iPod touch 6gen is showing Battery Percentage?

[mr.steevo]

Nope. I bought them new for my boys age 13 and 11 for Christmas. The older boy wanted to know how he could turn his battery percentage on like his brothers. That's what started me looking.

It’s a mystery of life

From my experience the battery percentage indicator is horribly inaccurate.

 

[Aston441]

It's a lot more accurate with the latest iOS 11 version.

Interestingly, I just had my "battery replaced" on my iPt6 by having it swapped out with new old stock that still had iOS 8 on it. There was no battery percentage. I updated it to iOS 11 and it has percentage now. I have a feeling that the iOS development team is very fragmented these days.

 

[Avenged110]

It wasn't uncommon to see people with iPod touches that restored them to backups they made on their iPhones having the percentage (but not the Settings toggle) show up sometimes.

I don't use anything newer than iOS 6, so I can't be sure that this still occurs, but it used to IIRC.

 

[wilsonlaidlaw]

My iPod touch 128GB was bought direct from Apple within a week of Sceptical Scribe (post above) in October 2017. It has never showed battery percentage and there is no option in settings/battery to alter that. It is running iOS 11.2.4 (just upgrading to 11.2.5 right not). Battery percentage even if inaccurate, would be better than nothing.