Has anyone seen a very interesting status bar announcement?

By Lee, 26 September, 2025

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On 26.1 public beta. Put my phone on charge earlier. Just got a notification and at the end of it VO then said battery 77% charged 5M until 80%. Presumably the 5M meant 5 minutes. Never come across this before. However, I simply cannot get this to do it again by flicking or any other way. Does anyone know if sighted people get that info? Only ever done this once just now so very weird.

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Comments

By Lee on Friday, September 26, 2025 - 14:17

Well as the subject says now suddenly I'm getting the status of the charge after every notification. As it is now past 80% it isn't saying say 5m until 85% or anything. Not convinced this is a feature. Think something has gone wrong just for a change lol.

By TheBlindGuy07 on Friday, September 26, 2025 - 14:39

And a good one. For me I get something like 37%, slow charger, when I go to the lock screen. It's not an element on the screen we can navigate to, VO just announces it after the first element on lock screen which is generally the time.

By Angel Blessing on Friday, September 26, 2025 - 15:21

i am using an iphone 16 pro max official IOS 26 i get the message satalite available soon but not sure what is going on with that.

By Singer Girl on Friday, September 26, 2025 - 20:05

I haven’t seen any of these announcements on my status bar on either my iPhone SE third generation or my iPhone 15. I don’t know if this is something with newer phones perhaps since both of my phones are technically older devices. But I have not come across this at all. I’m on 26.0 though so maybe it’s something new for iOS 26.1? I don’t know as they don’t be a test. But that’s still a very interesting announcement just the same. Thanks for sharing this with us.