Yesterday the new version of macOS Sierra 10.12.2 reached millions of users with many new features that our colleague Jordi Giménez told us about in yesterday's article. However, as has happened on many other occasions, Apple makes changes that it does not announce and that when users begin to update our computers we realize it.
In this case, those from Cupertino have decided to shelve the user of the portable You can have a reference of the battery that your laptop has left in time format, leaving only the possibility of seeing how much battery is left in percentage.
If I tell you the truth, on very few occasions I have looked at how much battery time I have left and what I always look at is the percentage number that I have in the top bar of the Finder after having configured it for it.
Well, as we have told you, Apple has eliminated from the drop-down menu that appears when we click on the battery icon the reference to the time that remains of it, as you can see in the following screenshot that corresponds to the version prior to 10.12.2.
The reason why Apple has made this decision is because many users of the new 2016 MacBook Pro have written in the Apple support forum that their computers They weren't stating an estimated battery life as Apple said it should last.
Faced with such an avalanche of cases related to the same issue, Apple has tested certain equipment to reach the conclusion that there is no problem with their hardware And what happens is that the system's meter does not correctly estimate the remaining sweeping time, before which the Cupertino headquarters have decided to cut their losses, eliminate that meter from the users' view.
An Apple spokesperson has reported the following:
The percentage of remaining battery is accurate, but due to the dynamics with which we use the computer the indicator of time left it can't keep up with what users are doing. Everything we do with the MacBook affects battery life in different ways, and not having an accurate gauge is confusing.
In addition to the applications we work with every day, there are a lot of things that happen in the background that users do not realize and that affect the battery.
If you want the counter to return to where it was, we will have to use the Activity Monitor tool that you can invoke from Spotlight for now. In its Energy tab and in the lower part of the window we have the counter that has disappeared from the location of all life.
A third-party application that you can also use and that has a cost of 18 euros is called iStat Menus. We know that it is a very expensive way to have it back in the Finder bar but for those who need it at least there is a different solution to that of the Activity Monitor.
symplestats has a much lower price and is available in the MAS