M4 pro 16 inch battery dying after 6 hours only using safari.

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I doubt that Safari or any other web browser is the problem.

More likely to be power consumed by the display during those 6 hours ... and possibly what you're doing on the web (esp. viewing videos or gaming).

• What activities are you pursuing on the web?
• You can also turn down the brightness of the display (many people run their displays at too high brightness anyway. Set it to automatically adjust brightness.)

Check your battery settings ... "On battery" should be set to Automatic. Also Options > Slightly dim the display on battery. You could also enable Options > Optimize video streaming while on battery.

You said you migrated to your MBPro only 1 week ago. Have you fully charged the battery and has it run through a couple of full discharge & recharge cycles?

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, Third-party Virus scanners, Bit Torrent, or a VPN that you installed yourself. 

You should remove anything of that ilk, and NEVER re-install.

Your screenshot is showing Google docs.

That suggests you may have google Chrome installed, even if you are not currently running Chrome.

That gives you a one-two punch of invasive data harvester, reporting home often, AND in inept data sync-er, searching your files in a very inefficient way, consuming system resources to do nothing worthwhile.

Chrome is particularly resource-intensive because it installs Google which renders your Mac a full time information-harvesting and -uploading "bot" for Google's purposes. Those processes can't be turned off or disabled, even if you quit the Chrome browser. Even without knowing what else is installed on that Mac it is all but assured a multitude of Google's automatically updating virus-like processes are causing your Mac to work overtime.

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Jakubbht wrote: safari as seen in that screenshot safari has an energy impact of 4.5k which is extremely unusual.

Energy Impact is an abstract, not well documented calculation that combines measures of CPU usage, network traffic, disk activity and other unidentified factors into a relative measure; it is not an absolute measure. 4.5K does seem high but at the same time your 12-hour measure of ~35.xx (it's unreadable in your screenshot but clearly only 2 digits) is quite normal, even low.

Have you shut down & restarted your MBPro to see if that resolves the issue?

You ran it for six Hours without plugging it in?

That computer is a battery-CAPABLE device, It is not optimized as a battery-operated device (it is not an iPhone.)

Your computer performs best when connected to AC power, such as the power adapter. It can use the full output of the Power Adapter AND when doing especially challenging work could also freely "borrow" power from the battery. In some cases, even with the power adapter connected, the charged state may decline during very stressful work.

When used only on battery, your computer has no extra cushion of power, and may perform more slowly. However, for ordinary non-stressful tasks this may not be objectionable (possibly not even noticeable.)

In general, you should ALWAYS connect a power source when it is possible to do so, and only run on batteries (which could be somewhat slower) when no power sources are at hand. Modern Macs maintain optimum battery charge levels under program control, and will NEVER over-charge. Connected to Power is NOT necessarily charging.

When you set it down in one place, or set it down for the night, Plug it in. Then you won’t CARE whether it would drain the battery.

As per my other reply, it is not the battery that is the issue but something in the software that got messed up i guess during migration. Safari has an energy usage of 4.5k with only 2 tabs open which is insane. My google slides are also lagging. This only happened when i migrated everything from my m3 pro to my m4 pro. nothing else has been changed to the settings of the device. I was able to use my m3 pro all day plus more without re charging it.

Hi, safari as seen in that screenshot safari has an energy impact of 4.5k which is extremely unusual. It was around 50 on my macbook m3 pro so something has gone wrong with my macbook. I was just wondering if it had happened to anyone else aswell before.

Your argument is really interesting, if what you want to accomplish today is to become a serious system administrator, and spend the next few days debugging instead of doing your important work.

The step you need to take NOW is to plug it in. That puts out the flames and Readers can help you figure out WHY at your leisure.

I can’t tell if you are being condescending with me orrrr… but I can’t do my important work because whenever I want to use any sort of program such as unreal engine while also writing down my work in safari im not able to because safari is using an incredible amount of power and processing, which means any other program is there for not going to work :).

Hi, sadly I’ve done everything and even called senior support who tried to help me delete some caches, I’ve ordered an external SSD so I’m able to reinstall a new MacOs onto the machine and see if that works. The 12hr is 357 so quite high :)

Hi, chrome is actually uninstalled and the only reason google drive is installed is because I was asked to install it by a senior technician over call at apple to see if it helped improve the energy usage instead of using the web app. The issue was actually there way before any google drive app was installed. Thank You

<< whenever I want to use any sort of program such as unreal engine while also writing down my work in safari i'm not able to because safari is using an incredible amount of power and processing, which means any other program is there for not going to work :). >>

You may have been thinking that, but unless you elaborate that concern in detail in your writing, I can't know what your concerns are.

I read that you thought the amount consumed by Safari was large, not that it was debilitating -- until this moment when you actually spelled it out for us.

Also no third party apps like these are installed, also as per my other replies, none of these issues came about on my m3 pro which had exactly the same installation of software as this MacBook.