Apple removes the battery-remaining estimate from macOS 10.12.2

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MacOS 10.12.2, out today, contains a fix for the graphical issues experienced by some owners of new (late 2016) MacBook Pros. That’s a good thing. But Apple also investigated reports of poor battery life, and found no evidence the batteries themselves were behaving unexpectedly.

That doesn’t mean this issue isn’t getting a fix of sorts, however. In the new macOS, users will now get what Apple thinks is a clearer picture of how much battery is remaining—as a percentage, but no longer as an estimated time remaining. You can still have the percentage remaining appear in the menu bar, but if you click that or the battery icon itself, you’ll notice the “5:02 remaining” estimation is gone.

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