The battery icon in the taskbar is getting a completely new look in Windows 11. Previously, the small black symbol wasn’t very informative and didn’t tell enough about battery status at a glance.

or improperly plugged in your power adapter, or let your battery drain too much, before it’s far too late. Windows’ battery icon, which has traditionally been black, is being updated with ...

A red icon means that you better plug in soon. Yellow means that you’re running low on power, and that (in this build) your laptop is running in its low-power, battery-saver mode. (Microsoft ...

The plan for the battery icons sounded straightforward enough: green would indicate a full or mostly full battery, yellow would indicate that battery power had decreased to 20% or less ...