How to check the battery life of all your family’s Apple devices.
Find My is a great tool not only for finding out the location of your loved ones, devices, and items, but also a great way to make sure everyone in your family has topped off their iPhone before they head out of the house.
Indispensable for family road trips or in any case where people are going to split up.
Your iPhone by default tells you the exact battery life of your AirPods and Apple Watch, but with Find My, you can see the battery life of all your family’s iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and Apple Watches. It is an approximation because you get a battery bar without a percentage, but it is pretty accurate if you’re a pro at estimating the battery bar health.
In order to check battery percentages, you would have to add them via Family Sharing.
Go to Settings > Tap on your name > Family > Add family member (logo on top right).
Once you add family members, make sure Location Sharing is turned ON. Now all family members can see everyone’s device location and battery percentage.
To see the battery percentages, go to Find My > Devices > and pick any device (that’s not AirPods) to see its battery life.
A few things to know when trying to visualize battery percentages:
The other devices have to be turned ON and have to be unlocked initially to gather the battery status. After that you can monitor battery life until the device dies or is turned OFF, which requires the process to be repeated.
It doesn’t tell you the battery life of other people’s AirPods probably because it does not have Wi-Fi or maybe because it doesn’t have an advanced processor like the other devices.
You also get charging status, so if a device is charging, you will know.
This will work on even your old Intel MacBooks (works with my 2013 MacBook Pro!).
I cross-referenced the battery indicator with the actual percentages on the devices. Very accurate.