Thousands of MacBooks are sold every year with fake batteries that report perfect health. The chip has been reprogrammed. The cycle count has been zeroed. The owner has no idea.
Battery Guardian already catches this on Apple Silicon chips. Intel chips are different — different chip, different registers, different forensic signals. We need real-world data from Intel batteries to get the detection right.
You don't need to install anything. Just run a standard macOS diagnostic command, paste the output, and tell us if your battery is original.
Press Cmd + Space, type Terminal, and hit Enter.
It reads your battery chip data and copies it to your clipboard. Nothing is sent anywhere.
ioreg -rn AppleSmartBattery | pbcopy
Your serial number is stripped automatically before anything leaves your browser.
No surprises. Every field is listed below. Your serial number is removed client-side before submission.
| Field | Example | What it tells us |
|---|---|---|
| CycleCount | 312 | Battery wear level |
| DataFlashWriteCount | 847 | Chip calibration history |
| DOD0 | [14201, 14389, 14156] | Per-cell discharge state |
| AverageTemperature | 31 | Lifetime thermal history |
| DesignCapacity | 5100 | Battery model identification |
| Manufacturer | SMP | Pack origin |
| Serial Removed | C015143... | Stripped before sending |
After running the command above, press Cmd+V here.
No account needed. No email collected. Serial number is stripped before sending.
View our open-source code to see exactly what happens.
Your data has been submitted. You're directly helping protect the next Intel Mac buyer from an undetectable fake battery.