With the arrival of macOS Catalina In 2019, those from Cupertino introduced a very interesting function: battery status management. This new function is intended to improve the useful life of a fundamental component in Macbooks and we are going to analyze how to manage it correctly in this post.
Apple has always been characterized by presenting products with a autonomy very good, lasting from sunrise to sunset and their durability over time. However, Apple always seeks to offer the best experience for its users, so the latest software updates have included solutions for continue to care for the battery and prevent it from aging over time. We will see below several ways to care and manage best apple battery
How to activate battery management?
Before activating or modifying some configurations, you have to go to the control panel System settings, where several settings are offered to help you improve the battery life of your Mac notebook. Before going into detail, one of the ways to improve Apple’s battery health management is to determine the maximum and minimum percentage of battery that you can use the equipment. That is, you can determine that the equipment is charged to 80% and turns off when it has 10-15% battery left. From this simple you will lengthen and take care of the useful life of the equipment notoriously.
Next, we will describe the process that every Mac user has to do to access the system settings. The steps are the following:
- In the Apple () menu, click on System Settings. If you have macOS prior to Ventura, you have to click on System Preferences.
- We enter Economizer.
- We see generic battery information
- Click on options
- We activate Manage battery health.
- Click OK.
Optimized charging and Power Nap
The first option which is to activate the “Load Optimized”, which reduces battery wear and tear because your Mac learns from your daily charging habits to charge the battery up to 80% and finish charging before you unplug it from power. This option is very interesting if you have a daily job where you connect your Mac to an external monitor. Over time, macOS determines that at a certain time you deactivate the charger, so a time before it will finish completing its charge up to 100%.
A second option that is important to disable is the option “Activate Power Nap on battery power”. This setting prevents your Mac from checking for email or other updates from iCloud during sleep, which improves standby time. For very powerful teams, a very interesting solution is to activate “Automatically switch graphics mode”. This setting allows MacBook Pro models with multiple graphics processors to automatically switch between them to optimize battery life.
Remember that the battery Macs like all electronic devices, they wear out over time, so the battery will progressively lose the capacities it had in the first months of operation. In the battery of the Mac, it offers up to a thousand charge cycles, from there, the value of these is reduced considerably. Finally, the percentages that Apple grants of its batteries are proportional, so the fundamental thing is the hours of use of the screen and operation when we are using the Mac.
