iOS 16 Beta 5: Battery Percentage Now Displayed in iPhone Status Bar

[randomthoughts]

Doesn't iPadOS already display the battery %?

It does, but I meant the new update to the UI that shows the number within the battery icon. iOS also already showed the battery percentage in the Control Center view.

 

[Jerhen]

What about iPhone 11 Pro?

 

[bejib66000]

Dumbest thing ever removing it in the first place. Should've at least given an option...it's probably the most important info next to signal strength.

Agreed. Same issue with missing silent mode indicator 🔕. Apple should bring back it too.

 

[bejib66000]

First new emoji and now this. Next thing you know they will add a built in calculator to the iPad.😄

And missing multiple users (accounts) feature, I hope. Currently, it's available only for pupils at schools, but not for anyone else for some incomprehensible reason.

 

[bejib66000]

Maybe in 3 years they will let me remove the home bar lol

Or for me an option to display a missing silent mode indicator 🔕.

 

[bluecoast]

Feels like someone accidentally put this iOS 12 feature in the product roadmap icebox a few years ago and suddenly noticed it was still there the other week… 🫢

 

[bejib66000]

Looks like it will be full all the time. Only thing that changes is the number. But I could be wrong.

And color.

 

[August West]

Yay!

 

[Thebrochure]

Congrats iPhone users. Your phone's OS is one step closer to finally catching up to iOS 6.

 

[bluecoast]

First new emoji and now this. Next thing you know they will add a built in calculator to the iPad.😄

The calculator app will never appear on iPad as it’s meant for creative professionals who don’t need to add/subtract etc. 🤔

 

[Neebee]

When is Apple going to add Wi-Fi and data speeds in the status bar for North American users which has been available for many years on foreign models?

 

[klasma]

Only complaint I have is that from a distance the icon looks like it indicates a full battery when it’s only partially charged. I realize this is a result of it not being practical to split the contrast of the text over partially depleted battery, but this is going to take some getting used to as at a glance I thought I had a full battery until I looked closely.

Right, they should have just the percentage (with percent sign) without the “pill” icon. Maybe it’s because there’s not enough space to add the “charging” thunderbolt on the side, so they revert to the “charging” icon when charging instead of showing the percentage?

 

[klasma]

And missing multiple users (accounts) feature support, I hope. Currently, it's available only for pupils at schools, but not for everyone else for some incomprehensible reason.

The reason is very comprehensible: more iPads sold if they can’t be conveniently shared.

 

[Feyl]

I honestly can’t understand this obsession. If you look at the percentage all the time it literally feels like the battery drains faster.

 

[bejib66000]

Amazing! Now add an option to display the missing permanent silent mode indicator 🔕 and I’m happy.

 

[reklex]

Looks like only OLED devices received it

classic Apple

 

[NewYorkRanger]

From my current testing...it looks like it doesn't. I'm at 63% and it is solid black or white with the large number. I think the battery likely just turns yellow/red/green depending on the status and you can't "see" the percentage if you have the number enabled.

So far I actually find it kind of annoying and ugly, especially if you have a dark home wallpaper and open an app like mail, it calls way too much attention to itself being so large compared to the wifi/network icons. Should either be a smaller icon or filled in gray vs solid black.

Looks like the battery is now going to stay full looking since the examples show a battery in 80 and 87 percent. To me that appears to make things more confusing. Also don’t like that it does not show a percent “Perhaps they have removed the graphic charge indicator in order to fit the numbers in? that would suck as I found the quick check of the graphic more useful than the approximate detail of the numbers.

Perhaps they have removed the graphic charge indicator in order to fit the numbers in? that would suck as I found the quick check of the graphic more useful than the approximate detail of the numbers.

Thanks all - looks like you are all right, the graphic never changes, looks like it will always "be full" with the number simply shown.

I actually think I prefer it the current way without the number!

 

[klasma]

I honestly can’t understand this obsession. If you look at the percentage all the time it literally feels like the battery drains faster.

It’s not about frequency. It’s that when you glance at the battery, you don’t want to be forced to do an awkward extra swipe to see if its at 25% or 35% (say). Another way to state this is that the battery icon does a relatively poor job of conveying the amount of battery left. A bar graph with five vertical bars that shrink one after the other would be more precise, for example: “llllı” for ~95%.

 

[SenorWhyMe]

Another way (if the situation allows) is to say “Hey Siri, battery”.

why would i do that in public randomly

 

[SenorWhyMe]

Great to see! But, controversially.. Am I the only one that prefers the current design over this new one?

it’s the same design you choose to keep it off; no one is forcing ya to have numbers, this is just for people like me that hated that the percentage was gone iphone x and up

 

[Shirasaki]

i can’t believe it actually took this long… but hooray

Yeah, 10 years and finally it is here.

It only took five years!

Nope, 10 years. They took it away in iOS 11 for iPhone X.

Is this, like, a joke?

They needed five years?

Really?

They needed 10 years to develop this feature. Not 5. But only need 1 year to take the feature away in iOS 11.

 

[klasma]

why would i do that in public randomly

That’s why I wrote “if the situation allows”. Jeez.

 

[Radeon85]

Hallelujah, it's about bloody time. Only a few years late!

 

[1rottenapple]

I wonder what took so long lol like they waited and waited

 

[JGIGS]

You will appreciate it even more with the iPhone 14 Always on Display. Don't ever have to pull down or tap the screen no longer. The battery percentage will be there forever

I mean I can visual tell already when my batter is getting low but ya nice to have. I won't be buying a new iphone anytime soon since my iphone 12 should have some some good years still ahead.

I just always thought the level of complaints with it not there was a bit over the top though.