Battery Percentage With New MacBook Pro M1

cazkins wrote:

Thanks very much for getting back to me, I appreciate your help with this. Unfortunately, while the battery shows in the top bar, the percentage doesn't. Unless I'm missing something very obvious (which is possible!) I can't see any option in the system preferences to display the percentage. Is this not available on the latest MacBook Pro? I'll attach a screenshot.

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>System Preferences>Dock& Menu Bar >Battery

cazkins wrote:

Ah, so I wasn't quite in the right place - I didn't realise this was in the Dock & Menu area. Got it. Thank you very much!!

Good computing cazkins —sounds like this solved your problem

Hi cazkins,

Congratulations on your new MacBook Pro! It looks like you are trying to display the battery percentage and you do not see the option to show the percentage in the menu bar. Making sure you can view the battery percentage to keep an eye on how much battery you have left before it needs charged is important. We're happy to help.

Take a look at the link below. When you go to System Preferences > Battery then click on Battery again you should see an option to add to the menu bar.

Monitor your Mac notebook computer’s battery

We hope this helps. Have a good day!

Go to System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar

Find the battery settings there. You'll see the option "Show Percentage"