How to know the number of charge cycles of your MacBook battery

MacBook Battery

The battery life of Apple laptops has always been much discussed and it is that it has always been much higher than the duration that other computers could have running under Windows. It is clear that if the microprocessors used by Apple are the same that other manufacturers can use, it is a question of the system that manages consumption which defines that a device can have more or less battery life. 

On the other hand, we can talk about the number of times that a battery can be charged and, unfortunately, that number is not infinite. This is why if you want to control the number of charge and discharge cycles that your Mac battery carries, the bitten apple system is ready to tell you. 

The number of times that the battery of a MacBook is charged and discharged is a piece of information that in many cases we need to know, either because we have decided to sell our equipment and the buyer wants to know the life that the battery has left or because it is failing and then we want to know what is going on and thereby check that we have not exceeded its useful life. 

About-this-mac

Regarding the maximum number of cycles that Apple laptop batteries have, we can link you to this website of Apple itself in which, by model, it indicates the times that we can charge and discharge the battery of our MacBook before the itself begins to cause problems. For a 12-inch MacBook from early 2015 the maximum number of cycles is 1000, which is It is equivalent to a use of about 2,7 years, recharging it every day, being able to last more than four years if we recharge it an average of 5 times a week. 

To know the number of cycles that our battery has, we must follow the following steps:

  • We access the top menu of the manzanita.
  • Click on the drop-down in About this Mac.
  • Later in System Report.
  • We look in the list on the left for the item Food.

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  • Let's go to the section Battery info.
  • We look for the number of cycles.

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