Microsoft Windows in 2025 is getting the ability to show battery percentage in taskbar

Microsoft is finally adding a built-in option to show battery percentage on the taskbar in windows 11 which all major Operating Systems already have.

Currently, the new battery percentage option is hidden in the latest Windows 11 Dev Channel build 26120.2992.
To get the option, you need a 3rd-party tool called ViveTool to flip the hidden feature ID: 48822452 and reboot. If that doesn't work, enable 48433719.

This will also enable some other changes to the battery icon that were present in earlier CUs such as labels for icons in the battery usage graph and the battery icon will now turn orange when energy saver is enabled, and green when charging.

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After seeing all the progress that's been made in Windows emulation on Android, I've been waiting for some OEM to ship a simple tool that gets the job done.

Kudos to Xiaomi for this. Hopefully this is something they can bring globally.

BTW: Android 16 Beta 1 might be coming tomorrow…

Google told me that the Pixel 9 will get beta access to Android’s improved LE Audio support for hearing aids tomorrow (Jan 23)…and in their press release, they said these improvements will be available through the Android 16 beta.

That means it's likely Beta 1 is coming tomorrow, though Google wouldn't explicitly confirm that. Still, that’s not too surprising since Google already said it’d come sometime in January.

Here's a look at Samsung's Project Moohan XR headset!

This will run Google's Android XR software!

Big news: Google has just announced that Android will soon make ALL apps resizable on large screen devices!

Currently, apps can lock themselves to portrait orientation or certain aspect ratios, which sucks for large screen devices like tablets, Chromebooks, and upcoming XR devices.

On large screen devices, Android 16 will ignore apps' requests to restrict resizing and orientation changes. This behavior applies to apps that target API 36 but doesn't apply to games. Apps can opt out in Android 16 but this opt-out will be removed in the next Android release.

Google is previewing these changes in Android 16 Beta 1.

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