Upgraded to Mojave, now my battery runs flat in sleep mode!

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My late 2013 retina Macbook Pro used to be fine and would sleep for days. Now after installing MacOS Mojave it is down to 30% overnight :frowning_face::frowning_face:
Searching the internet this was listed as a widespread problem https://appletoolbox.com/2018/10/how-to-fix-macos-mojave-battery-draining-issue/ and I have done all the steps listed here including SMC reset. Only thing I have not done is to wipe my Macbook and do a total re-install. I’m on 10.14.15 OS version so fully up-to-date and it is still a real problem.

Do others suffer this? Is any news Apple are actually trying to fix this. I now have to shut my computer down overnight losing one of the great Mac benefits of quick sleep/start.
Thanks for any advice.

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For some a battery fix was been found when turning off ‘Find My Mac’

user@macbookpro $ sudo pmset -b tcpkeepalive 0

Warning: This option disables TCP Keep Alive mechanism when sytem is sleeping. This will result in some critical features like ‘Find My Mac’ not to function properly.

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This article offers another Terminal command as a fix:

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Before you go crazy with this, make sure Spotlight is done reindexing.

I upgraded a 2016 MBP a few weeks back with no battery issues after the first day or two.

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Use the console app to determine if there is a misbehaving app or which app(s) or background processes claim a lot of time.

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Thanks, I just tried the tcpkeepalive one. The rest of the article listed I already tried a few times.

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