I must know precisely how anxious to be.
No number, but a long indicator bar that has good resolution to show it go down proportionally. Works well for the EV car. Works well for the phone. Works better for my monkey brain to appear like a fuel gauge without a number.
If it’s going to be a tiny icon like this then just put a number on it.
You don’t have to bother yourself with pesky numbers. It’s one step away from having to do math.
I had no idea you could turn the number off nor that anyone would want to
Number ON. Otherwise I have to guess the number.
I don’t mind the one without the number, what i do mind is that SOME FUCKING ASSHOLE decided that no number is bettter and forces his FUCKING DUMBASS decision on everyone else.
SO FUCK OFF WIHT YOUR NUMBERLESS SHIT AND TAKE ALL OF FUCKING MATERIAL DESIGN WITH YOU!
Sorry. i have strong feelings about this topic, don’t know if you noticed.
This is true and real righteous anger. I love it.
My personal rage at the moment is this square time format with the two digit hour over the two digit minute. Obviously designed for a smart watch but Android decided it needs to be on the phones as well. I keep turning it off but every few updates it comes back – because the designers know better than me what I actually want.
Try needing Julian day. If you’re coding then strftime() has supported it since 1989. All you need is “%j” and there it is, with leap year handling, etc.
The end goal isn’t a good/flexible/powerful user experience for the person who bought the device; it’s a larger user base that can be marketed to The Machine for more money out the back end.
Oh my god yes. Why the hell do I have to open the notification shade to see the number, especially when it gets low?
It shouldn’t be that hard to say, automatically show the number under a certain percentage. If it’s 10% I have around an hour left of medium usage. If it’s under 5% I have anywhere from 30 minutes to 5.
Just show me the number motherfucker, at least when it’s important!
Yeah it’s BS that you have to find detailed instructions online to turn of developer mode just so you could have the number
Well I only really need to know if I’m near dead or fully charged
Number. If I glance twice just a couple minutes apart, I know there’s an unusual drain going on and know to look for problem apps/processes I forgot to disable when done with them.
Also the number just feels like more direct communication to me than a graphic and is easier to make choices with. It’s not quite the same thing, but when I look at a clock I don’t want to see “5:30ish”, I want to know if its 5:28 or later so I can start my end of workday process.
So, number because spectrum.
We have the number, it’s very beneficial
I am big number guy. I like the number.
I have the number off because the number gets really distracting to me. If I need to know the number I’ll pull down the control center or whatever it’s called. It’s rare that the actual number is required though. You’ll know when it’s under half, and when it hits 20.
Looking at the bar right now for example I can tell that it’s gone past its 80% charging limit for whatever reason.
How is the number distracting though??
Personally it feels like having a countdown until time of death
Which i would find extremely helpful lmao – personally number off feels like being on death row with no clue when they’re dragging me to the chair.
The black mirror is when other people can see your number! On a(n even) darker note, I think that’s exactly what they do on death row tbf
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That’s Numberwang
Circle.
Had to scroll too far to see this.
Circle is much more accurate and easier to read. Having the percentage off avoids clutter, and with circle you can tell the percentage pretty closely anyways. Batteries are good enough these days that most people don’t need to plan their charging throughout the day.
How is a circle more accurate and easier to read than two digits which represent the exact value and take zero mental power to process?
* than the battery icon, obviously.
It depends on what kind of user you are. The ones that charge their phone whenever near a charger don’t need a number. The ones who only charge when the phone threatens to shut down absolutely need the number.
But what’s the cost of the number??
Nunber gang. That said it doesn’t change a lot for me. If I had a bar and it looked half full I’d be charging same as if the nunber read 55%
