How to show battery percentage on iPhone 12

This is stupid. A graphic of a battery doesn’t tell me how many minutes I have to find a charger like a percentage does. Give us the option to chose, obviously there’s plenty of us that this this is idiotic.

Just got my shiny new 12... and no battery percentage. I have been getting iPhones since iPhone 3 and have been in the Apple ecosystem for over a decade. This is the first time I was bothered enough to sign into discussions.apple.com. I hope they will remedy this.

Agreed! Spent 10 or 15 minutes on my new iPhone 12 trying to locate batt percentage. Then reading comments to discover the “top right swipe action” that does not allow permanent placement of the percentage. Agree, provide option of a batt image or a percentage if it is a problem of room on the screen. This is my sixth iPhone since 2006. It may be my last. Many other options are available and my buying experience and switch-over to this 12 has not been smooth.

I'm not going to suggest to apple how they can fix the battery percentage problem but I will say this: I expect a few things when I pick up my phone, the time, strength of my phone and WiFi signals and how much battery do I have left before I need to plug in. All the other stuff, messages, emails, camera, apps, flashlight, music, etc. are important too but the battery percentage is like a gas gauge; I want to see it every time I turn on the engine without scrolling or swiping.

Fix it.

I agree the battery percentage is a MUST and the silly over sized widget or expecting us to keep dragging the screen down to see it does not work. Please Apple get rid of the useless battery icon and give us the good old percentage back. Still cannot believe some software engineer thought they had a good idea to get rid of a very important and useful thing like the battery percentage from the top of the phone.

Put down my vote for percentage number over icon as well. It seems to me the percentage should replace the icon all together and then have the percentage change to 'green' when the phone is plugged-in...no?

It boggles my mind how anybody at Apple could come up with this change that actively makes the user experience worse.

Adding a gadget or swiping to the control center are not solutions: They all require user action.

All I want is to take one look at my phone, locked or unlocked, and instantly and exactly see how much % I have left without any extra inputs. Something that worked perfectly fine for over a decade on Apple devices and now is just gone, replaced by a tiny bar that leaves me mostly guessing instead of actually knowing.

Please give us an option to change this, I'm even completely fine with missing out on the bar and just having a %, anything but the current implementation is fine, but the current one is actively agitating me over my new iPhone 12 mini, which is not something that should be a thing.

It is a very retrograde step - I cannot fathom *why* Apple have done this!

My old iPhone 8 has it - very hand, without having to take up the space of 4 icons with a widget, or swiping down, to glance and see the % left.

Apple - please listen, and fix this, it must be simple to do!

It's the percentage I think we would all like to see back, what I don't want is the silly battery icon to go red, orange just when I go out, please Apple give us the percentage back and not the out of place silly huge widget

Just dropped $1000 on the 12 pro because my old 6s was done. No battery percentage on the screen?? Bring that back, it's information that everyone looks for when they pick up their phone. Terrible oversight, shows a clear disconnect between Apple and its customers.

I’m with the rest...to have the percentage only show up when the phone screen is turned on is useless especially when it disappears immediately. The fact that the value shows up tells me it’s somewhere in there and could be accessed without much work.

I cannot understand why this error was made I know people say there is no space, yet there is space for the useless battery icon. If Apple cared for their users I think they could take the battery icon off the top and replace it with the much needed battery percentage.

Swiping down or adding a widget doesn't solve the problem. Apple needs to seriousl reconsider/bring back the previous battery display. If your hands are full, you have your phone regularly locked because of small hands in your things all teh time, it's extra work for the user compared to a display the at shows 24/7 even when the phone is locked.

Since the last update and upgrade for me to the 12 mini and a macbook pro m1 chip, I have had to google everything, with the m1 chip my Finder menu was not showing per the Apple advice instructions. most default preferences i had on previous Mac products were unchecked, and I had to hunt them all downa gain to get started. the phone menu on the 12 min/ios14 regularly disappears and i can't hang up, change from speaker phone, etc. , without an extra step on the part of the user.

REducing visibilty of menus/statuses for the user just means extra work for the customer-i.e. NOT good design and the opposite of the real legacy of Dieter Rams. I may move to android next time after being a Mac user since I was 5 years old. Disappointing.

We all know this or if you don't mind removing 4 normal widgets from your home screen you can add the huge out of place battery widget. Apple says there is no room for the battery percentage yet there is room for the battery icon ?

will Apple sort this out I don't think so now.

Apple, please put the battery percentage back in on the iPhone 12 mini, etc.

my old iPhone 7 still has it with 14.6.

you could have made a much better design choice on this.

the one you did make is bad and annoying.

please revise very soon,

thank you.