{"id":8892,"date":"2024-05-01T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=10415"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T22:01:12","slug":"how-to-display-the-battery-percentage-in-your-macs-menu-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/how-to-display-the-battery-percentage-in-your-macs-menu-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Display the Battery Percentage in Your Mac\u2019s Menu Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, the battery icon in your Mac laptop\u2019s 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\u2019t where you might expect in System Settings &gt; Battery. Instead, you\u2019ll find it in System Settings &gt; Control Center, where you need to turn on both \u201cShow in Menu Bar\u201d and \u201cShow Percentage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10402\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/how-to-display-the-battery-percentage-in-your-macs-menu-bar.png\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 610px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/how-to-display-the-battery-percentage-in-your-macs-menu-bar.png 610w, https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/how-to-display-the-battery-percentage-in-your-macs-menu-bar-1.png 480w\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by Adam Engst)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, the battery icon in your Mac laptop\u2019s 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\u2019t where you might expect in System Settings &gt; Battery. Instead, you\u2019ll find it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,25,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8901,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions\/8901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}