Android 14 reportedly might include battery health feature!

The upcoming Android 14 might bring the Battery Health monitor for phones and tablets.

Photo from Mishaal Rahman, EIC at XDA-Developer

Is Battery Health Monitor on Android 14 coming soon?

This feature has been around for iPhone for some time and yet is still missing for Android users (natively). OnePlus 11 users are exempted as they reported having this feature but the majority of Android versions do not have it.

There are some workarounds that you may download at the Play Store but the ability to access it on your phone natively is still different. 

However, that might change soon enough with the upcoming latest Android operating system. Based on XDA-Developer's EIC Mishaal Rahman, tipped that Google added some new BatteryManager APIs to the beta version of Android 14. Two of these are public APIs which give cycle count and charging status details, while the rest are system APIs that provide the device's creation date, date of first usage, charging policy, and current health.

Rajman continued that any app with the BATTERY_Stats permission can call these system APIs, however, they are available only on Pixel devices running Android 14 Beta 2 or higher.

Developer Narek created an app called "Batt" that utilizes these new APIs to report the smartphone's battery health and charge cycles. If you're interested, you may download it from GitLab and try it on your handset with Android 14 OS.

However, the app's data accuracy cannot be guaranteed because it reports what the APIs return and those metrics are dependent on the information the charging IC tracks. It is also dependent on whether the HAL supports this capability.

Let's all hope that Google adds a true battery health feature to the stable Android 14 so you don't have to depend on apps like Batt to track the health of your device's battery.

Source: Mishaal Rahman