iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S: Show Battery Percentage
Contributed by David Kirk 
Tagged: Apple iPhone Since the iphone 3GS, several nice, little features have been included. 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. Update: these settings can be found on any modern OS device now including iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices.
More data is better, right?
Be sure that your device has been updated to one of the latest iOS versions. Then follow these steps to show your percent of device’s battery life:
1. Click Settings
2. Click General
3. Click Usage
4. Toggle Battery Percentage to ON
Editor: Thanks for the comments, guys. Changed to iPhone 3GS 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 3GS hardware (and later) access to it.
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Zote said on June 24, 2009
I dont have this option here. Isnt it only for 3G S version? I have an 3G.
Marco said on June 24, 2009
I don’t have this option either. I have a 3G with OS 3.0
chiefix said on June 24, 2009
This a feature that works only for iPhone 3GS.
davak said on June 24, 2009
Thanks, everybody. I’ll change the title to show that it’s for the 3G S.
David Kirk - Founder/Editor said on June 24, 2009
Testing facebook connection…
David Kirk said on June 24, 2009
Testing tech-recipes / twitter conneciton
Mark said on June 25, 2009
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!!!
Mark Wilson said on July 8, 2009
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.