Ondrej Holzman After two months, Apple has released a new update for its Mac computers. In macOS Sierra 10.12.2 we find both the same set of new emoji as in iOS 10.2, but many users will surely welcome a whole series of bug fixes. At the same time, in macOS 10.12.2, Apple responds to problems with battery life, especially for the new MacBook Pros with Touch Bar.
In the Mac App Store, you'll find a long list of fixes and improvements for macOS Sierra 10.12.2, but Apple kept one of the most visible to itself. In response to numerous complaints that the new MacBook Pros don't last the claimed 10 hours, it removed the remaining battery time indicator from the top row near the battery icon. (However, this indicator can still be found in the Activity Monitor application in the Energy section.)
In the top row, you will still see the remaining percentage of the battery, but in the corresponding menu, Apple no longer shows how much time is actually left until the battery is discharged. According to Apple, this measurement was not accurate.
For a magazine The Loop Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he said, that while the percentages are accurate, due to the dynamic use of computers, the remaining time indicator was unable to show relevant data. It makes a difference if we use more or less demanding applications.
Although many users complain that their MacBook Pros with Touch Bar simply cannot last the 10 hours stated by Apple, the Californian company continues to claim that this figure is adequate and stands behind it. At the same time, users often report only six to eight hours of battery life, so removing the remaining time indicator does not seem like a very good solution.
"It's like being late for work and fixing it by breaking your watch," he commented Apple solutions prominent blogger John Gruber.
However, MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 also brings other changes. The new emoji, which are both redesigned and there are more than a hundred new ones, are also complemented by new wallpapers like on iPhones. The graphics and system integrity protection disabling issue reported by some new MacBook Pro owners should be fixed. The complete list of fixes and improvements can be found in the Mac App Store, where the new update for macOS can be downloaded.
New iTunes is also available in the Mac App Store. Version 12.5.4 brings support for the new TV app, but it's only in the United States. At the same time, iTunes is now ready to be controlled by the new Touch Bar.
You're really embarrassing with those articles, you're destroying Apple, I don't know what you're doing here, you're going to write articles on some website about Android and leave Apple alone
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so when apple gave some kind of pizza, everyone just put up with it, because apple?
Experts. Instead of fixing it… ;-D
so don't buy it if you don't have the guts for it
if you turn on the cat, turn off the display and do nothing on it, it will last for 15 hours!!!
soooo, the one who laughs at this solution is a sock :), well, I'm a sock too, I think there will be enough socks for a cell with Gruber :) …. so we won't buy it.
… prominent blogger John Gruber …
I thank the editors for making this morning pleasant. I hope my smile lasts until late.
Mainly because they added some silly pictures that nobody cares about. But about the fact that he would no longer have the stupid scroll on the mouse, which foreign forums are full of, about the fact that Sierra does not keep the arrangement of the top menu, as it used to be in 10.11 (I mean the pointer where the search time is and then Dropbox, iStat and etc.) and others, the editors won't even think of it. Um.
According to my logical reasoning. Because when I see that my Mac is supposed to last 10 hours and I only run the stupid MS Otulook, that time is suddenly shortened. Well, if I don't see how the original assumption (yes, it was really an estimate) has changed after starting Outlook, then I'm logically confused that I didn't give ten hours.. :)
It's not logical. After all, that function was there for many years. I think I already had it in 10.5.7 when I bought my mbp in 2009. It is logical that if I run a program, the endurance will decrease, because the disk, RAM, processor and bus are all loaded. But when the program is running and in the background it is just checking to see if it has received a new email, it will hold on to increase again.
For example, if I start a movie, I want to see how much time I have before the battery runs out. I'm not interested in percentages, but I am interested in battery life.
Or I'm presenting something somewhere, so I want to see how much time I have before the battery runs out. If I have a little time for the flashlight, I'll send someone to get the charger.
BTW, where did the discussion that was here yesterday go???
It's funny that you write that it has a logical justification, and it's also funny that others say that there is only one logic and others that everyone has their own. So let me make it clear to you this update brought a lot of fixes but this was a useful thing.
"Apple is clear - battery life problems with new MacBooks", so I'll screw it up with the old ones too, where it works. :D People complained that instead of 8 hours, their Mac lasts 6 hours when rendering videos? And isn't it logical if you burden the Mac with huge files in the editor? I don't want to know to the second how long it will run, but approximately how long it will run, yes, now I have to look for some third-party app to find out useful information. This is a really luxurious update. I hope that even the cars in the automotive industry will take the fuel level. :D
So the comparison was not accurate. The percentage still remained. So the "fuel" status was not removed. :) The estimated number of kilometers on the car also never fits me, and I don't even look at it or test it. :-)
It can also be understood that when you start fiddling with various applications, you look at the moment you are working and it calculates it at the given moment when you are doing something on it. If some moron with diopters looks before he starts messing around and doesn't do several things at once, but one nicely at a time, then he can sell his Mac and buy a PC with Widle and I wish him a successful rest of his life. That state changes depending on how the Mac is used, and I think it was a fair trick.
it's not even worth commenting... practical functions among them, instead of hundreds of smileys that people don't use, instead of removing the problem, the function is removed
I figured out a way to return it. I'll film it.
I have no words. I thought it was some kind of bug in the beta and they normally canceled it. A user who is worried about the delay during rendering, that it does not correspond to the paper values, should not be wrong. A user who does not understand such an elementary thing, that the estimate of durability changes depending on the current load, is probably stupid. He probably shouldn't even look at the instantaneous consumption indicator in the car when he has to start up a hill, because he might get scared. Years ago, stupidity was a reason for ridicule, today it is a social standard and everything in SW adapts to it. It's even popular to flaunt your stupidity.
Does anyone know if the new update applies to all models besides the new MacBook Pro with Touch bar? So also, for example, MacBook Air?
If you mean removing that remaining time indicator, then yes, unfortunately this applies to all Macs.
It's all about Macs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDR05mAEEm8
Thanks for the tutorial. We will test it. Just two things.
1) The link to the original system file is missing ;)
2) So, did I understand correctly that after replacing with an older file, the menu will no longer be shown by an application with significant battery consumption? Because now 10.12.2 shows them.
I fixed the link and the app shows it, but now I won't fix it anymore, I'd have to delete the video ;)
Ok, fine, it just didn't make sense to me :)
How cool, thanks for the video, but to turn off the "protection" of the system against modification, it's not worth it to me ...
I stopped using TotalFinder because of this, I also don't use Bartender for system apps, etc… :-( It's oser, I don't agree with it, but in this case I want Apple to return it, ie it was system…
Quo vadis Apple? That would make one cry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDR05mAEEm8
Great, and thank you very much for the great instructions. I've been looking for a few weeks now and I think that it was shown a while ago. So I googled it and the first thing I found was your link with the instructions, so it's time to go back to the macbook pro 2013, it works, thank you very much :)