unplug your MacBooks. 

just checked my battery... "SERVICE RECCOMMENDED ⚠"

My M1 MacBook Air is currently at 99 % battery capacity after almost two and a half years of use (most of which it had been plugged in since it’s only racked up 34 cycles during that time). I’d say Al Dente is doing its job well.

I've used alDente my M1 max 16" since i got it. 70% cap, almost never filled it to 100%. Now, more than a year later, i have 88% battery health. To be honest, i don't think AlDente did anything at all.

That goes for any laptop really. I would only plug it in while doing hard tasks. Then unplug when I’m not using it.

literally most underrated RU-vidr ever. honestly so good please keep making content forever its amazing👑

battery degradation happens in many years (of course depends on usage/day, but still.). The 80% setting is useful only if you don't bring your laptop outside or if you're 100% sure that you'll have an outlet where you're going No, inflated batteries are not common and still, they don't explode, 99% of the batteries just degrade in years and years to come, and since people seem to be changing hardware between 3 to 5 years at most, it won't effect you, ever. So use those tips if you want to preserve it to the fullest and charge more when selling it second hand (or take those tips into consideration when buying used and set aside a portion of the budget for battery replacement ), either way just use it. The engineers that created it had charging in mind, that's not like they don't know about battery degradation.

Mine is plugged into a thunderbolt dock during use, and unplugged when not

Why am I watching this I don’t own a MacBook

WHAT THE FUCK you only have 806 subscribers? I felt like I was watching a fucking movie lmfaoooo thats insane the editing the pacing and everything im amazed

Leaving it plugged in draws power directly from the wall rather than going through the battery 😊😌

Bro needs more subs for real.

and when using aldente , it discharge battery by itself, i think it is bad for battery cycle count

Thank you so much!

TY!

I don't trust the battery health indicator. I rather check the cycles, through system information, or iOS analytics.

for years i had connected the macbook and the battery expanded after like 5,6 years, and they changed it for free in some replace program, i also wrote about this topic on official apple forum and everyone wa like yeah sure let it be connected nonstop, it will have the smart charging and stop using battery when on full and plugged to power source

You missed the part where you tell that your mac discharges 2 percent everytime you reach 100% alltho its pluged in

Cool Video! Although in theory it makes sense, I believe its debatable if Aldente makes much of a difference. I have my macbook for 1 year now and its plugged in almost all of the time with aldente holding it at 70-80% charge. I have 65 cycles which isnt great I would say but I dont know for sure because I have nothing to compare it too. Someone has to record a test to rule it out once and for all.

As an electrical engineer I can approve that most of this video is BS and has no merit whatsoever. As long as you dont fully charge your battery and let it sit for the next year, you will put a negligible amount of wear by leaving your laptop fully charged a lot of the time. I miss the days when technical topics where left to the professionals and not some college kid who googles a few random things.

Isn’t it better to have less battery cycles..?

Very good video, funny and instructive ;) you just gain a subscriber ;)

A weird thing happened to me after using Aldente for a while. I had 100% health for about 7 months, then I installed aldente and after a month and a half of using it I checked the health again and it had dropped to 93%! I was confused and stopped using it. 5 months have passed since and the reported health is still 93! Could aldente have tricked the mac into thinking its battery got worse? Anybody else experienced this?

very unique channel! You get a sub :)

My Razer blade 17 has a limiter to not charge above 50% ever.

New upload :D

Apple and other OEMs already have charging cut off built-in, in this day and age. Li-Ion batteries do not swell from overcharging, this has already been taken care of years ago otherwise we would all have swollen machines. Instead, battery health tends to degrade faster from heat. When plugged in, the device works off of AC power and the battery is not used. But when also using your device on AC power, the device can operate faster and this produces heat (less so on the Apple Silicon, but a lot more back on Intel Macs). This heat seriously affects battery health. Generally it is good idea to charge between the 20-80% window, but it is strictly not a problem these days. Trickle down charging is also a thing.

It is completely safe to leave it plugged in, MacOS regularly discharges it at 100% when plugged in. Also it puts charging on hold if you charge it regularly there’s no need to worry about leaving it plugged in all the time it manages it.

Honestly, Apples optimisation seems pretty solid. It bleeds charge to about 80% for 7 hours while I'm sleeping, then it charges to 100% at around 6am so when i wake up it's only had 100% for a few hours I guess AlDente is good for users who often keep it plugged in

plugged in is fine, it switches to using from the plug when its at 100%

“Macbooks are still as powerful as when plugged into a charger, even when you remove the charger. Windows on the other hand, literally kills itself the second you unplug your laptop.”

The video on which this advice is based on, is a MYTH. Lithium Ion batteries have inside them a battery management system (BMS). This combined with the charging circuitry in your laptop do not let the battery overcharge anytime, and it pretty much uses raw power from the charger preventing wastage of battery charge cycles. If you constantly keep it unplugged at 80% and plugged at 20%, meaning you get only 60% of juice while being mobile, and the even greater impact is that it deteriorates your battery by wearing out the charge cycles of the poor battery. So majority of electronic engineers and battery experts will advice to no harm in keeping the charger plugged in, and only leave the charger disconnected when being mobile.

While it’s true that 20-80% is the sweet spot, new MacBooks will run directly on the charger when plugged in, which limits the number of charge cycles the battery goes through. It is ultimately better to be plugged in using no battery than constantly discharging and recharging to 80%

This is just a lie… it’s only bad to completely discharge batteries modern technology has circuitry that stops charging at 100

I’d actually argue it’s probably better to keep it plugged in all the time depending on your use case. Once it hits 100% your MacBook switches it’s power source to the power adapter directly. I often use mine as a desktop and work on intensive tasks with the lid closed and plugged into power. my cycle count is extremely low for how much I’ve used it since it’s using the power adapter most of the time. I’d probably have triple the count otherwise.

I love your content! But I’d like to say that nowadays this issue is not as bad as it was before. As per multiple reports, Aldente fries the battery much faster than the Optimized Battery Charging. And my experience is that macOS is actually pretty smart when it comes to battery health. I have my laptop plugged in 24/7 and what macOS does is it let’s MacBook discharge to 80% and keeps it at that level, powering laptop directly from the cable (this is important). Then, once in a while it allows battery to discharge even more (to 65-70%), and then charges it back to 80%. After 1.5 years of my laptop plugged in I’ve had 60 battery cycles and general battery life wasn’t worse in any way. As for Aldente, it doesn’t control the MacBook on the same level, therefore all power still goes through the battery even when it’s kept at whatever level you set it to. This results in faster aging overall. Although, that’s all based on my personal (and a few others) experience and isn’t confirmed by any Apple officials.

okay, but this all shouldn’t work since macbooks have feature of running directly on power cable, avoiding battery. so shouldn’t be my battery be safe at that point?

Thats some fake information

I think the exact opposite is true, the Mac OS knows how to optimize charging when you leave it plugged in at 100%

Can I just say? I've never seen anyone make content the way you do! I love the integration of MacOS as a style in your videos! It's so cool!

My Macbook Air's battery health went down rapidly from 94% to 83% in 2 month or so. I tried using Al dente when I noticed battery health is going to down rapidly, it didn't help. Now, I don't care anymore.

Nonono it is a smart device and it doesn't charge the battery when it is full

This is why all my homies use nickle metal hydride . You can charge em up to 110% and they don't give two shits. I got nickle metal hydride in my truck, in my laptop, and in my cellular phone. Nickle metal hydride can take a beating.

The Real Problem is that it could be solved with a simple UPDATE Overcharging its preventable. Apples design is for repairing garbage. There are Laptops that put the Electricity directly into the Hardware instead by going through battery and degrading it.

One small note: macOS already has a feature where if you keep your MacBook plugged in for about 2 weeks, it will start pulling power from the power adapter, and instead of the battery powering the internal components while being charged at the same time, it will be left idling and macOS will keep the battery at 76-80% charge and when it drops to below 76% it'll charge it to 80% again, thus keeping your battery at a relatively low discharge cycle count in the long term (macOS always says that its power source is the power adapter in the battery dropdown menu when it's plugged in, but I don't know if that means it's powering the internal components with the power adapter directly from the wall or if it's just charging the battery while it's still the battery that's powering the components). I also wanted to clarify the factors that affect your battery longevity a little bit and why they affect it: -Keeping your battery at near 0% or near 100% for a long time (Near 100% for a long time reduces battery health, NOT because if you keep your device plugged in at 100% it'll try to overcharge your device, there are tons of safety measurements taken against that, but because it's just better for your battery's health for it to have between 20% and 80% charge most of the time. Apple recommends that if you store an old device of yours for the long term in your drawer or something, that you charge it to 50% every 6 months) -Charging your battery at a very high speed (Apple's devices never support very damaging charging speeds even if you have a more capable power brick, and they generally balance the convenience of a fast charging speed and the longevity of your battery really well, so this is more of a concern for devices from brands that do support damaging charging rates, but cramming electrons into your battery really fast will also wear out your battery quicker. And this is not even really because of excess heat, your battery heating up when charging to some extent is actually *good* for your battery health despite common belief, it's just because the cells wear out quicker with electrons moving in and out at a faster rate.) -Heavy use of your device with more intensive apps (There's nothing much you can really do and I wouldn't recommend worrying about this too much, since you paid a lot for your Mac and using your Mac to its full potential ultimately also means you're getting every bit of value out of your Mac that you can, and if you need intensive apps on your Mac you will use them and there's nothing you can do about it, that's why you have a computer, but yeah, using very performance intensive apps like video editing apps will cause your processor to pull more power from your battery and if you do it regularly it'll make your battery maintain its capacity for shorter.)

The animations and graphics are really well done, but there’s no easier way to put this - this is misinformation. Apple’s built in charge optimisation works well and there is no need for third party programs to handle the process on modern Macs.

A LOT of misinformation here. Your mac uses power from the wall when at or near 100%, and essentially trickle charges to 100. Yes keeping it at 100 is bad, but the system does discharge a bit and that 2-7% you were quoting if a buffer to ensure the battery isn't at 100%, most companies do this to ensure the longevity of a battery.

I use AlDente since i have my MacBook Pro (Mid December 22), my charging limit is always at 80%. Now a have looked in my Mac Settings to see what my Health is and i am at 91%? coconutbattery says also that the design Capacity is at 88.4% by 123 Charging Cycles. Is that just a Display Error because I just don't use 20% of my Battery? I am confused a little bit

I never unplug it. It's smart enough to keep the battery off and just draw power from the wall without over-charging the battery. When it dips below like 60-70% after a few weeks it will recharge it automatically. MacBooks aren't cheap PCs, they're premium products with most of these kinds of quirks figured out.

Energizia is better than AlDenta :) better UI and so on, same features

This is true for all Apple products. They do this on purpose. Android phones can power the phone directly from the cable when the batteries are full, so do most Windows laptops.

After owning a 2015 Macbook Pro for 7 years, keeping it plugged in definitely damages it. In 2022 the health was 75%. Now that I got a new M1 Pro I am trying to charge to 80%, I'm hoping this laptop will take me all the way through college

mac mini, imac, mac studio and mac pro users : 🗿

Ive always used macs plugged in 99% of the time. No issues over the past 10 years. No need to purchase apps for that.

Good luck keeping an Intel MacBook's battery levels between 20%~80% while doing any work other than staring at the wallpaper.

Rotten Apple just releasing the best Apple content out of nowhere and thinking we wouldn't notice...

I was panicking when I watched this video but then I remembered I have bought Al Dente on my MBP and uses Mac Mini at home. 😂 Great video to educate the others! I also suggest people to consider using Mac mini or Mac Studio if they don’t need the Mac to be portable. It avoids the issue of battery entirely by not having it. 😆

This is why I use AlDente to keep my battery charge lower when know I’m going to be at home but I’m also working on something overnight

you deserve more subscribers

auctuallt new macs and iphones and ipads use li poly not li ion how ever the mac will not and not over charge the battery swelling is caused from putting it back on charge when the battery is hot from being drained thats what causes the swelling and can blow them along with overdrawing from the battery which no longer happens with m1 and m2 systems for the overdraw but the heat they create in laptops intel or macs with li poly batteries will casue swelling but will not cause it from leaving it on charge i leave my macbooks on charge all the time except when in use as a laptop portable setup my phones and ipads always say on the charger except when used portable use but once done back on the charger after the battery has cooled down never ever charge. a warm or hot battery...

I keep my m1 air plugged into a dock at my desk almost always. Sometimes for weeks straight. I’ve had it since Feb 2021. I was a little worried until i checked battery health and it’s at 99%. There seems to be a lot of mixed information out there, so im not sure what to believe about it.

Gonna try out AlDente! I’m someone that doesn’t use my MacBook all the time, so I’ll leave it plugged in during the day and that will screw up the “optimized charging” schedule. Thank you for making this video :) Also I absolutely love the old Mac sounds used at the beginning and end of your videos. I never grew up with them but they’re very nostalgic to me :)

I used AlDente for one year plugged in at 80% and the battery still got swallowed. When I removed it, the left cell was significantly bumped on surface. Software no matter how intelligent is, won’t be able to stop this issue. Just avoid your battery to be left on charge forever. That’s my experience.

This isn't really true. When I use my MacBook while plugged in, if you click on the battery at the top right, it will say Power source: Charging adapter. Or whatever, my point is that it pulls from the charger instead of the battery.

meh, macs draw power from the wall directly and bypass the battery completely once at 100%. it even says so. just unplug like twice a month so that your batteries don't decay by being full all the time and you should be fine.

Personally, when a video is sponsored, I trust it less. Thanks anyway.

On my dell g3 laptop it firstly only runs fast when plugged in, and only lasts a few hours when not plugged.

This video is totally false. My 2013 MacBook Pro still works, original battery. Kept it plugged in ~90% of the time for 9.5 years. My new 2022 M1 MacBook Pro is even smarter and frequently holds the charge at 80% if it notices that I’m not really using it on battery.

NO THANKS! Al Dente dropped my 15 hour MacBook Pro's battery life to just 2 or 3 hours, and I was only keeping it at 80% or so. Even after charging to 100%. So I got rid of Al Dente and just let macOS optimize. I would say Apple designed the hardware and software to work in cohesion, and optimized charging should be something macOS natively does better.

I've had two Macbook Pro models, one of them a 13-inch Intel i5 and one of them a 15-inch Intel i7, and both of their batteries swelled because I used them attached to a monitor and plugged in all the time. Overcharging isn't the main cause of this, but heat. If you push your computer harder, the system needs the battery to assist that high power demand, so while the CPU and GPU are already smoking hot, the battery gives juice and getting charged at the same time, so the temperature goes up in the same thermal envelope as the GPU and CPU, and then excessive heat destroys the battery membrane between chemicals, causing swell reactions. I think M1 and M2 macbook batteries have lower swell risk then intel macbooks, because of lower power consumption and lower heat. Who knows. Correct me if i'm wrong :)

Or you could just have an battery limit like other laptops

2023, if battery tech and management still stuck in 2013. it would be ridiculous. swelling battery or pillow battery might caused by overcharge and (or) heat. laptop and smartphone by today standard is smart enough to manage battery. but ya, battery will degrading anyway it's all user need to keep it mind is heat and battery cycle.

mine is still 100% after months of use and only 21 cicles MacOS makes it stay at 80% so the battery doesn't degrades Nice try though, won't get my referal click

Battery health of iPhones and the new MacBooks/ iPads at my local best buy are at 100% despite being plugged in almost the entire time they are at those stores. Despite what people are saying they do in fact stop charging and run off the cable when they are at capacity.

well my macbook is currently plugged in but sitting at 80% charge thanks to Charging on hold (rarely used on battery) and i work with external monitors, mouse and keyboard so i cannot unplug my macbook, otherwise it will go into sleep mode

Said it before and will keep saying it: Keep it plugged IN as much as possible ! Keeps cycle count low, and your battery healthy

i know 20~80% rule long time ago. but i recently read somewhere saying these battery management apps actually mess up Apple's own. it wears the battery quicker than simply using apple's own optimization. i really do not know what to do.

the optimised charging feature isn't made for Macs that get left plugged in, its made for people who charge every day and then unplug. If you unplug morning, then it will only charge in the last few hours before you unplug

Nope, this is wrong information. Old Ni-Cd batteries had this issue, but Lithium Ion batteries (and laptops from reputable sources) have mechanisms to prevent this. Either the OS, or the underlying circuitry cuts the battery from the circuit when fully charged now, thus working only on AC power. I have a Dell G3 Gaming Computer that I mainly use for data crunching and software dev (we're talking like 100TB of data at a time from an external drive). It is plugged in like 95% of the time, because my work requires 100% hardware utilization (and because of me pushing it to a 100% everytime, it heats up quite a lot as well). Sometimes, I'll have conventions to present in, and take the laptop and use it equally heavily on the battery. After 4+ years of owning this laptop, my battery health is at 79%, which is honestly the expected. I can say the same about my MacBook Pro and Microsoft Surface coming from equally reckless usage. Batteries being plugged in have never been an issue, I have used computers for 5-7 years like that and still had like 80-85% battery health remaining. Though, you do have to make sure the manufacturer of your device accounts for these things. This is one factor which I always check (and so far, know that Lenovo, Dell, Apple, and Microsoft provide). Stay away from HP.

why do you sound sick? just don't record when you're sick man, it's so annoying. Great video anyway, keep it up!

My Poco X3 NFC still has 80% battery capacity left after 2 years and 9 months. I use it actively and I charge from 25% to around 75% with an 18W fast charger (instead of the 33W charger) because it's barely warm like this and because very fast charging is more damaging than regular fast charging (in addition to the high battery temperature also damaging the battery). And the battery can be replaced by a regular user easily, with a replacement battery costing $10-20. Even the phone still performs almost as good as new, I got the phone for $200. Not a single Apple user can defend against this. Poco phones are the best, especially the F series.

my iphone xr, previously used by my mom, had 78% capacity and when i got it, 79%. so i got 1% less.

Just another myth and subjective opinion. I have macbook 2009 that still have 70% capacity and often stays plugin overnight after daily use outside. Not 100% true. I always plugin if possible. So when mobile...the battery still full.

My macbooks warranty ended and my battery is at %83 health, I need to degrade it to %80 fast so replacement will be cheaper. Any suggestions ? :D

For me it is actually the other way around. I kept my MBP 14" M1 Pro almost every work day plugged for 8 hours a day for a year and my battery is at 98% maximum capacity which it was before I started doing this.

Just checked my ancient MacBook Pro's battery I replaced few months ago... 6160mAh left on it's 6000mAh battery h o w

I can't believe we've come to a point where anime cyberpunk ad like would tell us to keep our devices safe Adults are really just aged kids now

ughhhh apple product. be careful when you reach your battery end of life. when doing replacement, ALWAYS do it at trustworthy vendor. my iphone6s was bricked after battery replacement, got ic reball prochedure, months later got bricked again. little did I know the FIRST time I got my battery replaced, they remove the metalshield of the cabling, leaving the cable exposed unprotected, and causing issue in the long run. that first battery replacement makes my device unhealthy, it's like doing a surgery and the doctor take one of your kidneys.

i wish you would atleast inform yourself, this isnt true. Just like your Iphone, your macbook wont keep charging once at 100%. This is a fact. You can optimize it so that you only charge up to 80% until a certain time. This is a living concept of how it wont keep charging. This would be an issue in the early 2000s but we are in 2023.

I have 2018 macbook pro 13 in custom modification (i7 >>> i5), and my battery still ok (i`m very happy about that😅)

These kind of videos are just for advertisement for this new app. Just keep your macbook plugged in when you are at home. It uses the power and battery remains healthy for a long time.

Uh...isn't the circuitry designed to just bypass current from the battery & power the macbook directly from the wall outlet once the battery is fully charged??

*slowly unplugs ipad*

serious tip to any Mac users who aren't professional artists or video creators: *consider NOT purchasing from Apple*. they're not the only option. I think this is forgotten a lot these days. and to those of you who are thinking "but I don't want to learn a new operating system," let me remind you of something: you, a human, are a member of the most intelligent species on the planet. you can't learn a new operating system? talk about selling yourself short. Macs are extremely overpriced (this is true for all of Apple's products tho), and that will not change any time soon. they also don't come with any useful ports nowadays. this adds all kinds of adapters into the already super high price. if you're still buying Macs knowing all of this, then it's because you have enough money to not care, or you are one of the professional artists or video creators I mentioned in the first sentence of this comment. consider your options

Question: I don‘t charge mine over night or something, but i charge it while in use because i use the usb-c cabel to charge and to connect to my monitor at the same time (it doesn‘t charge when monitor is off). Is it still that bad?

My work's M2 13 inch MBP is already at 92% in 8 months :( at least I'm not paying for the replacements

No.. most OS manage the charges very well, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, etc They constantly slightly discharge and recharge the battery so it isn’t at full 100% And many OS have algorithms to know your usual schedule and would leave the last 15-10% not charging, till it’s close to the usual time you pick the device Also, the boards and chips are very good nowadays to handle and distribute all that power between all the cells so they aren’t 100% full all time What damages the batteries is heat, and power cycles

They can make an option if you charged to 100% and the cord is steel attached they don't receive any more charge until it is like 90% and you can change this setting if you want . just saing i watch this video fore 10 seconds, and on an argument that is rily nonsens in 2023 to have this problems , PSW i dont think is non sens the autor of this video , i think is nonsens the tecnology of this companys .

What I don't understand is why Apple wants us to have th charge on while the macbook is in clam shell mode.. that must stress the battery when it full!

Windows laptop batteries charge till 100 percent and then use the cable as the source of power, like a power supply in a pc, I think apple is the same, it shouldn't degrade your battery that much

phones use lithium ion battery too. i plugged in my phones (samsung, iphone, pixel) before sleep and unplug it before go to work. years, none of them swell on me.