Battery charge indicator

Factual Questions
1

I use W11 on my Surface Pro. Until this morning I had a small bar on the taskbar which showed how much charge was left in the battery.

I have searched through settings but cannot see how to get it back. Perhaps one of the “teeming millions” can help?

2

Try this …

  • right click on task bar
  • select taskbar settings
  • In Notification Area, click on “select which icons appear on the taskbar”
  • check that the “Power” icon is switched on.

Also … do you have a “^” in your taskbar symbol which shows hidden icons ?
if so, see if it’s in there.

3

Tried that - there is no “power” icon switch

There is a “^” in the taskbar but power is not there

4

…and you have rebooted …?

5

Always the first resort :grinning:

6

Well, i thought you probably had done !
so i’m out of ideas !

7

I’m still on Windows 10. Piggybacking on what @pjd said, when you right click on task bar, and select taskbar settings, in the Notification Area, do you have an option to ‘Turn system icons on or off’? That’s where I found the power icon for my Lenovo.

8

Do you have a third-party power manager like PowerChute? If so, that might mess with the taskbar display. In PowerChute at least, you have to show/hide the icon from the PowerChute settings.

9

I can’t find “Turn system icons off”

No third-party power managers are installed.

10

Here’s something else to try. Appears to be specific to W11.

How to Restore Battery Icon Missing From Taskbar - 2023.

11

Sadly, most instructions apply to W10 and don’t match W11 screens.

I have read several articles and it looks as if M’soft may have disabled it on the grounds that it was inaccurate.

Not vital I guess, but it was handy.

Thanks for the help anyway.

12

If it was actually inaccurate, then it wasn’t handy. It was the illusion of handy.

So now when you want to know your battery status, just guess. That may have been all the good the old one was after allowing for all the chicanery by battery and tablet manufacturers who were lying undetected to Win10 & therefore to you.

13

Windows 11 didn’t (purposely) remove the battery indicator; it removed the setting that allows you to show or hide it. Presumably without the setting it is supposed to be always displayed, but something weird is happening here.

They removed the part that showed battery time remaining because it was frequently inaccurate, but it is still supposed to show the percentage.

14

Which would be right handy.