Apple is on the cusp of introducing a tiny change with an outsized influence on the high quality of lifetime of iPhone customers in every single place who’re bored with helplessly watching on as the life trickles out of their system in unquantifiable increments.

However there’s excellent news: In the latest iOS 16 beta, the battery icon once more shows the precise numerical percentage of juice left in an iPhone or iPad’s battery, giving shoppers a extra exact measure of how quickly they’ll be left clutching a dull hunk of treasured metals.

The battery indicator returns in iOS 16 beta 5, nevertheless it nonetheless must be enabled for anybody operating the beta by way of the settings menu. The choice can to toggle on battery percentage is discovered in the “battery” nook of the settings menu, above the low energy mode toggle.

The replace is restricted to the beta for now, but when historical past is any information it ought to be making its method right into a full iOS launch. The battery percentage indicator made its debut method back in the iPhone 3GS period earlier than disappearing with the creation of the notch on the iPhone X circa iOS 11 back in 2017.

As one among our resident Android apologists it’s my sworn responsibility to level out that the battery indicator on Android by no means went wherever and certainly remained useful by way of that working system’s many latest permutations, however you knew that already. As all of us additionally know, the Cupertino firm is a fickle divine entity and does because it pleases with the gadgets it points from on excessive.

As our resident Appleman noticed:

Apple doesn’t at all times maintain each beta function in a remaining launch — notably if early suggestions pushes back on one thing — however odds are excessive that the battery percentage icon is coming back in late September with the correct launch of iOS 16.