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Do you hide or display the battery percentage on your phone?

Percentage of battery icon only?

  • Percentage

    Votes: 457 73.8%

  • Battery icon

    Votes: 162 26.2%
  • Total voters
    619
FernandoRocker

FernandoRocker

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
7,987
México
No matter the OS you are using... iOS, Android, Windows Phone (I'm sure there are dozens out there).

Do you hide or do you display the battery percentage (in numeric format) in your phone, or do you show only the battery icon?

I always display the battery percentage, and I tried to go icon-only a few weeks ago with my new phone but couldn't do it for more than a couple of days. Even though I got a phone with a massive 5100mAh battery (it gives me 10 hours of screen-on-time @ 120Hz), I like to see exactly how much juice left I have.

How about you?
 
Taco_Human

Taco_Human

Member
Jan 6, 2018
4,237
MA
First time iphone user. There's an option to turn it on in the homescreen? I'd like it on, but so far I have to swipe down on the right side of the notch to see the battery life.
 
CreepingFear

CreepingFear

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
16,766
My Pixel 3A shows both battery icon and percentage at the same time in the upper right hand corner.
 
linkboy

linkboy

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,690
Reno
I prefer an icon, but I currently have a percentage up as Samsung OneUI 3.0 only offers a percentage and Good Lock isn't updated yet to fully support 3.0 yet.

It's a bit frustrating as I don't have an icon to let me know my battery is charging.
 
jelly

jelly

Banned
Oct 26, 2017
33,841
What difference does it make than just a bar? I can judge well enough without a percentage that it's 75, 50, 45 etc. more or less and it wouldn't change my habits of charging or usage having a visible percentage.
 
MrCibb

MrCibb

Member
Dec 12, 2018
5,349
UK
%. I just got a new phone and had to find that setting since by default it was just the icon. No point guessing how much battery I got, just tell me flat-out.
 
Fliesen

Fliesen

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,254
FernandoRocker said:
No matter the OS you are using... iOS, Android, Windows Phone (I'm sure there are dozens out there).

Do you hide or do you display the battery percentage (in numeric format) in your phone, or do you show only the battery icon?

I always display the battery percentage, and I tried to go icon-only a few weeks ago with my new phone but couldn't do it for more than a couple of days. Even though I got a phone with a massive 5100mAh battery (it gives me 10 hours of screen-on-time @ 120Hz), I like to see exactly how much juice left I have.

How about you?
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iOS doesn't show battery percentage nowadays, unless you drag down control center.

 
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FernandoRocker

FernandoRocker

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
7,987
México
My phone has these 3 options:.

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Tobor

Tobor

Member
Oct 25, 2017
28,500
Richmond, VA
I absolutely love Apple hiding the percentage in Control Center. I have learned to not worry about the percentage, and it's a much better experience.
 
G_O

G_O

Member
Oct 28, 2017
1,960
Percentage always. I get anxiety as soon as my phone hits 49%

I don't think I've ever run out of battery on any device as I am constantly charging them
 
Breqesk

Breqesk

Member
Oct 28, 2017
5,230
Percentage. The icon just doesn't offer sufficient detail, particularly as I have a four year old phone with a four year old battery—I need to keep an eye on the percentage to have some idea of when it's gonna die on me.
 
345

345

Member
Oct 30, 2017
7,386
no percentage unless i'm actively testing battery life. it's just anxiety-inducing otherwise. highly recommend turning it off for anyone who keeps it on — very freeing.

it's not like these percentages are 100% accurate to the ratio of charged electrons anyway.
 
WordsintheWater

WordsintheWater

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,506
linkboy said:
I prefer an icon, but I currently have a percentage up as Samsung OneUI 3.0 only offers a percentage and Good Lock isn't updated yet to fully support 3.0 yet.

It's a bit frustrating as I don't have an icon to let me know my battery is charging.
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Just updated yesterday to OneUI 3.0 and I have both. Using a Galaxy s20 Ultra and you can choose to remove the percentage.
 

Deleted member 9330

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 26, 2017
6,990
I used to do %, but more recent iPhones decided not to use the space for it. On older phones when I had the choice, watching the exact percentage tick down during the day caused a certain amount of totally unneeded battery anxiety, so I turned it off. Now that the new phones hide it behind a swipe there's no complaints from me: no over-analyzing my usage when just using the phone, but I can get the exact number at any time
 

Deleted member 46493

User requested account closure
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Aug 7, 2018
5,231
I'm home all day so it's useless. If I see the little battery icon get on the lower side, I just charge it.
 
super-famicom

super-famicom

Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
25,207
My Google Pixel 4a displays both for me and I don't think I changed any settings. But if I had to choose, definitely percentage.
 
linkboy

linkboy

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,690
Reno
WordsintheWater said:
Just updated yesterday to OneUI 3.0 and I have both. Using a Galaxy s20 Ultra and you can choose to remove the percentage.
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I have a Note 20 and it doesn't give me a battery icon.

The only icons I have are the clock, cellular, wifi and the S-Pen indicator.

I might do a factory reset later and see if that brings it back (I'm thinking it might be a good lock incompatiblity thing)
 

Deleted member 24079

Banned
Oct 29, 2017
3,287
On Android I had it on percentage and now on iOS I just have the icon and I check percentage only when it turns red. On android with my galaxy s7 and s8+ you'd want to know if you were getting down to 20% because you don't have much time left. On iOS I can ride the red icon for the rest of the day most likely
 
Auron Kale

Auron Kale

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,352
San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay)
On iOS so I have to swipe down from Control Center to see the percentage but the icon is always there. Since having percentage "hidden" on my homescreen, I'm less anxious and don't really worry about my phone...

...I do have my battery percentage on display on my Apple Watch and that kinda makes me anxious when working despite knowing it'll last all day.
 
Bigwombat

Bigwombat

Banned
Nov 30, 2018
3,416
FernandoRocker said:
My phone has these 3 options:.

wwyqSKG.jpg
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Waaaaaa? What is this dark magic?!?

I have an android but my wife has a smart phone and I play with it and I hate that it doesn't show % unless you slide the screen down.

It's not even my phone and I'm angry at Apple. I'm so dumb

Ravelle said:
One Plus 7t and I have it show a circle.
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The circle looks more intuitive than just the bar. I can tell the % way easier that way and it looks pretty cool
 
lunarworks

lunarworks

Member
Oct 25, 2017
22,169
Toronto
Battery icon's fine. Gives me a rough estimate. On iOS it automatically switches to percentage at 20% anyway, which is when it actually matters.
 
mhayes86

mhayes86

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,249
Maryland
Pixel 2 has the battery icon with its charge % located at the top right by default (or maybe I set it to include the %? I don't recall). It's convenient and unobtrusive.
 
Poemkin

Poemkin

Member
Oct 27, 2017
268
Icon on iOS. It's either charged for the day or it's not, I don't need any other info.
 
RetroMG

RetroMG

Community Resettler
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
6,729
It's funny, my wife and I were JUST talking about this. I commented that she doesn't have the percentage on hers and she said it's because it actively stresses her out to see the number, especially if it falls below 50%.
 
DJ_Lae

DJ_Lae

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,870
Edmonton
Just the battery icon. There's no point in that granular knowledge - knowing that the battery is full, fine, or getting close to empty is more than enough.
 
KarmaCow

KarmaCow

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,161
If I'm in a situation where I need the percentage visible, I shouldn't be using my phone that much to save battery.
 
leafcutter

leafcutter

Member
Feb 14, 2018
1,219
Just the icon. My phone never gets below like 30% in a normal day of use, so it's not important.
 
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