What to do with the Mac that either won’t go to sleep at all, or keeps waking up and discharging its battery? It’s pmset or Sleep Aid.
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Does your M1 Mac run more slowly when it’s on battery power, or with Low Power mode enabled? An exploration of effects on its CPU cores provides an unexpected answer.
On Intel Macs, resetting the SMC was a universal panacea until the T2 came along. What can we do instead with an M1 Mac?
Charging policy has changed recently for batteries in Apple’s laptops, and iOS/iPadOS devices. Your battery might also be too warm. How to check and what to do.
Full details of the new battery health management feature in 10.15.5, and how to monitor battery health.
Apple recommends an unusual procedure to fix this, which might also work with other models suffering sudden shutdowns.
Apple has announced a battery recall programme for some MacBook Pro 15-inch models which were sold mainly between […]
Stepping through key points in the log as Mojave 10.14 starts up. Most of the key waypoints are similar to those in High Sierra.
Patchy mobile signal coverage is a sure way to flatten your iPhone or iPad battery very quickly. There must be a better solution than Airplane mode.
Despite its documentation vanishing, it’s clear that GCD does a lot more than provide an easy way to concurrency for app developers.
The Eclectic Light Company 