MacBook Air 2017 Heating and Battery Drain

Hi,


I'm using the MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) model. I recently also updated to macOS Catalina. However, I have been facing this issue even before the update.


My laptop keeps to uncomfortably hot temperatures on the top-right around the power button and the thunderbolt port. I've been using the laptop for a year and this is the first time I have faced this issue (it is happening for the past 5-6 days). My battery also is draining significantly faster and laptop drops charge (30% in one hour) while in sleep mode.


Any suggestions on what I could do?


Best,

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 23, 2019 6:56 AM

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Posted on Oct 23, 2019 12:11 PM

First of all, try to simply turn it off and on, if it doesn't help try to reset SMC - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295. If problem still exist maybe there is some program that draining the battery (once i faced such a problem with icloud, it was continuously trying to sync some programs through icloud, so i turned off synchronizing for programs that i don't need to and issue has gone), you can simply check my case by turning off wifi before close the lid and see, if battery draining is gone - something like that is the problem. Also you can use "Activity monitor" to look "Energy" tab for a programs that take too much energy.

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First of all, try to simply turn it off and on, if it doesn't help try to reset SMC - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295. If problem still exist maybe there is some program that draining the battery (once i faced such a problem with icloud, it was continuously trying to sync some programs through icloud, so i turned off synchronizing for programs that i don't need to and issue has gone), you can simply check my case by turning off wifi before close the lid and see, if battery draining is gone - something like that is the problem. Also you can use "Activity monitor" to look "Energy" tab for a programs that take too much energy.

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