In an updated support document, Apple says that the new battery percentage display is not available on the iPhone XR, iPhone 11, the iPhone 12 mini, and the iPhone 13 mini. Since there’s no mini option expected for iPhone 14, it seems certain it will be on all the new iPhones released this fall.Following iOS 16's public release, Apple has confirmed that users of older generation iPhone models will miss out on the ability to show their iPhone's battery percentage directly in the status bar. It must be space that decides it on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13, however, as all the phones in these series have it apart from the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini. The iPhone 11 has the same screen size as the XR so that may be why it’s not on that phone, or it could be down to the fact that XR and 11 have LCD instead of OLED screens. So, it’s there on the iPhone X, iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, but not the iPhone XR. But it seems it is only available on certain iPhones. That’s right, Of course, it has to be a phone that’s compatible with iOS 16, but as that’s every Face ID iPhone, that’s not the issue. You go to Settings, Battery and then toggle on Battery Percentage. If you have the right iPhone, it’ll come to the next iOS 16 public beta, it looks like. IPhone battery percentage in translucent lettering. This extra thickness gives the space for the percentage figure to appear on the battery background and to be clear and legible. ![]() It’s a noticeably different shape now, stubby and stout. It’s gone for a similar look: instead of showing a white battery icon which depletes to black as the day goes on, in iOS 16 the battery icon stays white completely. Many ignored it while some, such as Huawei, put the percentage figure inside the battery icon. ![]() What did other manufacturers do?Īs other phones adopted notches or peephole cut-outs, lots of companies had to address this issue. If you like to see this detail, and I do, with current software you have to swipe down from the top right corner of the screen to show it. The issue arose because the True Depth Camera System which sits at the top of every iPhone with Face ID, and is commonly referred to as the notch, meant there just wasn’t room to display the battery icon and the percentage of battery charge in figures adjacent to it. So, Apple may tweak things in the coming weeks. There’s still quite a lot of time before iOS 16 goes to general release, even if the next iPhones are coming sooner than expected. That’s true, but then there’s plenty of screen real estate on the iPad, and no notch, so there’s never been a need to elide the percentage from the screen. Other commenters point out that the iPad hasn’t been offered a new battery icon to make the design match. ![]() There’s no way Apple would have introduced something like this if it felt the screen made it illegible. ![]() After all, those phones have resolution of 326 pixels per inch (ppi), while the OLED-screened iPhones have 458ppi or more. “Pixel density isn’t high enough, I assume.” I think he’s right. Then, he gave the reason there’s no option for the new design on the iPhone XR and iPhone 11. First of all, he commented on the animation that changed from the new battery-containing-digits to the old battery and adjacent percentage that appears in the Control Center. The gifted 3D artist Ian Zelbo had an interesting take on this. What they have in common is that they are iPhones with LCD, not OLED, displays. They’re big enough, of course, so there must be another reason. But there have been interesting comments about the other two iPhones missing this capability, the iPhone XR and iPhone 11.
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