How do you turn on Battery Percentage?

This feature does not exist on the iPod. There is no way of getting the battery charge percentage to show next to the battery icon on the top of the screen. You can get the % from a 3rd party app or on the opening screen when you turn on the iPod while it is connected to a charging source.

settings > battery > battery percentage. (on)

Go to the leftmost Home screen, then swipe to the right (to reveal another screen). This displays the widgets. If the battery section is not showing up, scroll down to the bottom of the screen and tap the Edit button. From there, you can add the battery widget.

Swipe down on any home page in your iPod. Type "Settings". Now go to the "Battery" Section then switch on "Battery Percentage". It should show the percentage of your battery on the top of your iPod.

Thank you bobjkln, I thought I was going crazy...

See my next post, for additional information for alecschwa and anyone else looking for the battery percentage.

Ooops! Looks like that won't be happening just yet. Apologies.

Perhaps someone should clarify, is this feature available on the iPhone?

Note that alecschwa stated that he/she had an phone (is it even an iPhone?), but posted in the iPod Touch arena and had iPod Touch (6th gen) in the sign-off .

Yes. It works on iPhone. Also, to verify that it is a iPhone, if there is a case, take it off. If it is a clear case, no worries. Now just check the text on the back of your device. If it's iPod, well bad luck. If it's iPhone, well great! Another way to identify it is the home button. Check if there is a square on it. If it has it, it's a iPod or old iPhone. If you think it is the old one, do the first thing I told you to do. If it doesn't have a square, you have a iPhone. Hope this helped.

settings > battery > battery percentage. (on)

Not on my iPod Touch - running iOS 12.1.1