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MacOS Big Sur MacBookPro 2020 disable energy drains

Disable settings that prevent the Mac from sleeping or let it wake up overnight in your backpack and drain half of battery.

On top of those, it's probably best to not leave any USB thing plugged to the Mac before putting it to sleep (including YubiKeys).

Enable hibernation (i.e. write to disk)

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25

Prevent bluetooth from waking the device

If you don't want your headphones or keyboard accidentally wake your Mac:

System preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced > untick the last checkbox Allow bluetooth devices to wake this computer

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Disable "power nap" and "wake for network access"

System preferences > Battery > Battery in left menu

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System preferences > Battery > Power Adapter in left menu

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Other things to check

In Activity Monitor you can check the most energy-draining apps, and whether they prevent sleep.

For example, when you play a YouTube video in a web browser, it prevents sleep.

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