Battery Consumption Problem

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Hello, guys!

I have a question regarding my battery consumption when using Obsidian.

I have a MacBook Air M2 and my battery usually works pretty well. Its cycle count is 214 and battery health is 93%. Battery condition: normal.

I use Obsidian and Zettlekasten method, which means that I have a lot of small notes.

I use the free version, so I don’t have syncing with other devices. Also, I don’t use any plugins.

Still, when I use Obsidian my battery drops significantly. When I leave my laptop overnight without closing Obsidian, my battery drops for ~25%.

Do you have any idea what’s happening with my battery? I am positive it is related to Obsidian because I did a bit of debugging and when I turn Obsidian off I don’t have problems anymore.

Take care,
Darko

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do you use canvas much? I have a bug sometimes with canvas where it spits out errors and ties up a cpu core until restart

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If you run the command Show debug info (Cmd + p → Show debug info), what are your Obsidian and Installer version numbers? At the top:

Screenshot 2025-11-04 074121
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You could paste the entire Debug info in here.

If you are running an old(er) Installer version, I’d download and reinstall Obsidian. The latest, Obsidian-1.9.14.dmg for macOS, can be downloaded from https://obsidian.md.

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No, I haven’t used canvas at all. Thanks!

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Yes, of course!

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.9.14
Installer version: v1.7.7
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 25.0.0: Wed Sep 17 21:38:03 PDT 2025; root:xnu-12377.1.9~141/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 25.0.0
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 0
Plugins enabled: 0

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

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I haven’t updated my Macs to Tahoe yet, but Darwin Kernel Version 25.0.0 = macOS Tahoe which is causing issues with apps using older electron versions (not only Obsidian).

I’d update the installer if you haven’t yet and see how that goes.

https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-10-01-desktop-v1.9.14/

The installer has been updated to use Electron v37.6.0 (requires downloading the latest installer). For users on macOS Tahoe, this may improve app performance.

I’ll add: be sure to update any other Electron-based apps that you use as well.

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Sure thing, thank you!