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Battery Widget - All Devices?

Angrinkin

Angrinkin

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Feb 5, 2008
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Good morning everyone - just curious if anyone with multiple Apple devices has been able to view more than just two devices in the battery widget. For some reason, my iPad’s battery isn’t showing up on my iPhone and vice versa, though my Apple Watch battery only shows on my iPhone’s battery widget.

Perhaps this is by design and I’m only able to see the battery level for this device and anything attached to it (Apple Watch) but it would be great to use the widget to monitor all of my Apple devices where I’m signed in with my iCloud account.

Thanks!
 
frederikolafsen said:
Good morning everyone - just curious if anyone with multiple Apple devices has been able to view more than just two devices in the battery widget. For some reason, my iPad’s battery isn’t showing up on my iPhone and vice versa, though my Apple Watch battery only shows on my iPhone’s battery widget.

Perhaps this is by design and I’m only able to see the battery level for this device and anything attached to it (Apple Watch) but it would be great to use the widget to monitor all of my Apple devices where I’m signed in with my iCloud account.

Thanks!
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I see my phone, my Watch and when in use or if the charger door is open, my AirPods Pro.
 
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gwhizkids said:
I see my phone, my Watch and when in use or if the charger door is open, my AirPods Pro.
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Got it. So it must just be the local device and any device connected directly to it. Too bad that Apple can’t pull battery info from your other devices and populate it in the widget. Ah well. Thanks all!
 
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They should be able to add this easily. I use the app Batteries on my MacBook Pro and I can see the battery percentages of my iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPad Pro in the menu bar.

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No need to connect the headphones to the iPhone. They only need to be on. I can see at the same time my iPhone, my watch, my daughter’s AirPods Pro and my son’s beats Solo 3.
 
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What Apple needs to allow for, (whether direct or third party app) is notifying the user (even if using an iPad at the moment) when the Apple Watch or iPhone is fully charged. As long as all devices are on the same Apple ID account, it might be a workable feature.

When I am using my iPad and charging my watch and or phone, it would be nice to get an on screen banner notification telling me my watch or iPhone is fully charged.
 
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itsmilo said:
I hate that the small one doesn’t show the percentage when more than one device are connected. Totally useless and the biggest version is just redic with so much wasted space
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I wasn't happy about that either. Looked everywhere
Then I asked Siri how to and she told me my pencil battery %...
go figure 😊 ..but you need to ask her each time

P.s I just found that adding a different size of the battery widget I have all the data I was looking for, % included
 
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You can show among 3 different ways; a square box (default), a row or a list.

If you have already the batterie widget, remove it and then add it again and on setup you can scroll among these 3 options.

I agree, showing all connected devices is a must to make it useful.
 
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