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Use the Find Devices app. It won't show a percentage but it will show the battery icon and give you an approximation.
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Which is your favorite? I'm using Battery Phone but like you said, it's don't always work.
The Watch Juice app reports battery percentage in multiples of 5% on the Apple Watch due to limitations in watchOS. Specifically, third-party apps like Watch Juice do not have access to the exact, real-time battery percentage of the Apple Watch due to Apple’s restrictions on data precision for battery information. Instead, they can only retrieve battery data in increments, often rounded to the nearest 5%.
This is likely done to reduce the power consumption associated with constantly querying exact battery levels and to align with Apple's privacy and security policies that limit the level of system data available to third-party developers. Apple’s own system apps, like the built-in Battery widget, have access to more precise battery data, but this isn’t extended to third-party apps through the current public APIs.