How to indicate your telephone’s battery share in iOS 16

I adopted these steps on two telephones: an iPhone 11 operating iOS 16.0.2 and an iPhone 14 Pro Max on iOS 16.1.

The very first thing to find out is whether or not you may add the battery share to your iPhone’s standing bar as a result of not all models support it. iPhone 8 fashions and older embody this legacy function in addition to second- and third-generation iPhone SE gadgets. iPhone X fashions and newer assist it excluding these gadgets:

With a telephone that does assist the share indicator, there are simply two fast steps to get it into the standing bar:

You’ll know your telephone doesn’t assist the function should you don’t see Battery Percentage as an possibility. Fear not, this can be a job for widgets. 

If you’re operating iOS 16, you may add a widget to your lock display screen displaying your telephone’s remaining battery share. It’s not fairly the identical as having it all the time seen on the prime of your display screen, but it surely’s one other technique to get the identical information at a look. To add a battery indicator widget, observe these steps:

By default, the widget will present the remaining battery for different gadgets, like an AirPods case when you’ve got one, however you may customise it to indicate remaining battery life on your iPhone.

To do that, double-tap the battery widget and toggle the Automatic setting off. A Devices menu will seem under the toggle; faucet it and select your iPhone if it isn’t robotically chosen. Tap Done to avoid wasting your new lock display screen, and also you’re all set. Every time you wake your telephone’s show, your battery share will probably be proper there to reassure or terrify you relying on how excessive or low it’s.