Boost the Battery Life of Your 2016 MacBook Pro By Updating Apple’s Safari Technology Preview App

Boost the Battery Life of Your 2016 MacBook Pro By Updating Apple's Safari Technology Preview App
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Following the issuance of a scathing review from Consumer Reports, Apple has been making big moves in recent weeks to better the battery performance of its 2016 MacBook Pro — and the company’s most recent attempt to do so was released just this week, in the form of an update to the Safari Technology Preview web browser, which will usher in some pretty substantial changes in how GPU-related processing is managed on the machine.

Release 23, as it’s known, unlike previous, bi-monthly updates to the Safari Technology Preview browser, utilizes a more advanced algorithm to help your MacBook Pro’s GPU determine when (or if) it needs to be activated in order to help load certain webpages — typically those rich in content and graphics.

This update is great news for users of the Silicon Valley Mac-maker’s 2016 MacBook Pro, especially seeing as how the GPU would previously trigger upon the loading of every single web page — and, in that way, cause a considerable drain on the machine’s battery.

For a machine like Apple’s latest-and-greatest Mac, which is partially powered by its own dedicated GPU, the update will therefore place less of a demand on the chip — which will in turn foster longer-term gains in overall battery performance and longevity, especially for those who do a lot of web browsing.

Yet Release 23 is merely the latest in a string of similar battery-life optimizations meant to enhance the MacBook Pro’s battery performance, which was among the key issues with the machine noted specifically in Consumer Reports’ review. The consumer products testing and analytics firm also made mention of an entirely unrelated Safari cache bug that was causing the browser to drain battery much faster than it should have been, however that issue has since been addressed.

If you haven’t yet heard of Apple’s Safari Technology Preview browser, you might want to check out our previous write-up on the purple-clad, developer-friendly Safari app for Mac. However, some of its primary features over the standard, blue-hued Safari browser include iCloud capabilities, greater stability, as well as a slew of additional features that enable developers to create web-based applications, among other advancements.

To download Safari Technology Preview on your Mac, feel free to visit this link; and if you’re not really interested in doing that, then you’ll be happy to know that these same changes will be coming to the standard Safari browser at a later time.

Do you use Apple’s Safari Technology Preview browser? Let us know in the comments!

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