Windows 10: Why is iCloud draining my Surface battery while in sleep mode? Windows 11

On opening laptop from sleep mode lid closed, I am finding battery has drained to below 10% overnioght. System says this is 87% iCloud. How do I solve this? This has happened twice this week

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Windows 11 battery draining in sleep mode

Hi

I have recently got this laptop from HP with windows 11

the laptop has a peculiar problem of battery drain on sleep mode. the laptop loses almost 20 percent battery in 8 hours of night and at times you cannot even boot the laptop because it has reached to reserve battery levels, and you need to search for power adapter.

searched online for help which recommended changing sleep to hibernation. did that as well but the outcome has no change.

the only solution that works is to shut down the laptop every time you don't use and that is not a solution if you want to resume your work.

please suggest how to stop this drain so that we have better battery management and life.

 

Windows 11 battery draining in sleep mode

Brand new laptop came with Windows 11.

I've noticed that it doesn't actually sleep in sleep mode. The battery still drains at roughly the same rate as when I'm using the laptop, the body of the computer remains warm as if it's still running.

How do I get it to actually sleep during sleep mode? Sleep mode in virtually every other computer I've used at least doubles the battery life but this sleep mode doesn't function at all.

 

Battery drains to zero in sleep mode - Windows 11

Hi Vivek. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, specializing in Installation, Performance, Troubleshooting and Activation, here to help you.

Try the fixes here for battery draining during sleep in Windows 11:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/battery-drain-is...

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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/qlc...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/for...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/q...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/qa9...

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Dell-XPS-930...

https://www.quora.com/My-laptops-battery-drains...

https://www.wired.com/story/7-tips-improve-batt...



If nothing suggested by the others helps and If you want to report this to Microsoft use the Feedback Hub app in Start Menu where developers are tasked to process consumer feedback. They will not even see it here. This is a tech forums staffed mostly by volunteers trying to help others with your problems.



Additionally, to make sure it gets seen if you're a Windows Insider you can report it in the Windows 11 Insider forums here which is monitored by developers:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-...

I hope it helps.

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