As a formerly, frequently disorganised dingbat, I know the fear of a rapidly dwindling battery all too well. While it's easy enough these days to glance at your phone screen and see clearly just how numbered your minutes of doom scrolling are, the same could not be so easily said of Windows 11 machines—until recently.
An update on the Windows Insider Blog last week announced that new, improved battery icons would be coming to the Release Preview Channel for Windows 11 Build 26100.3321, among a variety of other changes.
Alongside making the battery percentage visible in the system tray, colour-coded battery icons would make it even easier to judge how much juice is left in the metaphorical tank at a glance.
Sounds simple, right? Well, apparently not because Microsoft began rolling back this change on Tuesday to «to address some issues» (via The Register).
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, and then a red icon would serve as a fairly eye-grabbing indication that you ought to plug in your laptop.