How to set battery level notification on MacBook, when it is under 20 %? (macOS Ventura)

Actually, it was bit annoying getting a notification every minute while the battery was at 80%, so I modified my shortcut:

You'll want to create a file called battery.txt which just contains any number initially, and modify the shortcut to use your filepath for battery.txt. This file will store the previous battery level the last time the script ran, so that we can check if the battery level changed since the last time the script ran.

You're welcome.

I was wondering the same thing but I didn't want to say anything. 😎

Just to add, I believe I read somewhere you will get a notification if the battery falls below 3%.

I believe it is closer to 2% and that is too darn little time to procrastinate…

2% is below 3%. :)

Mine's always plugged in so makes no never mind to me. 😎

Hey there! Which app was used to do this? I can't seem to find it on my MacBook, but I've done it on my iPhone.

Can you please expand on what program this is? My Automator app looks nothing like this :(

Ahh, it's the Shortcuts app

Trying to do it on Sonoma 14.4.1, will see soon if it works! Thx for the script!

that was the first shortcut in my life :)

Thank you !

one Question: how can I trigger that shortcut every time my laptop is "on"?

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I was also looking for a quick way to set notifications for when my battery was at a certain level, and it looks like you can trigger shortcuts from command line so I did set it up to run every minute using crontab:

Created a shortcut (can change the if statement to what you want):

Added a CronTab to run this shortcut every minute:

• Open the Terminal app
• Type this command in Terminal to open the crontab editor:

env EDITOR=nano crontab -e

• Paste this line in the crontab editor:

* * * * * shortcuts run "80\% Battery Remaining"

• Exit the crontab editor--if you're not familiar with nano you can exit like this:
  • ctrl + o
  • enter
  • ctrl + x

Now the shortcut should run every minute, and you'll get a notification when the battery level equals 80%.

If you want to check your crontab, you can run `crontab -l` in Terminal. If you get any errors, it'll usually show up in mail which you can view by running `mail` in Terminal.

If you want to trigger the shortcut to run every 5 minutes or some other time interval, you can use this tool to replace the "* * * * *" part:

https://crontab.guru/

Also, there's probably a better way to do this, since the shortcut I'm using wouldn't account for cases where the battery level drops below 80% really quickly (i.e. battery level drops from 81% to 79% within a minute), and it would notify you every minute while the battery is at 80%.