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Apple Limiting iOS 16 Beta 5 Battery Percentage Display to Select iPhones: Here Are the Supported Devices
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Exactly. Even in the current iOS 15 it IS visible in my daughters 2016 iPhone SE, while it NOT an option on my iPhone 12 mini, which has a much bigger display than the SE. So it's certainly not an issue with size of the screen.
The battery percentage was always in the status bar of iPhones way back to the very first one. Why they took it away as an option is completely bizarre to me.
This could definitely be supported on the 13 mini if it’s supported on the X, because they both have the same software resolution as can be seen when you take a screenshot.
FaceID is great... when you're not in a pandemic and has to use facemasks with glasses that fog all the time, and when apple takes almost two years to implement a meassure to allow use of FaceID with mask that still only works 1/4 of the time. Yeah.... I miss touchID too, sad thing is that they have the tech to make it integrated to the side button like on the ipad air, but choose not to include it alongside FaceID on the iphones. not even the pros.
Mini’s screen size is so small though. Not gonna lie, on my 13 Pro, it’s pretty small….
Yea but it doesn’t have a notch so has more room for status bar items. The % is outside the battery on that model so it can use larger text, bypassing the screen size or pixel density issue.
That’s a matter of opinion. Plenty big enough for me and less than 10% smaller than a X / XS.
Fair, but pretty sure Apple’s own dev team needs to adhere to Apple’s iOS developer guidelines regarding usability and design.
Think you misread my post. The X and XS support it and they share the same software resolution as the 12 mini and 13 mini. The screen size difference between the 13 mini and a X is 8.5%.
I got text small enough to fit in battery icon elsewhere on my phone without issues, this has nothing to to with ppi on xr/11, this is just a frick you moment for now from apple, but lets wait and see if the expand this to all notch models
Don’t think this function would work perfectly without an M1 Chip
Even that doesn't make sense, if you look at the list.
Apple "We worked really hard to bring back the battery percentage on iphones, unfortunately for it to work the apple way it is limited to those devices with an M1 chip due to power usage" 🤣
This is a beta, you know, with at least four versions to go. They may not be done yet. The different screens probably require a different algorithm to display the text and they may not have gotten around to it yet. It's so minor a feature that Apple didn't bother to even mention it and it just showed up. More of it might show up next week for all we know. It definitely isn't to force anyone to upgrade because there's not a single person on this planet who would upgrade a phone just to get a battery percentage.
There are two alternatives. They're not done implementing it on all phones yet or they think the text looks too small and/or blurry to put on certain phones. We'll find out which one it is by September.
FaceID definitely has its uses and the ideal phone would incorporate FaceID and TouchID, maybe requiring a combination of both for high value transactions through Apple Pay. For me though, if I can only have one I'll take TouchID.
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While it's not entirely clear why Apple has chosen to limit the availability of this feature, it may be due to space constraints on the smaller displays.
Oh we know the reason:
