Display the Battery % on Your Mac’s Menu Bar

If you’re tired of trying to interpret how full your MacBook’s battery is from its menu bar icon, here’s how to get it to display a percentage as well.

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June 10, 2024

By default, the battery icon in your Mac laptop’s menu bar shows how full your battery is. Clicking it reveals the exact percentage, but you can also set macOS to display the battery percentage next to the icon. The setting isn’t where you might expect in System Settings > Battery. Instead, you’ll find it in System Settings > Control Center, where you need to turn on both “Show in Menu Bar” and “Show Percentage.”

You can also display the percentage of your UPS (battery backup) if it is connected via a USB cable to your Mac Desktop computer.

Tagged: Battery, Power, UPS

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Display the Battery % on Your Mac’s Menu Bar

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June 10, 2024

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