So the iPhone 11 doesn't get it but the older phones like X do, another reason to despise Apple ! I am sure they sit around a table and discuss how to annoy their customer base, this is why I now fit my own batteries and refuse to upgrade, this company doesn't care about its customers and it only cares about money, its stance on Taiwan proves it, The Vogon Tim Cook would feed his Grandmother to the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal if it meant saving 1 cent
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iOS 16 Beta 5: Battery Percentage Now Displayed in iPhone Status Bar
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I am so glad you can turn this off.
I know it will annoy me!
I know it will annoy me!
Im a bit annoyed about this too since i have an 11 but the PPI of the 12 and 13 are significantly higher than the 11 or XR. Its 460 for the 12 and 13 and 326 for the 11 and XR. I'm guessing apple can do it but it may look too blurry for it to pass apples standards. Just a guess though.
2532-by-1170 vs 1792-by-828 is over 40% more horizontal pixels for the 12 and 13.
The X has a much higher PPI than the 11. I'm willing to guess the battery percentage looked pixelated or blurry at the lower pixels for the 11 and XR.
Well no, it didn't take 25 people 5 years working 24/7 to implement it.
The number is a unreliable guess due to charge curves, battery chemistry, battery aging and even the combo thereof. It doesn't convey an accurate actual number at all and it gets worse over time so it's a lie. So they felt the fuzzy reporting of a image was better and in a way more correct.
However some people like that false feeling of absolute certainty and other just feel they can glance faster at a number than a graphic. Whatever the reason these are valid concerns and it's good they made in an option now.
I hope we’re talking Church’s Chicken crispier. They’re the best. 🤪
Probably the same for the mini, too, since the interface I read years ago was a shrunk version of the full resolution of the Pro.
Actually, low power mode always would turn on battery percentage in notchless phones.
Honestly now, why was this not in 2017 with the release of the iPhone X? Just seems odd it took this long.
You mean like every other phone that displays a percentage and that is what people rely on? It's less accurate than a graphical battery level gauge?
I hope you’re right my friend
The wording makes it kind of unclear to me ,the way they say 12 and 13 .. and also xs. Then later on they say not on the 11 ..got me confused
I do hope your interpretation is the one
That’s exactly why it took them 5 years. It wasn’t because of space, they just didn’t want to deal with the **** they dealt with before when you could go from 30% to 1%
I remember when I had an iPhone 6. The better percentage would show 30% but then if I started doing some intensive tasks it would show 1% in a split second. So you couldn’t rely at all on the percentage
No indicator for the Mini phones is a tragedy and a dumb move by Apple.
Apple has always been one step forward, three steps back.
Apple has always been one step forward, three steps back.
Not to mention that the 13 mini has a smaller notch than the 12 mini...
didnt realize you dont have the maturity to recognize what's being said, allow me to bring it closer to an ELI5, just with a bit of a higher vocabulary because i have to stop holding your hand at some point.
battery percentage visible without additional input used to be a ubiquitous feature of iOS & iPad OS. arbitrarily, apple removed it to shove it into control center.
this represents a part of a bigger issue with apple, which is that they assume the user needs things
a) dumbed down
and
b) has no need to be given the right to change things as they see fit
apple assumes 100% of their users are drooling morons. seeing the commentary around MR sometimes, i might have to roll my eyes and perhaps agree with them in some part, but it's obnoxious because the hand holding strictly comes in the form of limitations, and not necessarily simplicity.
the removal of the battery percentage is just apple saying "the user couldnt possibly handle knowing, or have the need to know their precise battery level. we'll just give them an arbitrary bar so they can think to themselves: 'oh, i've kinda got like maybe half juice sorta.'"
same way that the user couldn't possibly have a need to have access to a file manager, and the simple ease of connected external storage devices, and then eventually they add that to iPad and everyone loses it like it's a groundbreaking feature. it's not, it should have been considered expected.
but apple continuously makes these choices, and people (who i will not name but may recognize themselves here very quickly) will kiss the ground the walk on and love them for giving them "new" features....that they took away years ago for no reason.
but yeah, sure. reduce it to "a simple swipe is exhausting". because it was *that* insignificant, so MR wrote an article about it and by the time I showed up it had 100 comments ecstatic about the change.
