iPad in battery widget

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iPad in battery widget

Issue

There is no way to connect an iPhone to iPad via bluetooth so how can we ever have an iPad’s battery level display on the iPhone battery widget?

Customer Perspective

Seems counter-intuitive having an Apple device that won’t talk to the iPhone. Apparently their is no Bluetooth protocol for this but it’s never stopped Apple from innovating.

Technical Details

This is an iPhone 14 Pro and iPad Air 5 both running IOS 18.1.1 as of this post.

Question

Is there any other close proximity messaging available they can use to query charge status so I can add them to the battery widget on the iPhone?

iPad Air (5th generation)

Posted on Nov 23, 2024 10:53 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 23, 2024 4:41 PM in response to jarvil

While the Battery Widget can show the battery charge of the host device - and select paired Apple devices, such as Apple Pencil, TouchPad and AirPods - the Widget cannot show the battery state of other iPads or iPhone.

However, you can see the relative battery state of other devices using the Find My App...

From the Find My App, simply select the Devices tab - and then the device of interest. For each of your devices that are (a) signed-in using the same AppleID and (b) have Find My enabled, you will see a small battery graphic that depicts the relative state of charge for that device.

So from your iPhone, while you can't see an absolute percentage value for battery charge, you can see the approximate battery state of your iPad - and vice versa.

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