook no matter how many % the battery is?
@@hanifahsuranggana5907 you do not have to worry about it. Just enable the Optimize charging option and Mac will do the rest ;)
Hii my macbook air battery is inaccurate. Its always on 100% and it will just automatically shut down when its lowbat. What should I do?
It needs battery replacement sometimes the macbook isn't smart enough to detect that, that's what happened to mine recently and I brought it to the apple's service center and have the battery replaced
Thank for the video. I have an M1 MacBook Air, bought in early 2021. The battery capacity has dropped to 83% after 51 charge cycles. I took it into Apple and they say this is perfectly normal and to go away as it's my fault I'm not using it correctly. It is plugged in a lot of the time, but has always had the optimise battery setting enabled, thouigh it always charges to 100%, despite a variety of use - on and off mains. I think there's a problem here, but Apple don't want to know. Would you agree?
You don’t wanna leave it plugged in! Lol I don’t even shut mine off, stays on sleep mode and I only charge it when needed to 90% only!
I have mi MacBook Air 2020 chip M1 about 3 mouth and the battery status decreased of 100% to 97%, and I hace 13 cicles, I don’t know if this is really bad or is normal. someone can help me please
There are many factors that affect battery health, heat could be one if the cycles are as low as you say, maybe someone in the comments can help if they went through a similar situation
I did not understand the concept, at one place you are saying should not charge it above 80%, and leave it between 20-80%. Next you said, it is ok to keep it connected to power source and software will take care of it. If I keep it plugged, definitely it will charge to 100%? Which one is correct?
Don't worry about this .it's ok to leave your MacBook attached to the charger 90% of the time. Apple battery health management will take care
The 20-80 practice is what he suggests in the video. Keeping it plugged-in is ok as long as "optimised charging" is turned ON. This will pause charging at 80% and the MacBook uses AC power (thus bypassing the battery).
But in my experience with M1 MacBook Air, I think it only happens to pause charging if you regularly keep it plugged-in. I don't keep it plugged-in all the time, so it never paused charging at 80% for me.
@@ashyus Yes that is what I said the confusion still remains. In his reply you can see he says, you can keep it connected 90% of the time. In your answer, you say no need to keep connected. I also, when kept it connected, it charged to 100%. So the answer of this topic should be “we don’t know anything about charging of macbook, charge or discharge as per you knowledge.”
@@ashyus mine too
👍My theory always was that the battery was bypassed on a laptop while being charged but everyone would tell me I was wrong but who knows.
Battery is bypassed on macbooks but keeping it at 100% for too long can still damage the battery
I've read that its more advisable to keep your mba air plugged in while using because the laptop has a circuitry that automatically stops charging the battery but instead uses the power directly. This way, there are less cycle counts.
I did mention this in the video however there is no official confirmation on this and I have even contacted apple about it and they couldn’t confirm so I have no idea, hence why it’s better to be preventative
@@Techkhamun did you get any response so far ?
@@walididrissik1740 no
and what about the first recharge?
some say to discharge it until it turns off and then recharge it to 100% to calibrate the battery.
what do you think?
No, please don't do it.
More than a decade ago, it was in practice. But for current standards, it's not suggested.
The 30%-80% practice is what is theoretically correct.
@@ashyus this is the comment i was looking for! Thanks!
@@rethmarasigan6900 Glad it helped! Very welcome!
@@ashyus Hi, how about shutting it down and charging at same time?
@@ashyus how do u often shutting down ur mcbook?
hii thanks for the video. I have a question, how do you make your macbook only charge up to 80%? I have the optimized charging option enabled, but it always ends up charging up to 100%. I hope you can help me, thank you!!
yes same plz do consider this question
in my case using a macbook m1, during first month of use i maintained almost the same routine of use, and then automatically the mac charged up to 80%, and stop there for a few hours (notifying that it would start to charge completely in the next hours). the following days i sort of changed my routine and the mac returned to charge up to 100% automatically. i think what is all about is to establish a certain routine of use, even if it not exact every time
@@albertouch_ During your first month routine did you charge it 100%??
@@RavinduJayanath I did. At this point the battery was fully charged and the mac was taking energy from the power adapter. After keeping my mac plugged several days, I unplugged it and let the battery drain up to about 30%. Then I plugged it again and it was the time when the mac stopped the battery charge at 80% cause I had the optimized battery option on.
@@albertouch_ How many battery cycles and battery health you got now..?
My 9 month old MBP M1 just dropped to 99% max battery capacity with 97 battery cycle :(
How is that bad? The MacBook Pro can handle 1000 charge cycles, you just done 10% of the charge cycles here a link to understand charge cycles support.apple.com/en-us/HT201585
@@Techkhamun mine finally went to 99% with only 29cc after 8 months of using it. Plugged in most of the time. What I've noticed, battery percentage decreases fast once it dropped down to 99%. Now with 33cc, it instantly went to 96% just a while ago. Probably, it's not the cc that determines your battery health, it's how or how long you've been using it.
This video didnt help at al because the main battery killer isnt really mentioned.
The Mac OS internal battery optimization also doesnt really work well. I mean it can work well, but therefor you have to use the notebook very intense on battery and AC power and really "need" most of the the battery capacity.
With M1 Macs, it changed pretty much and even 80% charge is "too much" for most things! Even if you could keep it always below 80%, the battery would not last much longer. I had a friend always charging to 100% without caring about the battery, used it always a bit and got around 300 charging cycles on it, but his desktop usage and 100% charges literally killed the MacBooks battery within less than 3 years, even broke the trackpad as the battery expanded!
Its necessary to keep the battery as good as possible anywhere between 40 and 60%, this will make it last the longest possible. I am using AlDente and limiting the charge to 70 or 80% always, often im even letting it just go down within a few days and mobile usage, at about 40% i just top it up to 70% again and thats enough for another 2-3 days easily.
Also, fast charging! Especially the 140" brick from the 2021 16" model.... yes its awesome if you need a quick charge, but i use mostly a high quality 65/45+18W combo charger, much better for the battery!
does rosetta affect the battery life of my macbook 14"? hehe
Yes it does
you forgot to talk about "aldente"
the only thing that i could not maintain is keeping charge under 80%
1st because it save me battery cycles
2nd because i use it as a desktop
3rd because i did not accept the only 60% usage when i can get 80
i even feel that the best part is the first 20%
i have my 1month old mba m1 and have a 10 battery cycle. the battery health is already 99, should i be worried?🥵🥵🥵
No 👍🏽
@@Techkhamun thankyou
93% with only 43 cycles on MBP M1, so sad.
Yeah because the Mac OS internal "battery optimization" doesnt work at all as it should, which begins with the fact you cant set charge levels manually!
I would recommend AlDente if you dont use it already. Soon 150 charging cycles and still 99% battery health on a 16" M1 Pro base model.
@@harrison00xXx thanks for commenting
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Based on my personal experience using MacBook/IPhone device(s):
1. Should be charged to 100% on its first charge.
2. On your next succeeding charges, unplug it upon reaching 80-89%.
3. Don’t allow it to to drain below 20%.
4. Right after charging between, 80-89%, power it off and after few seconds then power it on again, you will see that the battery percentage will increase by 4 to 5%.
5. Avoid using your device while charging.
6. Be sure to power it off when not in use before going to bed.
7. Use only Apple authorized charger.
8. Be sure to use your device often and not to leave it dead for many dấys.
9. Remove your case cover when you intend to charge your devices, mainly that it will cause too much heat on the device during charging process.
After practicing these tips, I have maintained a 100% battery health and guess what my MacBook and IPhone are 5 years old already.
1 and 4? wtf?
Thank you so much! I just got my very first macbook m1 and was confused about the charging practices. Should I turn my macbook on while charging it?
I recently had a Surface 8 Pro (amazing device) however the battery life was so abysmal I was constantly caught between a rock and a hard place. I could either use it with high performance settings, 120 refresh, and letting the nearly 3k screen shine, or doing intensive tasks on it and topping out at like 3 hours MAYBE 4, or hindering it, needing to keep battery saver on, 60 hz refresh, low brightness etc and getting maybe 7 hours doing simple web browsing. Coming from that, the long battery life on Macs has been a godsend.
I 100% feel the same! I had to get a surface book for my college engr class and I hadn't used it for more than 2 years and it would last maybe 4 hours on a good day (just doing simple browsing). My mac has been lifesaving
i have intel😭
I'll stop watching now because my mac's battery is now at 21%
Dude you are talking too much just go to the point