Very high power consumption after upgrading to macOS Ventura

romaxms wrote:

Hello,

After upgrading my M1 Pro Macbook Pro 16 to macOS Ventura I noticed degraded battery life and increased power consumption.

When I go to Activity Monitor, and check Energy tab, in "12h Energy" column I see very high numbers - Safari has 145, Slack, VSCode and some other apps hove around 20-30 most of the time, and battery life generally, seems to be decreased by at least 50%. If before I was averaging 5% battery per my normal hour of usage, now I average 8% per hour in best case scenario.

Before upgrading to Ventura, on Monterey and Big Sur, highest 12h Energy I saw was 30.

Main culprit seems to be Safari - for which I have disabled all of the extensions, just to make sure, but to no avail.

I tried shutdowns and restarts multiple times, and I have disabled screen time, again no improvements.

What is interesting - that Macbook doesn't seem to be running hot, and when clicking battery icon in menubar, is says "No app using significant energy", even through Activity monitor, and general battery life showing opposite.

Anybody else experiencing same issue with M1 based macs and Ventura?

I'll be very thankful for any tips or suggestions on to how to fix that.

A rule of thumb— if you are near the mains leave it plugged in, if you need the portability then run on battery only.

My battery runtime is low

Get help with your Mac laptop battery - Apple Support

To trouble shoot further you can:

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

—SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Takes a bit longer to get to the login screen, does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, font cache, etc., third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

a reboot will put it back to normal mode.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS