u/ConstructionOk4434

Hi all. I've had my Surface 4 for about four years now. It's held up great until about a year ago. The battery life on it has slowly been draining, and it continues to get worse. Right now, it loses about 20% of its battery per hour (on low power mode) if I am just doing a normal workload, or more if I use sites such as Canva or programs such as Obsidian. It also frequently gets hot after about an hour of constant light work. When I look at my battery report, it shows that its full charge capacity is at 40,670 MwH as opposed to the 45,800 when I first bought it, which, to my understanding, is good for 200+ charge cycles.

I was wondering if anyone knows why this is happening, if there's any way to fix it, or if it will continue to get worse.

My brightness is normally no brighter than 50%. I do use Chrome, and I understand that can factor into it, but I feel like 20% battery drain per hour on low battery is excessive, with or without it; please feel free to correct me.

Any input is appreciated. Thanks!

Hi all. I've had my Surface 4 for about four years now. It's held up great until about a year ago. The battery life on it has slowly been draining, and it continues to get worse. Right now, it loses about 20% of its battery per hour (on low power mode) if I am just doing a normal workload, or more if I use sites such as Canva or programs such as Obsidian. It also frequently gets hot after about an hour of constant light work. When I look at my battery report, it shows that its full charge capacity is at 40,670 MwH as opposed to the 45,800 when I first bought it, which, to my understanding, is good for 200+ charge cycles.

I was wondering if anyone knows why this is happening, if there's any way to fix it, or if it will continue to get worse.

My brightness is normally no brighter than 50%. I do use Chrome, and I understand that can factor into it, but I feel like 20% battery drain per hour on low battery is excessive, with or without it; please feel free to correct me.

Any input is appreciated. Thanks!

Hello! I currently use a Surface 4 Laptop, and Canva drains my battery like crazy and frequently causes it to overheat. I was thinking of switching to a Mac M5, but was wondering if anyone had any experience using Canva on the system and if the problem would persist. I don't do anything crazy on it, just make PowerPoints and worksheets, but I use it often as I'm a student teacher.

Any input is appreciated! Thank you!

Hello! I'm thinking of switching from my Surface 4 to a MacBook Air M5, but I was wondering how well the battery holds up? I'm a student teacher, so I use Canva a lot, and noticed that it drains my Surface's battery really fast and causes it to overheat. I don't do anything crazy on it, just PowerPoints and worksheets. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using Canva (or any similar programs) on their current Air and could attest to the battery life experience. Thanks!