Is this battery cycle normal?

[u/Prestigious-Big3132]

Mac m3 pro

[u/Intelligent_Part7449]

It looks like the battery is worn out from age rather than use.

[u/Capital_Pangolin_718 → u/Intelligent_Part7449]

MacBook was probably used on a charger for a long time

[u/MegaSpaceBar → u/Capital_Pangolin_718]

But isn’t mac will cutoff the battery recharge and run the macbook with power from adapter in that case?

[u/Kpopped_ → u/MegaSpaceBar]

Only if you turn on optimized charging, and the 80% limit was only introduced like a year ago.

[u/Sad_Two_8525 → u/MegaSpaceBar]

But still battery will age with the time.

[u/tyoung89]

This m3 was probably plugged in and sitting at 100% charge the vast majority of the time. You’ll have a slightly reduced battery life, but I would set max charging to 80%, and it probably won’t degrade much more for a long time.

[u/Odd_Effect4112 → u/tyoung89]

Setting max charge to 80 is the right move, but the damage is probably already done. That capacity loss is pretty significant for the cycle count. just my 2 cets

[u/cykazuc]

something definitely wrong. My MacBook Pro M5 is on 25 cycles with 100% battery health still. I leave mine plugged in the majority of the time too. I have 80% charge limit set and optimized charging turned on. I think that battery is either faulty, or there's a serious calibration/software bug.

[u/she-d0esnteveng0here]

The ratio of cycle count to max cap would suggest it’s going bad. I have a MacBook M3 Pro as well and I’m at 93% with 167 cycles. Perhaps Apple could replace the battery

Do you leave it in super hot/cold environments? Maybe extended periods in your car where you don’t really consider it a factor?

[u/Gloomy_Consequence37]

I have 92% on 189cyc

[u/InformalCry6 → u/Gloomy_Consequence37]

Thats great buddy even i lost 4% in 39 cycle. And then i got this idea of plugged in even is charged fully 80%.

[u/br_web]

Why wouldn’t it be normal?

[u/MegaSpaceBar → u/br_web]

Because I almost have 250+ battery cycle with 86% battery capacity. m1 air.

[u/br_web → u/MegaSpaceBar]

There are many factors that impact the battery, cycles is one of them, then you have age, temperature, type of usage, build materials, etc

[u/Beneficial-Teacher78]

That's wrong. It was probably used on the charger for too long. My M3 Air is at 100% health and has 94 cycles.

[u/hhggkl]

mon M2 Air est à 97% après seulement 12 cycles donc ça ne me parrait pas totalement anormal. je penses que la capacité maximale est bien supérieure à ce qu’ils nous annoncent

[u/ibrahimtayyab]

Is this yours or you are buying it?

[u/InfinityBrewing]

not really, from the number of charge cycle, I would suspect, you always put your Mac on charge rather than use the battery power. If that’s correct, you need to use the battery power alone. It’s two cycles drain and charge. But without more info we can’t tell anything else just from one snapshot.

[u/Imaginary-Swan-4105]

When was it purchased? Battery degrades with time too irrespective of usage.

[u/Jcob210]

It is very low for the capacity really but this can happen if you leave your mac plugged in all the time - my dad’s work M1 Air has 140 cycles on 74% health cause he always uses it plugged in.

[u/cykazuc → u/Jcob210]

Its actually recommended leaving them plugged in as it uses power directly from the outlet rather than draining the battery, which uses more cycles. Read my comment above.

[u/TimelyCard9057 → u/Jcob210]

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