macOS Sierra 10.12.3 Beta Adds Display Brightness Warning to Save Battery Life on MacBooks; Public Wide Release Hits This Week
Cores Grace MalaayApple has recently made some significant modification on how the battery life data is being shown in MacOS after receiving complaints on the battery life issue of its newest MacBook Pro models. In addition to the battery percentage being displayed and visual indicator of battery level, Apple has added ‘Apps using significant energy' chart, which allows you to know when a running app in the background is taking control of the battery power.
The latest MacOS Sierra 10.12.3 Beta has now included connected displays or the brightness of the user's display, according to Mac Rumors. When you set your MacBook's display brightness more than 75 percent or 13 of the 16 volume cues being active when you turn the brightness up or down, a new ‘Display Brightness' will appear below ‘Apps using significant energy' when choosing the battery icon and if you select that display brightness option, it will trim the display down to 75 percent automatically, which is the same level of battery tests that Apple uses for the MacBook Pro.
Google Chrome web browser has been also using a huge amount of power of Mac's battery life, music streaming service Spotify was also doing the same in the past as well as communications tool Slack and even Apple's every own Safari browser. This resulted to poor performance reviews on MacBook Pro in 2016.
Since battery life is of great importance of the Apple's MacBook Pro as well as a huge selling point, Consumer Reports did not recommend the purchase of the 2016 MacBook Pro as it showed inconsistencies in its battery performance during the initial tests. Apple later identified this issue as a Safari bug, which was immediately fixed and eventually earned Consumer Reports' recommendation. Moreover, the MacOS Sierra 10.12.3 Beta is expected to hit distribution servers for a wide public release this week, according to iPhone Hacks.
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