What? Why? With the percentage shown... you can see at a glance what the battery level is... 100 is 100... 78 is 78... i mean really.... why?
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Latest iOS 16.1 Beta Tweaks Battery Status Bar to Show Visual Charge Level
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This is great news! I disabled the battery percentage but will turn it back on when 16.1 arrives.
Agreed.
I've found it so much easier to just glance at the icon and narrow it down to simple estimations on battery life. "Full", "mostly full", "about half", "less than half", "low battery" (when red).
But good on all those information addicts who want that number to be displayed.
Yep. And now the numbers on 50% white/black are harder to read than the same numbers on a solid background.
While I can foresee this introducing some optical funkiness when battery drain levels fall "anywhere within the percentage numbers," I do like the added "visual drain" element.
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Finally! I mentioned that apple should do this (let the battery indicator change to reflect the state of charge as it declines) right after they implemented showing the percentage within the icon.
And people (apologists) on here ridiculed me and told me what for? Why can’t I just look at the percentage blah blah blah. I’m glad apple is listening to feedback and reverting the indicator to function as it has for several years…
And people (apologists) on here ridiculed me and told me what for? Why can’t I just look at the percentage blah blah blah. I’m glad apple is listening to feedback and reverting the indicator to function as it has for several years…
I really liked this type of battery display back when I jailbroke my iPhones years ago 😂
what do you mean? ...what is wrong with notifications as they exist in 16.1?
Never said it was useless. Just more it wasn't anything worth complaining in my personal experience. You're entitled to your opinion.
Same as always on display not saying it's useless either but I can certainly live without it. It looks nice but I have a feeling when I buy an iphone that supports it I'll likely turn it off. More so because I don't usually leave my phone sitting out but we'll see.
Nothing really, I just strongly dislike the new notification lock screen in ios16 in general. I dont like that they come up from the bottom, I find that I am missing notifications because of it. If you swipe down from the top to view them, you still have to swipe up from the bottom. I just prefer the notification style of essentially all previous OS versions.
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When I have to squint my eyes to make out the reading., when I have my reading glasses on no problem. Regardless, this is a welcome improvement, glasses or no glasses.
This will make it harder to read. This is a step backwards.
If you couldn't read the numbers on a solid background, you're going to be lost now that they are on a 50% solid background.
Now for everyone who is obsessed over battery health, they should add a widget for the lockscreen.
Maybe they will give us a toggle to chose between 16.0/16.1 styles? This way everybody will be happy.
Is it only me that prefers just the percentage number without the changing graphic behind ?? Looks so much cleaner and easier to read, if I wanted the bar to go down I wouldn’t want the percentage number. Might be the only one with this opinion
Brilliant ? Just what you’d expect and what any other oem does
Unles brilliant is a word to express your happiness about it
I think they should put one on the Always on Display either next to or under the Time