The new iPhone 12 doesn’t have the options to show the battery percentage inside the battery icon all the time like the iPad has.
control centre shows the percentage but I need to use a swipe down to see that
is there a way to enable battery percentage inside the battery icon so that I can see it all the time.
This is how iPad shows percentage of the battery.
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iPhone 12, iOS 14
Kouski1 wrote: "I wish apple would bring this option back (...) Please apple fix this..."
Here's the place to ask Apple to fix it:
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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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
Brilliantly simple suggestion....it could even go amber when down to 20%, or red when 5%....
Even without the colours, I cannot see why this backward step.
Only possibility is that it sucks a tiny extra bit of battery?
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.
If the battery percentage is so incredibly important to you, doesn't that widget with the huge % value exactly fit your need?
Not obsessing about each and every percent of battery and instead going by a rough estimate can be quite therapeutic. You should try it
Swipe Down On Your Locksreen, No Wodget Required
Yes a shame they left the battery percentage off this model and when they say there is no room well we know that is not true as the useless battery icon is still on the top of the phone.
"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.
Yes I see there is less room but the room taken up by the to me unless battery icon could be used for the battery "percentage" something I think most iPhone user miss. As for the widget you have to lose 4 of your icon to make room for the huge battery widget which to me looks out of place.
No I believe most of use would welcome the battery percentage back on the top instead of a battery icon
Just had an update and the first thing I did was to go to battery but no change I was hoping the percentage was there again and we could replace the useless battery image with that top bar battery percentage again.
I have the 12 mini the first upgrade since the original SE, it's not as small as the lovely SE but a good compromise and as small as we will ever get now. Its a great phone but I really do hate not having the percentage on the top bar all the time and really really hate that huge percentage midget
Just had an update and the first thing I did was to go to battery but no change I was hoping the percentage was there again and we could replace the useless battery image with that top bar battery percentage again.
I have the 12 mini the first upgrade since the original SE, it's not as small as the lovely SE but a good compromise and as small as we will ever get now. Its a great phone but I really do hate not having the percentage on the top bar all the time and really really hate that huge percentage midget
There is no more proof needed that Apple does not care about usability than the removal of this feature. What could they possibly be thinking? it’s as insulting as just about anything Apple could do.
it’s simply this: you don’t need to easily know your battery percentage.
Just like you can’t know that BT is on, or to know field strength, etc.
Apple ain’t what it used to be.
How to show battery percentage on iPhone 12
