Troubleshooting Unexpected Battery Drain on MacBook Pro M1 Max
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Summary
The article discusses a user's experience with unexpected battery drain issues on their MacBook Pro Silicon M1 Max. The user describes their troubleshooting process, including using terminal commands to analyze power management logs, and mentions creating a tool to help interpret the logs. Despite efforts, the issue persists, highlighting a frustrating technical problem.
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Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I started noticing that the battery drained over night when I left the notebook somewhere, not connected to power.
On MacOS, the terminal command pmset -g log shows the logs related to power management.
This was however only marginally useful. I tried tweaking the settings a
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