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If you don’t see the battery menu on your Mac at all, you’ll need to enable the battery menu icon. If an app appears here and you think it shouldn’t, try closing the app and re-opening it. For example, an application bugs out and starts using 99% of your CPU, it will appear here. Other applications might appear here because they’re malfunctioning. If you’re desperate to squeeze out more battery life, you may want to try Safari instead of Google Chrome in those instances. We like Google Chrome, but it often appears here because it isn’t anywhere near as power-efficient as Apple’s own Safari browser on a Mac. However, some applications may appear here because they’re just inefficient compared to other apps.

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RELATED: How to Troubleshoot Your Mac With Activity Monitor If you’re compressing a video in a media application, it’s using a lot of CPU cycles and will appear here. For example, if you’re playing a demanding game, it’s using a large amount of energy and will appear here. It’s normal for some types of apps to appear here, depending on what they’re doing. You might wonder what Apple considers a “significant amount of energy.” Apple’s documentation says this applies to apps “consuming higher than average energy from the battery.” When you click the menu icon, the message “Collecting Power Usage Information” will appear in the menu, shortly followed by a list of “Apps Using Significant Energy.” If no apps are using a larger amount of power, you’ll see a “No Apps Using Significant Energy” message instead.

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