How do I set the battery percentage on the Home Screen?

To view Battery Percentage on any phone with the Face ID "notch" at the top of the screen open the Control Center by dragging down from the battery icon, or add a battery widget to your Home screen. If you examine the status bar at the top of the screen you will observe that there is no room to put the battery percentage.

See→Use widgets on your iPhone and iPod Touch

Well, which of the other icons in the status line would you be willing to give up in order to have battery percentage? You can always suggest that Apple allow editing of the status line→Product Feedback - Apple

To me everything in the status line is more important than battery percentage: Carrier, time, app location using alert, cellular signal strength, and Wi-Fi signal strength. The only way I can think of is to have a choice between the battery icon and the battery percentage, because there clearly isn’t room for both. But the battery icon carries a lot more information than just the “thermometer” - It show normal mode (clear), plugged in (green), battery low (red), Low Power Mode (amber).

Mikedfulmer wrote:

Thanks, but that only discusses the Control Center battery percentage.

That is incorrect.

Please carefully and completely read the article, in particular the “Use the Batteries widget” section.

Read and follow the article linked above.

An iPhone 8 is not an iPhone 12 Mini.

The 8 has no notch; the 12 Mini does (with no room to show the percentage).

So you can choose........ use the Control Center.... or the Widget.

You’re welcome.