Missing battery icon in menu bar of iMac

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hpwong Author

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Missing battery icon in menu bar of iMac

Using iMac using MacOS Catalina

Suddenly lost battery icon in menu bar.

Used to be able to see battery levels in magic mouse, keyboard etc.

How to restore this missing icon?

Help appreciated.

Rgds,

HPWong

Posted on Oct 27, 2020 7:07 AM

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Answer 1

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DeeperDiver

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Oct 27, 2020 3:59 PM in response to hpwong

Add the bluetooth icon to your menubar via the bluetooth option in system preferences.

Once you have the bluetooth icon in your menubar, click on it and hover over whatever keyboard/mouse/trackpad device you want and you'll see the battery level for each one in the popup window.

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Answer 2

Rudegar

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Oct 27, 2020 7:38 AM in response to hpwong

having only had imacs and mac minis I've never seen a battery icon in any of the macOS versions I've run

I view the battery level of my bluetooth devices by clicking the bluetooth icon and choosing the submenus from the context menu, maybe you were using a third party tool which was 32bit and is now not supported by catalina ?

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