Technology
The new battery safety update macOS 10.15.5 has now come out.
Catalina 10.15.5 is launched today by Apple and features a new battery safety feature and new images. It will prolong the life of your MacBook battery to improve safety.
Unlike the battery in a MacBook, lithium-ion batteries degrade gradually over time which usually means that they continue to take less charge as the device gets older. The new battery health feature of Apple in macOS is designed to slow down the aging procedure in order to keep your battery charged more for a longer time.
As my colleagues Dieter Bohn and Jacob Kastrenakes described last month, this is how the feature works behind the scenes:
... in certain cases, it may not necessarily mean that you can charge as much as your battery is able to with 100% battery life in your menu bar. Instead of saying that the battery is charged up to 100% of what it will bear, now the battery is charged up to 100% to extend its lifetime.
A battery safety option will be disabled by default whether you are using a thunderbolt-3 Macbook (which is any MacBook Pro released in 2016 or older or a MacBook Air released in 2018 and older). The MacOS 10.15.5 battery will be updated if you upgrad it to a macOS 10.15.5.
MacOS 10.15.5 also lets you shut down the FaceTime group call feature which adjusts the portrait size of the current laptop, adds adjustments to allow the Pro Display XDR to be properly calibrated and has additional bug corrections and upgrade options.
