 you have just updated your MacBook Pro to Big Sur. Congratulations I did too and look what happened to it's a lovely layout but look what's happened in the top right hand corner the battery what has happened to the battery icon how do you get the battery percentage to show in the bar at the top of the screen of your MacBook Pro on Big Sur it's really simple and you and me are going to get those numbers back onto that battery icon so we can see the percentage exactly and it's not where we think it is because if you click on the battery and click on battery preferences I'm sure you've done this already there's no option here to show the percentage this isn't the place to look all we need to do is go up to the Apple icon in the top left hand corner and go down to system preferences and in system preferences don't go to battery down here you want to go up here to dock a menu bar in this window we've got all these options down the left hand side if you scroll down the one that we need is battery so we'll click on battery there it is show in menu bar if I turn that on and off that shows the battery icon or turns off the battery icon so guess which box we have to tick to show the percentage of the battery icon yep it's that one show percentage make sure you also check show in menu bar and there it is the numbers are back that I could turn them on and off to my heart's content all the way down to zero percent again don't go if this has helped you can help others find this solution by clicking the thumbs up button and if you're feeling even kinder why not hit the subscribe button that would help me get closer to 10,000 subscribers and right here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next good luck with your MacBook Pro Big Sur OS updates