Totally normal. It’s the ideal state… took my new M4 some time to get there. It learned that you’re using the Mac unplugged rarely, so it rests the battery at 80% to not stress it. Lithium batteries are unhealthy when kept fully charged for a long time. That’s why people use 3rd party battery management apps, even though the best is to use the built in native battery management system. It’s just take more time until it learns a full charge isn’t always needed. It’ll eventually charge to 100, sometimes discharging itself to 92, then 80, etc. No need to take it to service

As others have said, optimised charging halts charging at 80% to protect the battery and extend its lifespan. You can right click the battery and I (from my poor memory) ask it to charge to 100%.

If like me you leave it connected to power 99% of the time, leave optimised charging on as it cannot hurt.

Also check battery condition in system profiler, or the battery settings.

It is probably optimised charging (assuming you have it plugged in most of the time). Keep an eye on it. It should start charging on its own.

If the charge keeps going down well below 80, have it looked at.

For the growing club of unhappy apple customers I have created this:

https://github.com/etewiah/help_with_apple_support

You can create an issue for any apple tech support problems you encounter and we as a community will work to get it to the attention of apple.

Same issue after Sonoma install. I'm pissed!

I installed Sonoma on my M1 Mac. Had similar experience as Zen 1.

1.) Random Restarts

2.) loss of bluetooth connections

3.) connected external hard drives would randomly unmount, and would not re-mount after re-plugging then in. Only re-booting the Mac would restore mounting, until they would randomly unmount yet again.

And those are just a few of the more persistent.

I have been a mac user since the 1980s. I haven't seen these many issues since the release of OS 9. I put my M1 back onto Ventura. I need a reliable production machine. I may skip Sonoma all together.

I know everything can't be caught though the gold master, but some of these should have definitely been picked up.

I'm having the same problem since updating to Sonoma.

Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020, 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon Pro 5700 8 GB, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

I usually have two hard drives connected. Immediately mounted every time I turned on my computer. Now after updating, one shows up after a couple of minutes and the other one takes 10 - 20 minutes to load. Connected the slow one to Samsung tv (it loaded fine) then reconnected back to iMac and turned it on and it loaded almost immediately but after I shut it down and started it back up it's back to mounting slow.

The external drive that loads fast is a WD Elements 2TB and the slow one is LaCie 4TB.

And Disk Utility doesn't work until both hard drives have mounted. I have done first aid on both. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong the hard drives themselves.

I really regret the update but don't want to downgrade in case it creates even more problems.

14.2:

File permissions broke. Can't save and duplicate a file

A load of file corruption happened that gets picked up by Disk Utility

14.1:

Mail is currently broken. It will stop downloading emails and generating notifications

Photos screensaver sometimes freezes

14.0:

Many files in the Bin don't have a put back option

Corrupt files caused by update

Wallpapers were not working properly. Kept forcing Sonoma Horizon regardless of settings or glitching out in other ways

EDIT: Added which version the bugs were first seen

I also get kernel panics since sonoma update.

Yes. I've tried to rebuild the spotlight index, it took many hours to complete. Once that was done i was able to search the file faster and able to see them properly. Then when i installed the new update, everything was lost. Files not seen and not even able to search them through finder. Then i once again tried to rebuild the spotlight index, It worked. Then i tried to shutdown my macbook. Later when i turned it on, the hard disk issue happened again and file search was back to the old mess. Don't know what to do.

Yes, same here - search produces a crazy amount of results so am not bothering. I hear you with the workflow disruption - it's like a whole cabal of stupid micro glitches that constantly require solving, googling, workarounds etc. I think Apple no longer value their legacy/core customers, they're going all out on widgets and imacs you can juggle, iOS like desktop OS, networking your Apple everything (great for advertisers and data gathering) over form and functionality.

178 days since you posted this comment - I have this issue happening in real time. Did you ever find a workaround or did you downgrade your OS?

Since this thread might be useful several weeks going forward, I'd suggest everyone post their issues or bugs in this format:

• Size, CPU, Model and Year e.g. 13" M2 MacBook Pro 2022
• MacOS version e.g. Sonoma 14.0
• Application(s) and Bugs/Issues e.g. Finder & Spotlight, File Search not working
• Workaround (if any)

Gonna need more context about what you think is wrong? This looks like a streaming issue unless there are more details

How do you get latest macos

I'm using this laptop for a week while my regular Zephyrus G15 (I'm a windows user) gets fixed. I have plenty of newer laptops I could use but I took this 2012 MacBook out of storage for a bit of a challenge. It's been so incredibly usable I don't even feel challenged using this. It's such a machine. i5-3210m in this thing, that's why. It's a 35W CPU not a power saving 15w one like the newer U series Intels

Thanks! I actually found it around a year back but since my Zephyrus G15 is in repair I've pulled this out as a cool 1 week challenge to try and live with the thing. I am SLIGHTLY cheating though. I put in 8GB of RAM and a 512GB Samsung Evo SSD. The thing absolutely flies now. Entirely a CPU bottleneck but since it's an M series i5 it has 35w of power. Not too shabby. Yes it has a CV/DVD but I'm Gen Z and have never touched a CD or DVD in my life :)

I have an old Macbook Late 2011 and the battery health is at 87%. I think this is a good result after so many years of usage.

You shouldn’t have bought another Intel Mac. Sorry but that’s not an upgrade at all😭

The Intel Macs are so cheap. It’s literally worthless because of software support. You can buy a $4,000 intel i9 MacBook Pro for only $600 now. Also MacBook Pro intel toasts your lap under heavy tasks while it stays cooler on a M series Mac without hearing the fan scream at you.

I don't even need to read the comments to know gale force winds are being created from people shaking their head all over the world. If you can still return the 2019 Intel do so immediately and get an M1 Air. Its an incredible machine. I still have a max spec processor 16/512 2019 intel machine and its painful to use compared to my M1 and its even difficult to tell the difference between my M1 and M4 for casual day to day use the M1 is that good. For future reference do about 3 minutes of research before buying a new computer.

Uugghh people buying Intel Macs now just doesn’t make sense to me. M1 would have been minimally more and significantly better.

have you tried resolutions between that low resolution and the default? That seems like the best solution for your problem. The default is too small and 960x600 is too big. You might need to click on “Show all resolutions” to see all of your options.

That Mac OS 15 can be installed…

Probably a reason why it was in there;

• Dual core
• Pre-retina screen
• Chonky
• Soon to be end of life

Wouldn't suggest using it as a daily driver, I think by this point its probably due retirement. Also one of the bullet points above is probably hitting the thing you're waiting for. I'm thinking its the EoL of it.

Open core legacy patcher for the win 👏

.... "for some people" (caveat)

I think the VPN you're using is not letting you use yr wifi. Try to turn yr vpn off and also yr DNS. Then check yr wifi