MacOS – Show Battery percentage on Mac OS Big Sur batterymacosmenu bar After I upgraded my mac to big sur the battery on the menu bar only show bar/not percentage like before. How to show percentage again? I go to battery preference but no that option. Best Answer The software changed what shows in the menu bar. Open the dock and menu preferences and enable percentage. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-dock-menu-bar-preferences-mchlp1119/mac Related SolutionsDisplay only battery percentage in menu bar I recommend and use SlimBatteryMonitor (donation-ware). It's much more flexible than what Apple provides. Way to get the OSX battery icon to display both percentage and time iStat Menu offers to display both percentage and Time. http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ When running SL, you could get the old free version. However, it does not contain the battery menulet: http://mac.brothersoft.com/istat-menus-2.0.html Related QuestionMacOS – I am missing the option to see the remaining battery life as time in the menubar“Battery is not charging” after updating to MacOS Big SurHow to remove the time from the menu bar in Big Sur
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The software changed what shows in the menu bar. Open the dock and menu preferences and enable percentage.