AlDente Pro has features called “Stop charging when sleeping” and “Stop charging when powered off” to counteract this behavior.ĪlDente has a free version, $14/year subscription version, and a $29 lifetime license version (it does not say if you get free updates for life or if you have the rebuy it each time). Therefore, it will continue to charge to 100% when you close the lid or shut it down. AlDente Pro has a feature called Calibration Mode ( ), which will automatically do a full cycle when started.ĪlDente Free can not control the charging behavior of your MacBook while it is in sleep or shut down. Even if your battery calibration gets disturbed, doing 4-5 full cycles will recalibrate your battery and the capacity will go up again. To avoid this issue, we recommend doing at least one full cycle (0%-100%) every two weeks. However, this is only due to a disturbed battery calibration and not because of a faulty or degraded battery. When this happens, your Macbook might turn off with 40-50% left or it will stay at 100% for hours, and your battery capacity can drop significantly. Keeping your battery at a lower percentage, such as under 80%, over weeks without doing full cycles (100%-0%-100%) can result in a disturbed battery calibration. MacBooks are portable devices but if you use your MacBook in your office plugged in, it is better to just limit charging to a healthy percentage than to cycle between a certain range. However, this does not mean that you should not use your MacBook remotely. This is due to even reasonable charge cycling adding a lot of charge cycles which results in more and faster battery degradation over time than just using the MacBook plugged in at a healthy percentage. Unlike the common belief, it is actually way more unhealthy for a battery to always get cycled between a reasonable range (for example between 30% and 70%) than to just stay at a healthy percentage (for example 80%). If it doesn't then I will probably get AlDente. I think I will wait until my MBP is 2-3 weeks old and see if the Optimized Battery Charging kicks in and starts working. Thank you for the info and personal experience. One had 100% battery condition and the other 98%. I have sold my original two M1 MBAs at 25 months and 18 months of being plugged in nearly all the time. It may be that in Ventura it works but I would still go with AlDente. I have put AlDente straight on to three new macs I have had since then because of the extra control and certainty about what was actually happening. So I switched to AlDente and never looked back. It is a shame that yet more Apple software is buggy and does not get fixed. Others though say it eventually started to work for them. Yes, I have read a few times in various places people complain that the Optimized Battery Chargingnever starts to work properly. I believe it can take a few weeks to learn, but I gave it two months on my M1 MBA running Big Sur at the time, and it never worked for me with the Mac plugged in nearly all the time.
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