Lately I noticed that the battery in my Switch is draining faster than usual. Since I’ve had it for 5 years now, I figured it could just be battery health.
Yesterday I tested it, though, and the results don’t really sound like battery health but rather a software issue. This is what I did:
1. Charged it to 100%. Unplugged and left it suspended without any games open.
2. After 12 hours, I lost 3% of battery, which is fine by me.
3. I played along the day for a total of 3-4 hours, still had more than 50% left.
4. I suspended it with Mario & Luigi Brothership opened.
5. Today, approximately 12 hours later, there is no battery left.
Electronic devices running on batteries are usually only good for X-number of charges before they expire.
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@RenanKJ If it's not an aging battery issue... People have been posting/reporting battery draining unnecessarily fast while using sleep mode over night. It's suspected that october's switch update 19.0.0 broke sleep mode's power saving. Although, if you try to reproduce it, the problem won't happen every night.
Until nintendo puts out an update/fix, you can avoid the battery drain if you shut off the console.
I personally don't like wasting a battery's limited cycles on sleep mode. So, I always shut down the console when I'm done for the day.
I read somewhere that it was a Wi-Fi issue. I tried to leave the same game open but turn on airplane mode and the issue is gone. Granted, I also pressed home to go back to the main menu before suspending so not 100% sure which action actually fixed it.
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