I hate my MacBook's “smart” charging

2 points·behnamoh··7 comments

It learns when you often use your device so outside of those times, it intentionally makes it take so much longer to charge. But that sucks because sometimes I actually change the time I use my Macbook and I notice that despite being plugged in, it still won't charge.

Some other times, it doesn't even charge during work hours, despite being plugged in.

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On Monterey you can go to System Preferences -> Battery -> Battery -> Optimised battery charging and disable it.

Maybe try AlDente:

https://apphousekitchen.com/

https://github.com/AppHouseKitchen/AlDente-Charge-Limiter

When you tell it to top-up, it does.

(Yes, I am a paid user.)

thanks, but I'm sick of Apple for taking away/not providing basic features so that we have to pay for third-party apps. Same thing happened with sound equalizers.

1) There's a free version of AlDente.

2) You can turn off the MacBook's adaptive charging algorithm in Settings.

Yes, I had the same issue with my pixel phone in that it would aim to be charged by 8am but I get up much earlier normally. I see the value of slow charging, so rather than prevent it I set an alarm for 5am with a silent ring and no vibrate. Works perfectly. Charged when I get up.

The problem with it, imo, is the Apple-style total lack of configurability for it, and an insistence that it is "smart" which in reality means it is very dumb.

that's all apple products now I guess, happened with my iphone aswell.

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