Bluetooth settings on Android will soon show your device’s battery level us

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• Google is preparing to polish the Bluetooth device details page to show a small ring indicating the current battery level of your connected device.
• This change isn’t live yet in the latest Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 release, but we managed to manually activate it.
• Android has supported reading the battery level of connected Bluetooth devices since Android 8 Oreo was released in 2017.

A lot of Bluetooth devices, such as wireless earbuds, have no way of visually indicating their current battery level. Fortunately, the Bluetooth specification has a standardized way for Bluetooth devices to share their current battery level with whatever they’re connected to. Android has supported showing the battery level of connected Bluetooth devices for years now, but in the next quarterly release, Google is looking to add a bit of polish to how the battery level is shown.

While digging through the first beta update for the upcoming second quarterly release of Android 15, in other words, Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1, we discovered that Google is working on tweaking the Bluetooth device details page in Settings > Connected devices. The company is preparing to update the page to show a small ring that indicates the current battery level of your connected device. This ring doesn’t add any new functionality, as it’s based on the same battery level information Android has been showing since Android 8 Oreo, including on the very page where the ring is shown.




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