Missing battery percentage in menu bar

unable to find option to add battery % to menu bar, its not in battery settings in either system settings or control center

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.3

Posted on Mar 14, 2026 12:22 PM

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Posted on Mar 14, 2026 12:28 PM

System Settings > Menu Bar, tick the box to show the Battery and click Battery Options and toggle ON the option to Show Percentage.




It also shows in the Control Center widget.



(Note that the icon with the plug in my Menu Bar above is not Apple's but iStat Menus.)

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