I did the same while waiting for my Macbook to arrive 😁

i just bought a mac last week and I'm still watching 😅

@@Ram_14 lmaoo 😆

If you bought the M1/M1X, you won't be disappointed!😃

@@Schrodingerscomment Ikr

lol same😂

Dhunnnnnnnn..... Sometimes it scares me tho 😂😂

Omg that’s so relatable... Same here 😂😂

haha same =)))

😅

You're not wrong ... just updated : )

some video said that the mac should be shut down. Because your mac using the power battery.

The M-Series MacBooks never need to be shutdown really unless you’re packing longer term. And they wake instantly when you open the lid.. pretty cool coming from windows to that.

shut up grandpa

Same. I’ve had experienced this after the MBP had not been shut for a long time.

so you mean we should shut down our Mac every time we done using it?

1 year and half is a lot! I think once every couple of months is the best choice or after a big update

Yeah I also only shut down my mac when something is not working

That might be a new record...personally I shut mine down if I'm not using it in the next 24 hours. I'll also restart every few days (but otherwise I just put it to sleep).

some people are genius without knowing it

ROFL I was thinking the same!

@@MLJenkins LMAO same!

haha same here

🤣🤣🤣🤣 facts

@@AlexJ1333 if your that broke js get a 2015 macbook they are only 300.

@@6xub.where? Is it new?

@@acertainsoundNo they aren’t manufactured from apple anymore. Can buy refurbished from lots of places tho for very good price

@@mofstar8683 well how do we know if we’re truly getting apple hardware when they’re not Apple manufactured?

i agree. I never turn my iMac 2015 off ever and its been treating me good. Only time it powers off its when we have blackout for 5 min and power goes out in the area. haha. Makes sense that it does maintenance while its on. I will keep my Macbooks on too if i am using them day to day. Not monthly or quarter of the year.

Same! Haha we need to know more 😂

Yes

Wait, do windows PC's still need to be shut down daily?

Same here!!! Coming from a Windows 7 where things seem to become a mess once a series of multiple heavy work load messes the computer.😂

@@SalawuIbrahim windows sucks

I might make one on my second channel as it's not technically "tech" related.

I only shut down mine when I know I won’t use it for a while (1-2 months) or restart it for an update.

Glad to hear that you will make a video about leaving Mac or not in charger. I’m looking for some info about it and there is a lot different answers. Someone said that leaving in charger is best option for battery ( because you will have less cycles on battery), some people said that best option is to charge laptop from 30% to 80% and wait for discharge to 30% and again put Mac to charger I’m really confused about this

@@CreatedTech Mainly i am a struggler and as i would be self purchasing it and its something i never did before...i want to atleast keep the laptop for 9 to 10 years on that basis i asked which variant might be best ? 16/256 8/256 8/512 or 16/512

@@CreatedTech @Created Labs Mainly i am a struggler and as i would be self purchasing it and its something i never did before...i want to atleast keep the laptop for 9 to 10 years on that basis i asked which variant might be best ? 16/256 8/256 8/512 or 16/512

hello! any tips on how you save storage on your macbook? do you have an external SSD or HDD?

Hhhh

lol... i'd like to see that... or at least imagine it. There is not enough break aways from tech... It anyone can not take a phone on vacation with them and STILL come back happy, then you've convinced me.

How old is your macbook now? And is it still working well?

@@jakedm5893 i have a 2014 macbook pro and it still works like a new macbook!

wont it just waste battery ?

You still don’t have any real data to support this. There is no hard evidence that shutting down your Mac causes any harm to the components. This has been debated since the pc and max first came out.

mac now is arm like smartphone so using it like smartphone is best option

@@ekasism my gf do same tips like this, and she's go to repairshop twice

@@ekasism "I was told by support to not do that" 😂, they were designed to sleep, stop spamming the comment section

There's something in settings that you can turn off so your laptop doesn't do anything while sleeping

@@junkdnareviews2515 I tried everything but it still drains battery when the wifi is turned on during sleep.

This is coming from a either a sleep setting that was unchecked called something like “allow hard drive to sleep’ you can find this in the power management settings make sure the box is checked or the issue comes from background apps such as the ones that live in your Mac toolbar. Like a CPU monitoring app or system apps you have added to your Mac that add extra functionality. Try quitting some of those apps one at a time until you find the culprit. Also Google Chrome will absolutely drain your battery during sleep since it is always running in the background so if you use chrome look for an alternative such as Vivaldi or Brave. I hope this helps.

Same. I only put it on sleep mode like a phone if not in used.

I almost never shut down my macbook pro 2012 only when install a software or update that require me to restart

Same! and surprisingly enoughh, the battery on M1 runs 3-4 days even if I never ever shut it down.

​@@imdyinginside1919 So how does your MacBook perform now?

Just got an m1 pro. Will sleep drain the battery? I don’t want to let it die

Ikr, this channel is so underrated!

U should leave it plugged in as often as you can actually:)

@@FenoLP Leaving your battery plugged into a charger 24/7 will cause your battery to degrade faster. This is basic li-ion behaviour. I will talk about this more in depth in a future video.

​@@CreatedTech How about plugging it in while using it? Is it true that keeping the cycle count low preserves the battery of MBA M1? Hope to hear from you soon! Cheers from Philippines!

@@CreatedTech but mac laptops have Li-Polymer batteries. isn’t there a difference?

ok, this comment was extremely helpful. I must have missed the part where he recommended unplugging before putting it to sleep.

Windows messes up a lot of things though. Linux is as stable as always.

The advice with Windows has always been to shut down. First because Windows is notoriously bad at memory management and flushing the RAM regularly saves issues. Secondly, in a corporate environment, managed software updates only occur when the PC is restarted.

does this apply to windows laptops?

That’s what i do. I have a schedule set up for 12am to shut it down if i forget to.

@@outofnowhere9915 yeah. You should shut down every night

@@doom6787 No, you don't have to. I often put my Windows PC to sleep overnight if I know I'll be using it in the morning. If I'm not using it in the next 12-24 hours, I shut it down.

I shut down my windows as well but only because its in my bedroom and the fans are way too loud. but with and m1 macbook air this isnt a problem at all since it has no fans

It's literally the second day I googled about this when got my first Mac

Me too . I'm also a new user of mac. Fortunately i always put my mac to sleep

What was the answer

Where was this video when I first bought a Mac? Now I have to get a new one 😫Thanks for this info

Rare to find. Heaven.

wait, so did u shut it down per 3 months (roughly) during the years??

Kyle B yes, i mean sometimes the battery would just die when i was at college, but when i was at home i almost never turn it off, just when i needed to restart for some app. Also the battery has like 1800 cycles but doesn’t seem damage at all.

@@jesuscoronado642 thank u for the reply!! This helps some tips to experiment on the battery hhe

I have a MacBook Pro from 2012 used every weeks days to work on photoshop, only professional use. Shutting down everyday. Still working perfectly. Didn’t know that it should do anything despite saving electricity. I just order the new M1 MacBook because of software compatibility issues. (Not received yet) . That said. It doesn’t change what’s explained on that KZfaq video or that it isn’t relevant. But just to give an other fact/perspective on the matter.

Anabelle DM great to know, overall that laptop was truly well build i guess, but I’ve seen cases where some have got battery problems, not fully charging or even having a battery bump after a few years, so I thought maybe I didn’t go through that because I rarely turn it off or drain the full battery.

Right... Memory Leakage

All the same downsides apply to rebooting Windows. But. Windows can’t really function well if left on for more than a day or two. Windows 10 is a bit better, it seems fine for 2 or 3 days. So the tradeoffs are different.

The daily reboot is from the time of Windows XP. I use Windows 10 for weeks without a reboot, only sleep and no problems of any kind...

Weird, I sometimes run my Windows desktop for months without shutting down. My work laptop with windows I restart every 5 to 6 weeks because I am forced to by updates.

windows have something called fast startup. pretty sure it has different ways it runs

lol me too😂😂

Is it perhaps shuffling around data to reduce wear on a overused sectors? SSDs are designed to do that. Didn’t know it happened in sleep mode though.

I think most of the advise he gave were not applicable always

When I've finished using my M2 MacBook Air, I plug in the charger, when light is green, I unplug then go to bed. I have the fast charger, and so far when I go back on the Mac next evening, it's fully charged. So, far in sleep mode, I'm not loosing battery life. When I shut down the laptop, messed up KZfaq, with blank boxes with no text. Had to do a restart on my Mac. I guess for me, I don't used it as long as you do, to have the battery completely drain.

Yeah i don’t get this new thing either ...

It's the same as with all lithium-ion battery powered devices. Charges lower than 20% and higher than 80% (as a rule of thumb) cause chemical reactions that cannot be undone in the battery, causing a lower lifetime. Therefore, a lot of devices (such as my HP laptop) have a setting to make charging stop at 80% so you can leave it on the charger while working. That is ultimately the perfect option because it also eliminates the charging/discharging between 20 and 80 percent, although this causes less degradation than the aforementioned chemical reactions. I think there might be software available for Macs that also makes charging stop around 80%. I'm quite surprised that Apple doesn't include that option natively.

@@ijsbert6174 Actually, we have the battery health management system in our latest os on MAC, but it is not explained very well and hard to understand what it actually does. )

@@Leinsterbaby The battery health functionalities introduced in macOS 10.15 try to learn how you use your device. If you use it for long times without charging and briefly charge it in between, it will quick charge the battery to make sure you won't run out of power. If you leave it plugged in most of the time, it will charge the battery slowly, which reduces wear compared to quick charging. Maybe it will reduce the maximum charge if it learns that you never need it for long without plugging it in, but I'm not sure.

@@ijsbert6174 well with lockdowns, it's mostly on my desk, and rarely on battery and it likes to discharge itself till about 80% even if it was full, which is why it confuses me, where is the 20% going! :)

I do, my mac has terrible problems with the battery and temperature. It's a 2018 MBP. When I put it to sleep, it never sleeps and keep running things in the background and getting warm, sometimes it turns on during the night and it wakes me up. Sometimes I hard turn it off due the rage for being wake up by the bright screen.

@@PedroPauloAmorim bro that’s not mac, that’s a demon!

@@PedroPauloAmorim I feel so sorry for Macbook 2016-2019 owners, these were prolly the worst years for this computer.

meow

when i bought mine and was going to just close it one of the guy said "oh nonono u should always shut it down before you close it that way it doesnt have to stop doing something and suddenly get cut off and can just power down instead" and now im realizing how stupid that sounds lol. i thought i was being a good owner until my mac started getting slow and started questioning things lmao

Apple, who sells computers can't really explain on a website, yet a KZfaqr is more helpful lol. I like it :D

I shut down my iphone every time I go to sleep......But I am probably among the minority, haha

I would like to know about this too!

I try to reduce the processor load as much as possible when I put the comp to sleep overnight. Closing apps definitely achieves that. If you have too many apps and windows open the fan will continue to spin even when the comp is asleep - definitely not a good outcome for computer longevity or your electricity bill.

@@sirrathersplendid4825 i practice only leaving few apps opened (mail/messages/finder) before putting my MBA to sleep. So far I don’t see any significant impact on battery drain. Might be a different story if I leave every app opened then put it to sleep, but my conscience won’t allow me. 😅

i have the same question.

I for many times would use my mbp m1 out from sleeve on sleep mode! I’m surprised the battery hadn’t drained. And yes, no heat generated.

Problem with my old MacBook was that if you had too much stuff open when you put it to sleep the fan might stay on. And in extreme cases (or possibly as a result if a software fault) the HD would continue spinning. Occasionally when I made sudden turns I could actually hear and feel the angular momentum of the spinning HD resisting the turn. Clearly not a clever thing to do!

Inside anything shut it down. It can still generate heat believe it or not I figured this out with a new m1 mbp. While taking it to work in my backpack. Anyone saying it doesn't make heat hasn't seen how hot I have had it get in just my backpack

Stop using chrome on macs

@@mayorplayz I know but the observation still holds

@@mayorplayz why? Im curious. I use it because I do too on my Win PC and settings/bookmarks are updating on both if I change it on one system. But I also could just use something else if there is a benefit? Safari is just less powerdraw and more optimized I would guess?

@@TeNou7 way less power draw and memory intensive on mac, chrome eats memory

Thank you to you

Man this comment should get more likes isn't it?!

if your energy settings are standard, your mac should start to sleep on its own after some time of inactivity. You can check that in the system preferences, and even customize things

My Rose Gold M1 MacBook Air is by far the best computer I have ever used.

@@RickLomas Does the rose gold colour look comfortable in comparison to seeing space grey, silver or white mac

@@Sndbest Not sure what you mean by 'comfortable' - I guess you mean not distracting while you are using it. If so, yes, I'm really pleased I chose that colour, it's really really nice.

Best to plug it in overnight. Then it’s fully charged when you need to make an unexpected trip. Used to be that the battery was only good for a set number of ‘cycles’ so allowing it to deplete was wearing it unnecessarily. Don’t know how the newer batteries work, though - they may be different. If the battery dies while in sleep mode you may lose any unsaved data, though I believe newer OSs have auto-save features that should prevent that.

@@sirrathersplendid4825 the comment is old, but: The battery's want to be used. Used as in decharged(used) and charged. If you want your devices to live as long as possible, you'll use them fairly regularly and charge them from ~10-90%. Electric battery's also have that limit. You can't fully charge their battery and you can't fully drain them, even if it's shown as full or empty. That prolongues their life.

HDD in any laptop should be shut down. Otherwise pick up a cheap ssd for that thang.

Mac mini must be shut down as it doesn't have a power reserve so voltage variations from the grid can damage the hardware as with any Instant-on device.

@@4rzaluz I actually went back to shutting it down daily since I’m gone for 14 daily

me too

There is another factor - dirty air. In an ideal world, if your environment is perfectly clean then it’s fine but keeping your Mac running with dirty air isn’t too good. Also when it’s more humid than normal etc. this is theoretical, and I’d like to be corrected if I’ve got it wrong.

@@HominisLupis new M1 Air doesn't have any physical fans bro. It doesn't push out the heat from processes neither suck in any fresh air. Heat of M1 processor passes through the metal conduction and it works perfectly fine. Like how it works in an iPad.

@@dontstopwhenuaretiredstopw3265 the pro's do have fans and they do move air.

Don't go intel, just run it through parallels (virtualization)

@@zacsoldaat754 Thanks for your advice, but my original comment was made 9 months ago I had since purchased a reconditioned Mac Mini with OS10.14 Mohave which I was told would be the newest version of X that could run my old Adobe software. To my blessed surprise, the retailer that supplied my reconditioned MM also loaded every Adobe CS6 graphics application available for print & web. Don't know if they did that or if the previous owner of the Mini left everything he had on it when the retailer acquired the machine. I still have my original software discs for CS3 but Adobe was never going to give me access codes for old software they no longer support. I'm retired so I no longer need the latest and greatest. I'm fine with these versions.

I use a 2011 MBP and shutdown most nights. It seems to use 5 -10% charge after 12 hours in sleep. Mine still has original battery (10+ years now) which has done 2681charge cycles, still delivers 12005 mV, and holds 3349 mAh on a full charge (3 or 4 hours in normal use if I don't plug it in). For what it's worth, I usually run it with the power cord regardless of charge % and shut it down daily (often several times just to enjoy the 18 second boot). I use it most days for several hours (I would guess 5 hours minimum) and have done daily for 10 years. Battery stats can be read by: apple menu>About this Mac>System Report>Power>Battery.

Check the battery status. Probably you'll need to replace it.

@@latlov Battery status is determined by % of the current maximum charge capacity compared to the capacity of the battery when new and/or cycle count. Mine cannot be charged to more than 60% original rating and is more than twice over it's rated lifetime of 1000 cycles, so unsurprisingly, my top-menu battery status says "replace soon" (and has done for years). The message has no meaning above what I already know. When it dies, it will die. If I took any notice of meaningless status messages, I'd have replaced it with probaby 4 or 5 cheap ones over the years by now. I have no intention of changing it until it dies, and would be foolish to even consider it.

some old macbooks, in my experience, do a pretty significant drain on the battery charge after e.g. a 12hr sleep mode session.

I just got the new MacBook Pro with m2. You're saying that I shouldn't plug it in to charge while it's in sleep mode? and that would mean only charging it while in use, or after it's completely shutdown? If so, it would need to be shutdown more often than every few weeks as stated in the video. I am completely new to MacBooks and everything I thought I knew about computers in general has gone out the window in the last 12 hours lol.

@@MyHam-os4bq i’m getting mine next week and am also very lost like you were. were you able to answer your questions yourself? and would you mind sharing them with me? hahah

@@cynamon_ so the basic rules I go by is to try and make sure I only charge it while I’m actively using it. This is supposed to be the best charging method, according to videos and sources like these. I don’t really shutdown my MacBook every day, unless I know I’m not going to be using it for a couple of days or I’m completely finished with whatever programs I have running for the time being. I have noticed that it will automatically restart while in sleep mode sometimes, probably after it’s just installed an update so I don’t ever keep it on the charger while it’s on sleep mode (that’s apparently where problems can happen.) It hasn’t been as complicated as it probably sounds. If the battery is below 25%, I’ll charge while I’m using it until it’s between 50-75% charged. If I’m going to pick up where I left off tomorrow with the same work and programs I have running today, I’ll just leave it in sleep mode. If I won’t be using it for a day or two I’ll just shutdown. I shutdown probably once a week, for the weekends. So far, it’s running just as smoothly as day 1 and I feel pretty confident that I’m caring for it to the best of my ability. I’m no expert tho, so this is all going by what I’ve researched and what seems to keep it running smoothly.

@@MyHam-os4bq ohh okay, thank you so much for the reply!

@@MyHam-os4bqthank you ! I’m getting my Mac next week

Your battery wears out every time it expands (charging on AC) and contracts (discharging unplugged). Every lithium ion battery has a finite life span measured in charge cycles. According to Apple, a charge cycle is equal to 100 percent of the battery capacity being discharged. This definition doesn't just mean when the battery reach from 100 percent to 0 percent; it can start from any percentage. For example your battery can start at 75 percent and reach 0 then charged back to 100 percent and 25 percent of that 100 can be counted towards the a full charge cycle. Every charge cycle will slowly wear down the battery. That being said from my personal and professional IT experience with dealing with many laptops and phones, the best practice to minimize the frequency of the number of times your laptop plugs into the wall. The wear of your battery is caused during expansion and contraction. When your laptop is near 100 percent and plugged into the wall, it will behave like a traditional computer and will draw current straight from the AC adapter. This good for battery since there will be little strain on your battery when your laptop is in use. The worst situation is when your battery is low and charging while your CPU is under high load. Your laptop needs push a high amount of current to your CPU which cause your laptop be get hot. Some of that heat from your CPU will affect your battery which also drawing current and getting hot. Heat is really bad for the lifespan of your battery. According to your Apple, fast charging happen between 0-80 percent then slow charging happens at 81-100 percent. I would recommend if you are doing something CPU intensive like encoding video then do it during the slow charging phase (80-100 percent). www.apple.com/batteries/why-lithium-ion/