First, some iPhones didn't get the battery percentage meter ... in the status bar on supported devices, the battery icon itself always shows as full, whether the phone is idle, charging or ...

And how people monitor their phone’s charge can be telling. Just under two in five Americans (39 percent) say they rely solely on the battery bar to track power. The rest — 61 percent ...

The survey of 2,000 Americans pinpointed precisely what level of remaining phone ... battery level visible, you’re in the minority — 39% of Americans opt to judge their level of juice on the ...

It will be marked red when battery percentage falls below 20%. It will be marked yellow if Low Power Mode is enabled. Lines underneath the main bar chart ... longer for your phone to reach 100% ...

However, you might not be doing yourself ― or your battery ― any favors in the long run. You might have heard that charging your cell phone battery and leaving it plugged in once it hits a ...

You will get less and less use out of your phone and it may even die at the most inopportune times. Most BlackBerry users would be lost without the battery meter on their phone, and every ...

so every phone’s timing might be different. “The battery meter on your phone is a good estimate of how much battery is left, but at most, it’s an estimate,” Shi said. “Most companies are ...

There’s even software support to make the status bar permanently ... at 50% brightness, the battery life drain was in the single digits. In general use, the phone always saw a full day of ...

However, you might not be doing yourself ― or your battery ― any favors in the long run. Keeping your phone plugged in once it hits a full charge and consistently charging it to 100% keeps the ...