[cbushko]

I recently noticed a decline in battery on my M1. It is ridiculous to complain about 10h battery life but the decline was noticeable. I fixed it by:

1) Turn off siri suggestions & privacy and all the app watching it does. System Settings -> Siri & Spotlight -> Siri Suggestions & Privacy. It turned it off for every app.

2) Turn off siri all together. System Settings -> Siri & Spotlight -> Ask Siri Toggle

3) Turn off Spotlight for everything you do not need. System Settings -> Siri & Spotlight -> Search Results check boxes

4) Turn off login items. System Settings -> Login items. Remove what you do not need from the list.

5) Turn off run in background items. System Settings -> Login items -> Allow in background

6) Remove items from ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ that you do not need. I had an old docker vnet item that wasn't needed.

Other than #6, you can do the first 5 things on all of your Apple devices and it makes a big difference in battery life. I just did the same steps with my phone and ipad.

I hope this helps your battery life a little bit.

[spockz]

Thank you! I have turned off a lot of background helpers from apps I don't use anymore and removed some search result types. Docker was in the background helpers multiple times. Let's see how much this helps.

In activity monitor, I also saw that Steam and iStat Menus both hand an "impact" of 50 which made them the top 2, the next had an "impact" of 5.

[rigmarole]

This might be an old issue, but try turning of the hard drive space indicator in iStats Menu. It was a major drain for me a couple years ago. After a restart, energy use went way down.

[spockz]

Thank you. As part of the analysis I stopped istats completely as it was one of the main consumers of power.

But I think it must still be something else as it also consumes power in sleep. And I have disabled function to wake up and check mail.