iPhone 3G S: Show Battery Percentage

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon June 23, 2009  
Tag Icon Tagged: Apple iPhone

The new 3G S has several nice, little features. One of my favorites is the ability to show a percentage of the battery life in the upper right hand corner instead of just the battery graphic. Here is how to do it.

More data is better, right?

Show percent of iphone battery life:

1. Click Settings
2. Click General
3. Click Usage
4. Toggle Battery Percentage to ON

iphone 3.0 show battery percent

Editor: Thanks for the comments, guys. Changed to iPhone 3G S instead of iPhone 3.0. I had just assumed it was a software thing since jailbreak phones have been able to use it forever. Crazy that apple decided to give only 3G S hardware access to it.

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  • I dont have this option here. Isnt it only for 3G S version? I have an 3G.
  • Marco
    I don't have this option either. I have a 3G with OS 3.0
  • chiefix
    This a feature that works only for iPhone 3GS.
  • Thanks, everybody. I'll change the title to show that it's for the 3G S.
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  • Mark
    Even more strange is the fact that official App Store apps (like Free Memory or iStat for example) have been able to show you a battery % meter since 2.0 on iPhone and iPhone 3G!!!
  • Just to note that this (as the title suggests) is for the 3G S only... iPhone 3.0 software (as indicated in the Tech Recipes link I followed to this page!) doesn't expose this on a standard iPhone 3G.
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