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Why doesn't the battery percentage show in Windows 11 Insider builds?

Tan Hoang Tung 0 Reputation points
2025-12-22T14:24:02.22+00:00

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As I have remembered so far, starting with Windows 11 build 27802, all Insiders in the Canary Channel should have the feature of the new battery iconography and battery percentage available in Settings > System > Power & battery.

However, in my case, these were only present in some builds following this update as well as a few more recent builds; in all the other updates, the settings went missing, as with the current update (build 28020.1362, see screenshot above). Does anyone experience this inconvenience too?

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  1. Pauli O 15,465 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-12-23T13:39:12.2466667+00:00

    As told in end of Canary channel release announcement:

    Features and experiences included in these builds may never get released as we try out different concepts and get feedback. Features may change over time, be removed, or replaced and never get released beyond Windows Insiders. Some of these features and experiences could show up in future Windows releases when they’re ready.

    In this case it could be possible that this battery iconography / presentage feature was moved to Beta and Dev channel builds while it was removed from Canary channel builds some time after August 2025.

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  2. Pauli O 15,465 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-12-22T15:16:28.1633333+00:00

    That look exactly same as on both of my Canary builds.
    Are you referring this settinh in System / Power & Bettery which I have all installed Beta and Dev channel builds.User's image

    There is many reasons why that is missing / disabled:

    • Release of build from new development branch which doesn't have that feature
    • Some A/B testing on new feature
    • Some bug on feature See build 27928 blog

    The updated battery iconography we began rolling out in the Canary Channel with Build 27802 is disabled in this build. This is only temporary, and we will re-enable this in a future Canary Channel flight.

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