My M2 MacBook Air battery life has plummeted since updating to the latest macOS Sonoma patch, and Activity Monitor shows kernel_task consuming all my CPU cycles.
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My M2 MacBook Air battery life has plummeted since updating to the latest macOS Sonoma patch, and Activity Monitor shows kernel_task consuming all my CPU cycles.
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- If kernel_task is using a large percentage of your Mac CPU · support.apple.com