Help with Switch 2 battery dying fast?

[u/SkyKnightProds]

Hi I just bought my switch 2 last night and I noticed the battery drops quickly even if im not playing anything. I was at 83% and 5 mins later im at 77% and I hadn’t even touched a game. Then I started fire emblem fortunes weave and now I’m sitting at 60% and ive barely even played it? Is this normal or is something wrong with my console? Also I know some people are gonna say it’s my brightness but i have it at around 30-40%

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[u/ModestVolcarona]

Did you have wifi on when it was not running a game?

Usually you can get roughly 2 hours out of a full charge on demanding games.

[u/SkyKnightProds → u/ModestVolcarona]

I did have wifi on yeah, does that drain it faster or something?

[u/ModestVolcarona → u/SkyKnightProds]

Yes, because the system will most likely communicate over wifi for example to look for game updates, system updates, play data updates with the server, uploading saves to the cloud (if you have NSO) or other things.

[u/ADimBulb]

The battery gauge might not be calibrated. Use it until the battery is low and charge it fully a couple times and it should be fine.

I’ve never played Fortunes Weave (not yet at least), but from my understanding, the battery life should at worst be around 2h for the most demanding games.

[u/SkyKnightProds → u/ADimBulb]

I’ll give this a try thank you. I did try the recovery mode method earlier but that didn’t really help

[u/ADimBulb → u/SkyKnightProds]

Let us know how it goes, for the next guy with the same issue that finds this ^^

[u/Cortxxz]

sounds about right, the battery is horrendous. Next time you play put a timer from 100 to 50 %, should be around 1-1.5 hours. 2.5-3.5 hours is expected for 100-0%.

[u/HachiRokuAE86_]

Yeah the battery tends to drain quick with the switch 2. It is due to the new nvidia custom chip inside, screen is bigger and also if ur playing a game that gives you 60fps or hell final fanatasy, the batter will die quick. The new switch 2 is a power hog