After those features launched, Apple got a lot of feedback that people didn’t understand where their documents were going when they tried to sync multiple desktops to one iCloud account. We’d like to see more options in System Preferences > Energy Saver to dial back iCloud network activity when you’re not plugged into power, but the goal, after all, is to have data sync across devices as instantly as possible.Īlso improved are the setup experience for unlocking your Mac with your Apple Watch (something that frankly seems way too fiddly now that unlocking a MacBook Pro with Touch ID is near instant), as well as alerts around iCloud desktop and document sync. We’ll keep looking into this, but so far Apple’s reasoning does make sense-even if we’ll miss the time-remaining estimate.Īpple’s new update should also communicate better the kind of background activity that might affect your battery life. Even when pushing the AMD GPU in the 15-inch version, we saw the time-remaining estimate plummet to between three and four hours, and then just kind of stay there, but the Mac itself kept trucking for a full workday regardless.Ĭommenters on our Facebook page have reported battery life in the 3–4 hour range, but so far it’s unclear if those reports are based on unreliable time-remaining estimates, or if those users’ Macs really did clunk out after just a few hours. We haven’t been able to replicate the battery issues on the 13- or 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models we have in the office. Our experience at Macworld HQ backs it up. As your processor switches between power states, the time-remaining calculation will keep changing, and any one glance at it just isn’t an accurate picture. Background tasks can affect battery life significantly, and some, like reindexing Spotlight, syncing iCloud data, or performing facial recognition on your photo library, can stretch on for hours or days when you’re first setting them up (say, on a brand-new MacBook Pro). The time remaining can be misleading, since it’s calculated dynamically based on what the Mac is doing that very second.
The reasons for this change boil down this: the percentage is just more accurate.
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