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The April 2014 update of Apple's 13" MacBook Air features refreshed dual-core i5 and i7 processors, plus slightly increased battery performance.

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MacBook Air ifixit replacement battery is draining quickly

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battery on my early 2014 MacBook Air was showing "Service" so I bought a new battery from iFixit.

Since I was going to be in there, I also got a 1 TB Aura Pro X2 SSD.

I installed 10.15.7 on the new Mac HD, followed the instructions to condition the battery.

My battery is draining very quickly. I logged out of iCloud and turned off Bluetooth and it helped slightly, but the battery continues to drain at a much higher rate than it did when new.


I've reset SMC, PRAM but didn't help.

Is this a problem with the battery or something about the SSD?

Is there anything I can do or should I try to put the old hard drive back in?

Help!

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Let’s get a better view of things, install this Gem of an App CoconutBattery take a snapshot of the apps main window and post it here for us to see.

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Appreciate the suggestion. Most of what I found in there I had already noted in the System Profile report or Activity Monitor. I found out what was happening from there.

I'm running Catalina, as it's the earliest version that has firmware for the hard drive I installed. The accountsd process was overdriving the CPU and this was causing the quick battery drain.

I completely signed out of iCloud and the issue went away. Turns out, this is a potential issue for Macs running 10.15.7.

Apparently this was/is a common problem on certain Mac models, mine's one of them. Just search for accountsd issue Catalina or some variant.

An example. https://macresearch.org/mac-accountsd-hi...

I'm keeping iCloud off for now, and it's behaving fine. Since this Mac can only go to Big Sur, am debating an upgrade, but we'll see.

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