How to show battery percentage on iPhone 12

Just swipe down from the top-right corner of your display. On iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 8 or earlier, iPad, and iPod touch (7th generation), you can see the battery percentage in the status bar. Go to Settings > Battery and turn on Battery Percentage.

Show the battery percentage on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod ...

I just cannot believe that my new iPhone cannot show the battery percentage on the top right just like my other phones. Oh there is a widget but it's huge you have to take 4 off your most used widgets to install it on the home page. This is without doubt the best phone Apple does at the moment but not having the option of the battery percentage showing on the top just like the older models is a let down. The widget would be OK if it was not so huge and the need to remove 4 normal widgets to make room for it is a real pain. Come on Apple please sort it either give us the top option as before or make the widget a normal size, just upgraded to the 12 mini (great phone and size) but this is a let down.

Please sort it in the next software update ,, Please

It seems the loss of the battery percentage is due to the software upgrade, WHY, now we have to use a huge widget and it's pain, why not give us an option to remove the silly battery on the top right and just have the battery percentage. I could never see the point of that battery indicator anyway but a nice battery indicator in percentages would be useful. Are other a little peeved that the battery percentage is no longer available on the phone all the time and using the huge widget is no substitute, I know I was not happy having to remove 4 widgets from my homepage just to have a battery indicator when it was always on the top right

pr1uk wrote: "To Apple who knows perhaps they cannot be bothered"

Apple bothered to create a Batteries widget. Here's how to add It to your iPhone's Home Screen:

Use widgets on your iPhone and iPod touch

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Kouski1 wrote: "I wish apple would bring this option back (...) Please apple fix this..."

Here's the place to ask Apple to fix it:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

And here's how to add Apple's "Batteries" widget to your iPhone's Home Screen:

Use widgets on your iPhone and iPod touch

Screenshot showing the "Batteries" widget:

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This is a user to user support forum and Apple does not participate here. If you wish to provide feedback to Apple regarding a change you would like to see, or report a bug, then use the feedback link here, Feedback - iPhone - Apple

However, at this point it is not possible to display that on the screen due to the notch at the top of the screen. There is not enough room in the top status bar to display that information. You can get it by swiping down the Control Center.

992_GTS wrote: "Please, Apple..."

Although Apple administers this community, that doesn't include reading each of thousands of daily posts for possible feedback. However, Apple will "read all feedback carefully" here:

iPhone Feedback

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I just bought an iPhone 12 Mini yesterday and I found the same problem (iOS 14.6), however, if you scroll down from the top right screen, you can see the Control Centre with the Battery % as picture. Yes, it takes one more step to see the battery level but this is still practical for everyone.

Well there is not much to do about that though.

Two other things that come to mind are:

The percentage is displayed on the lock screen briefly where the date usually is.

You can put the battery widget onto the today view (you will have to make sure it is enabled from FaceID & Passcode Settings to be accessible when the device is locked) and then swipe right to see the widget.

Sorry but there is no other option to display it. It's just how things are right now.

"battery image or a percentage! "

Always found the battery icon to be of no use other than to show there is a battery inside, if Apple could replace that with the battery percentage now the would be useful. We are all used to seeing the battery percentage on the top of the iPhone it was a surprise to me when that option went and we were made to use a bloody huge battery percentage widget that's needed but looks so out of place on the home screen.

Come on Apple fix this in an upgrade soon please, let's see the percentage on the top every time we use our phone and not have to use that huge widget.

If Apple are listening to their users I think that unless battery icon will go and we will get back the battery percentage on the top of our phones where it belongs. Come on Apple give us the percentage back on the top of our phones and get rid of the bloody wastefully huge screen widget that looks out of place anyway.

percentage instead of the silly battery Icon

"who's with me"

Wow this is such a small thing to apple but a huge thing to its users( including me)!

Big miss by apple and something that really makes me miss my old phone!

dear apple; please give us the little things we want!

Both my husband and I got the iPhone 12 today and have been searching for the battery percentage. One of the first things we did when we got the new phones. Definitely a miss. Please bring the percentage back.

This is how Apple designed the OS for iPhones with full screens since the iPhone X, the notch at the top for Face ID leaves the sides with less space to display extra info system-wide. You can, like what others said, use the widget or simply swipe down from the top right edge, but otherwise, there is no other solution, because this is how Apple designed iOS. Probably hope that iOS 15 has something new related to this.