What you need to do is manually tell it to charge to full before taking it off charge if you need more battery capacity. If it was one of the newer machines with the optimized battery charging option in system preferences, chances are the battery discharged quickly because it was holding charge at a lower amount to maintain battery health.As an extreme example, a 5 year old Intel Air running Photoshop at max brightness is going to have significantly shorter battery life than a brand new M2 Air being used for basic web browsing. What MacBook Air model was it, how old was it, and what were you using it for? Usually when people complain about fast discharge its because of how they're using it or the computer is old. Battery discharged quickly when taking it off charge.Constantly cycling the battery by trying to keep it between 40% and 80% is much worse for the battery. Yes, that's why even if you leave it plugged in, optimized battery charging will hold it at a lower capacity and then discharge and recharge as needed to maintain overall health. Not using the battery for long periods of time is bad for the battery.It only takes about a couple of days use for optimized battery charging to start changing charging patterns to match your use. There's a lot of incorrect misconceptions to unpack in your post: I’ve just officially plugged it in, though I’m not using it today at all, and set it up so that the cord goes through the intended hole in the desk and won’t have to be unplugged or moved unless I’m going to take the laptop and use it as a laptop! Thank you, again! I’ve always had optimized charging on, but for some reason didn’t quite understand how to best utilize it, and was still unplugging it at the end of each work day, since switching it to my daily work driver. I just recently switched to using my M1 MBA full time for work, connected to my 27” monitor and open so the MBA display can also be used as an extended monitor. For some reason, this piece of information was what I’d always been missing and was therefor what made me anxious.įor the past year, I only used my MacBook for my music/video hobbies, surfing the web, steaming and other personal things, so it was always on the side of my desk opposite my work setup and I plugged it in when it needed to be charged (every two-ish days), since the only convenient outlet made it so the charging cord ran behind my chair when in use. I wanted to thank you for explaining what likely seems common sense, to most people, regarding the MacBook only using power from the outlet when plugged in/on optimized battery charging.
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