So "browsing the web" isn't the same way - I may go to YouTube all of a sudden and the battery life will have to drop.Īnd that's the issue - there's no point telling the user they have 5 hours of battery life because they'll think they have. Other websites have videos and sound and take more CPU and reduce the time. What is "the same way"? Browsing the web can be tricky - some websites are nice and static and use little CPU and give plenty of battery life. Light work naturally will show more time left than playing a video game. It will show me how much time I have left if I continue to use the computer in the same way. My Surface Pro 3 dynamically figures out the time left. Besides the apps we are working on all the time, there are a lot of things that are happening in the background that users may not be aware of that affects battery life. Everything we do on the MacBook affects battery life in different ways and not having an accurate indicator is confusing. Apple said the percentage is accurate, but because of the dynamic ways we use the computer, the time remaining indicator couldn't accurately keep up with what users were doing.
From a report on The Loop: You can still see the image on the top of the screen, and you can see the percentage, but you will no longer be able to see how much time is remaining before your battery dies. Apple says it stands by its 10-hour battery life claim in the new MacBook Pro models, and adds that the battery life indicator didn't show accurate information.
Apple has removed the "time remaining" battery life indicator with the new macOS Sierra update following complaints from several users of new MacBook Pro models.