Your Xiaomi mobile phone has changed forever. Well, at least your idea of him and one of his most important components. After years of waiting, the Android manufacturer copied Apple’s method. show battery status. Yes, we are talking about the percentage that iPhones show and which warns about the degradation of the cell itself. Well, the most popular Chinese company in the world already has it.
In fact, there have been rumors for months that Android 15 will feature something similar and that even HyperOS 2.0 will be available on all Xiaomi phones. Well, that wasn’t even necessary because some of the Asian company’s mobile phones are already showing this new data. The best example is the Xiaomi 14T Pro that we have in our office.
After seeing this post from Mishaal Rahmanwe wanted to see if this detail was true, and it is. Even in HyperOS 1.0 Xiaomi already shows the percentage related to battery health. This is a fact that has been present on the Apple iPhone for many years and that many Android users have been demanding.
This way you can see how your Xiaomi battery is performing.
Checking this new information is extremely simple: you just need to go into the settings of your Xiaomi, go to the “Battery” section and press “Battery protection‘. Then you will be able to see’Battery status‘next to the percentage. In our case this means 100%, which means that it is working at full capacity and has not lost power.
Xiaomi was initially expected to introduce this feature in HyperOS 2.0, but it looks like some models already have it in stock without the need to update. It is unclear which ones exactly, but it is clear that the company has taken a step and the appearance of this information on its devices is a matter of time.
In fact, another leak through X (Twitter) This also indicates that the Redmi Note 14, which was just unveiled, will show this information when updated to HyperOS 2.0.
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Apple users have known how this works for years, but it’s not common in the Google ecosystem at all. This new percentage applies to maximum battery capacityand decreases when degradation comes into play and the cell suffers.
It is completely normal that it gradually discharges, since all batteries, without exceptionthey degrade with use. If after a while you see a percentage of 90%, it means the battery is lost 10% of its original power due to degradation. This has already happened on your mobile phone, but now you can find out the exact number. Android used to hide this.
This is an interesting indicator, although an important one. don’t focus on it. Its goal is to learn how the battery behaves over time in order to associate less autonomy with possible degradation and consider replacing the component.
This is also useful when buy a used mobile phoneto ensure that your battery is in good condition and you are not purchasing a device with a greatly reduced capacity due to misuse by its former owner.
This is a piece of information that the Android community has been asking for for years, and now Xiaomi has opened the door for other manufacturers to follow suit. It is likely that within the next year other companies are also starting to show battery status Thus.
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I’m Ben Stock, a highly experienced and passionate journalist with a career in the news industry spanning more than 10 years. I specialize in writing content for websites, including researching and interviewing sources to produce engaging articles. My current role is as an author at Gadget Onus, where I mainly cover the mobile section.
