Android 14 could bring battery health feature to phones and tablets

iOS has a Battery Health feature that’s missing as a native feature on Android to show the device battery’s maximum remaining capacity. However, Android 14 could bring that to all Android devices when its final version is released.

Former XDA-Developers‘ EIC Mishaal Rahman has revealed that Google added some new BatteryManager APIs to Android 14 beta. Two of them are public APIs – used to provide information about cycle count and charging status – while the rest are system APIs that report the device’s manufacturing date, date of first use, charging policy, and state of health.

Rahman…