Ohhh. Another place on the screen I can't touch for fear of something going off.It’s there to show you that you can interact with that space. Pull it down to show the control center
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iOS 16.1 Adds Battery Percentage to iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone XR, and iPhone 11 Status Bar
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(It's getting to be ridiculous for older relatives.) Thanks!
Rumor has it that they will also be adding Dynamic Island Peninsula (since the notch is only surrounded by screen on 3 sides) as well.
Agreed its a massive problem that is clear not everyone is more productive from home (doing laundry on a conference call doesn’t count its only more productive for YOU not the company) Yet hundreds of corporate workers are threatening to quit over having to come in 3 days per week. Pathetic.
Any company that MAKES A PHYSICAL PRODUCT is not going to benefit from a 100% WFH model. So sick of that Excuse. But it depends on the industry. Apple is not one of them…
Because 13 Mini > mini 12The inconsistency in the mini capitalization in the title
Yes because having a battery percentage indicator on the Home Screen makes people want to upgrade lol try harder
When iPhone SE was released it sold over 22 million units, more than the iPhone 12.
After the pandemic people started noticing how stressful and toxic it is to constantly be exposed to other people and cramped into an office. Apart from the loss of time and environmental aspect of commuting.
Suddenly, you can work more focused and efficient in a work environment at home that is built to suit you, rather than minimize the comfort and floor space in order to make certain numbers look better.
In the end, the company profits as many work hours per week are spend more productive and they even save on building costs.
But yes, for certain tasks it's better to be onsite. Small scale teamwork or just physical labour for example. But then work from home makes this more productive as there are less people in the office and those are there for a purpose, rather than random bothering coworkers.
But that's a bit off topic.
I'm glad they will add the percentage indicator. Never understood why it went away. If space is low, just get rid of the battery icon. Apparently, nagging the apple hotlines sometimes helps
The company I work saw a large increase in profitability when WFH started. Yes I get that is going to vary by industry.
Relax everyone. It’s just a bug. They’ll remove it in the next beta
I’m wondering if there is more than meets the eye here.
SPECULATION: The newer phones that get it in 16.0 from the get go are using different power management hardware or algorithms. The older phones that wait for 16.1 use a “legacy” power management chips/hardware and that was deprioritized in order to get 16.0 out the door.
That’s the only way I can make sense of it, and I have nothing to back it up. I also can’t be bothered (right now) to check iFixit for what chips are related to power management.
SPECULATION: The newer phones that get it in 16.0 from the get go are using different power management hardware or algorithms. The older phones that wait for 16.1 use a “legacy” power management chips/hardware and that was deprioritized in order to get 16.0 out the door.
That’s the only way I can make sense of it, and I have nothing to back it up. I also can’t be bothered (right now) to check iFixit for what chips are related to power management.
But the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini have the same hardware overall, minus screen size and battery. Same for 12 and 12 Mini.
Agreed, but the bigger issue seems to be the software side...Apple's hardware teams are absolutely killing it, though I'm pretty sure the design and hardware people are working at least partly at the office.
Yeah, that's why they originally gave it to the iPhone SE 2 and SE 3, 6, 6S, 7, 8, X, XS, 11 Pro and 12 Pro. The plot was to pressure only the tiny number of XR and mini owners to upgrade, and only until the 14 was released. Diabolical!
I swear you conspiracy theorists don't even try anymore.
I'm on an iphone 11 Pro and I have the battery % in my status bar in iOS 16, not 16.1
Have you checked the settings? Probably it turned off after updating.
Otherwise it must be a big. Feature is there on iPhone 11 Pro (or on all notch phones now with iOS 16.1).
But it did. Do you think it is really critical that everything that everyone wants has to happen before it's even wanted. And I don't believe for a second that given all the hate thrown at Apple on nearly everything article that Apple cares to fix anything suggesed from MR users unless they absolutely have to. I certainly don't blame them.
It could be worse… look how battery % level looks while charging now
(iOS 16.0)
White font on green… who needs readability?