Automatic: The default option which balances energy use and performance.

Low Power: Reduces energy use to increase battery life.

Energy modes can be set separately for battery or power adapter Image credit: Appleĭepending on your Mac model, you may see these options in the Energy Mode menu: High power mode can be used whether your Mac is connected to power or not.

Select “High Power Mode” from the pop-up menu next to “Energy Mode”.

In the sidebar, click “Battery” or “Power Adapter”.

In the System Preferences window, click the icon labeled “Battery”.

Click the Apple menu, then choose “System Preferences”.

On your 16-inch MacBook Pro (2021 model), open the Battery preferences and toggle power mode on or off separately in the “Battery” and “Power Adapter” sections. How to turn on high power mode on your Mac It’s this additional cooling capacity, says a support document on the Apple website, that “may allow the system to deliver higher performance in very intensive workloads.” And that’s pretty much everything to know about how high power mode in macOS works. To help you squeeze the last drop of power from your Mac’s Apple CPU, the new 16-inch MacBook Pro provides a new feature, dubbed High Power Mode. When you put your Mac into high power mode, the operating system will maximize performance during very intensive workloads by permitting the fans to run at higher speeds to keep the CPU cool. Because Apple’s custom Mac chips are much more power-efficient than Intel’s, Apple silicon computers can run at higher speeds, and longer, than their Intel-based counterparts without ever spinning the fans. Normally when you run a resource-intensive task on your computer, like exporting a video project or manipulating complex scenes in 3D software, the fans will go into overdrive trying to keep the strained CPU cool.

But did you know about high power mode, the polar opposite to low power mode? Read: How to use low power mode on your Mac You’re familiar with low power mode on iPhone ( and iPad and Mac), which temporarily disables some features to save battery life. 8) With great power comes great responsibility A brief introduction to macOS high power mode

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