Apple MacBook Pro units hit by ‘1% charge’ bug to get free battery replacement

Apple has acknowledged a problem with MacBook Professional that's stopping customers from charging over 1% of their laptop computer’s batteries. The issue is seemingly affecting a small variety of customers with the 2016 and 2017 MacBook Professional fashions.

The battery well being standing on the affected MacBook Professional fashions may also doubtless point out a “Service Recommended” warning if you're one of many affected customers. Nonetheless, if the standing signifies that your battery is Regular, you aren't affected.

Easy methods to test your MacBook Professional Battery Well being

To find out in case your MacBook Professional is affected and wishes a battery substitute, you may test the battery well being manually. To do that on macOS Massive Sur, navigate to Apple menu/ System Preferences/ Battery. Right here search for the Battery tab within the sidebar and select Battery Well being. In macOS Catalina or earlier, customers can maintain down the Choice key and click on the battery icon within the menu bar to disclose the battery standing menu.

Apple to exchange affected batteries at no cost

Apple has revealed which you could contact your close by service centre to get the MacBook Professional 2016 or 2017 mannequin’s battery changed freed from cost in case your system is among the affected ones. Nonetheless, the department will first examine your system to ensure if the machine is eligible for a free battery substitute.

Apple has additionally launched a brand new replace that forestalls the difficulty from affecting extra MacBook Professional 2016 and 2017 models. ”Please replace to macOS Massive Sur 11.2.1 or later or set up the macOS Catalina 10.15.7 supplemental replace,” Apple talked about on its help web page.

You may as well manually replace your machine by heading over to System Preferences from the Apple menu. Right here, click on Software program Replace to test for updates and search for macOS Massive Sur 11.2.1 or later or macOS Catalina 10.15.7 supplemental replace.