Battery life is one of the most important features of a smartphone, as is the ability to rapidly see how much of a charge you have remaining. While vague battery indicators can provide users with a ...

The long-lost toggle "Battery Percentage" is finally returning this year, as Apple confirmed that it would be included in the iOS 16 developer beta. This icon was once ditched by the Cupertino giant ...

Just a few days after Apple reintroduced a battery percentage icon on the latest iPhones, developer Rony Fadel has updated his popular Batteries app with a new option to enable a similar looking ...

It’s been two days since Apple shocked the world by adding the battery indicator back to the iPhone status bar in the latest iOS beta, and people are only just starting to find their minds again. In ...

In years past, you could toggle on a setting that showed the exact percentage of battery life your iPhone had left. The percentage appeared right next to the battery icon — which, by default, just had ...

Perhaps the biggest Apple news of the week is that the battery percentage icon is finally back in the iPhone’s status bar with the release of iOS 16 beta 5. While it’s been a surprisingly ...

The new battery percentage icon that Apple introduced in the fifth developer beta of iOS 16 is still not available on the standard iPhone 11, iPhone XR, iPhone 12 mini, and iPhone 13 mini in the sixth ...

Apple's battery percentage icon has reportedly returned to the iPhone's status bar as part of a handful of changes in its fifth beta version of iOS 16. The percentage, which was moved to the iPhone's ...

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