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

[mrat93]

Apple needs to slow down or else they’ll have nothing to introduce with iOS 17.

 

[JCCL]

Apple with Beta 6: Lol no, gonna reverse it.

Only to show up in the release version, but for iPhone 14 only (only half joking here)

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

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

 

[Sammy in SoCal]

Is this, like, a joke?

They needed five years?

Really?

It was actually one of the reasons people didn’t like the notch because it took up valuable space at the top for information like battery percentage, or so people thought. Now they just stuck the number in the battery icon, so I share your disbelief

 

[HeavenDynamic]

Yes

Thanks. Always found it stressful.

 

[MrENGLISH]

REVOLUTIONARY!!!

But seriously, why did this take so long to be implemented?

 

[alexandr]

Suddenly I'm less excited about a notchless phone 🙂))

 

[ignatius345]

How did it take five betas for them to add it

LOL, they're betas. Don't expect a polished release until it's final. (And even then, sometimes not 🙄)

 

[IMPOSSIBLEMAN]

Now Apple, please give us an Always-On numbers row on top of the keyboard.

 

[boak]

Interested to know what does it look like when the battery background is shorter than the numbers.

In other words, Say it is 50% - are the numbers two different colors since the background on the 5 will be white and the 0 will be clear?

Looks like it will always be white-filled

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

REVOLUTIONARY!!!

But seriously, why did this take so long to be implemented?

Blame the Notch? That's the only thing I can think of.

 

[BrownyQ]

That's nice. I'll proceed to never use the feature because knowing the number does absolutely nothing for me personally.

But I'm happy for those that can't properly function without knowing an arbitrary numerical estimate on remaining battery percentage.

 

[curnalpanic]

Interested to know what does it look like when the battery background is shorter than the numbers.

Smaller number should fit inside a smaller battery, no?

 

[Moonlight]

These screenshots with 80 or 78 are not what speaks to me. Show me one that says 6 and I will relate 🙂

 

[DaPizzaMan]

Now what are people going to complain about?

 

[Danoc]

Can it be turned off? I have battery anxiety and I don't want to see the percentage going down while using the device.

 

[antiprotest]

Oh let's see...how many years did that take them when they could have done this on day one?

Pathetic.

 

[Premium1]

Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kylo83]

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

 

[BootsWalking]

This should take up about 5 minutes in the next Apple event. "We have designed the most incredible, the most sophisticated, the most revolutionary battery percentage display ever seen on an iPhone. Marry Ann is here to tell you about it..."

 

[contacos]

Makes me realize that I am getting mostly hyped about UI changes, which rarely happen to iOS nowadays unfortunately 😅

 

[cigz]

Interested to know what does it look like when the battery background is shorter than the numbers.

In other words, Say it is 50% - are the numbers two different colors since the background on the 5 will be white and the 0 will be clear?

you won't know cause no matter what % of the battery is, it's filled like it's full

 

[mthomas184]

Only to show up in the release version, but for iPhone 14 only (only half joking here)

But probably not wrong lol

 

[ElioLugaru]

At least its back, i kinda hated having to open the Control Center or use the Battery Widget to see my battery level on my 13 Pro Max.

 

[Mendoza_559]

Interested to know what does it look like when the battery background is shorter than the numbers.

In other words, Say it is 50% - are the numbers two different colors since the background on the 5 will be white and the 0 will be clear?

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