If you are running Windows 11 in Kenya, you might want to wake up your laptop and take a closer look at the taskbar today. After months of waiting, silence, ...

Microsoft is preparing changes to its laptop battery charge indicators, which should be coming to future versions of Windows ...

Apple has responded to feedback and tweaked the design of the battery percentage icon in iOS 16.1 beta 2. With the release of iOS 16, users were happy to see Apple had added the ability to see the ...

In the latest iOS 16 beta, Apple has updated the status bar battery icon on iPhones with Face ID to display the exact percentage remaining rather than just a visual representation of battery level, ...

Google is testing new icons for various status bar elements like WiFi, mobile data, airplane mode, and battery level. We previously spotted the new designs for the WiFi, mobile data, and airplane mode ...

Sometimes, it takes a moment to notice the subtler elements of a phone’s software design – but that’s not always for the best reasons. Take One UI 7, for example. Samsung’s latest mobile operating ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Microsoft recently announced important new features relating to Windows 11. As usual, these will be first introduced to Windows 11 Insiders, then eventually to everyone else. One important change is a ...

One of the new features introduced with iOS 16 was a new battery indicator with the percentage right on the status bar, which was a first for iPhone X and later. However, after multiple complaints, ...

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