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macOS Big Sur’s battery optimization: You can’t do much to tweak laptop settings

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<p>In macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple brought the first part of the existing iOS/iPadOS battery-charging optimization algorithm to Mac laptops with Thunderbolt 3 capability. Instead of always charging your laptop battery to 100 percent and then topping it off whenever it’s plugged in, the 10.15.5 update of Catalina added a Battery Health Management (https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=011881588825642368632:8inyamkqelk&amp;q=https://www.macworld.com/article/3538611/macos-catalina-new-battery-health-management-to-extend-macbook-battery-life.html) checkbox in the Energy Saver preference pane that throttles charging as a battery’s capacity reduces over time. (Many Mac models without Thunderbolt 3 can run Catalina and Big Sur, but they can’t use this improved charging routine.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3602899/macos-big-surs-battery-optimization-you-cant-do-much-to-tweak-laptop-settings.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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