MacOS 27.0 (Golden Gate) - Battery Percentage Misaligned inside Battery Icon

I do not see this on my M4 Pro MBP running macOS 27 Golden Gate. With the Mac in use (i.e., unlocked), the percentage is centered. Doesn't change with dark vs light background or when the Mac is running on battery or charging.

The number in the battery icon on the lock screen is centered, as well. Note that the display on the Lock Screen is different, in that the battery icon shows regardless of the menu bar setting (which I normally have off for the battery item because I use a custom version with iStat Menus, instead).

It might have to do with other menu bar items, or a 3rd party extension that affects them.

Have you rebooted your Mac? If not, that's the first step. If that does not help, then see if the problem is present when you boot in safe mode. That process performs some system cleanup and clears caches, and also disables 3rd party extensions that may cause problems.

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If that does not correct the issue, test in a new user account. A newly-created user account will have all settings at default, and if the issue does not occur in that new account then it provides guidance on what may need to be changed to correct the issue.

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Once the testing is complete, the new account can easily be deleted.

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Those steps will help to isolate the problem.

Regarding it being a design choice by Apple, if so I'm not sure why we would see it differently. Regardless, to have Apple consider your feedback, submit it here:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Welcome!

Yours appears correct to me What looks off-center is the light gray area. It is graphically expressing the charge level. The digital value of the charge level, 71, is centered inside the icon, not the gray area.

Either charge to full or discharge to about 20% and you will see the centering reference for the digital value remains the icon width, not the gray area.

TheMasoodAhmad wrote:

MacOS 27.0 (Golden Gate) has an alignment issue, the percentage is not vertically aligned. Can you help us out?

I have tested it on MacBook Pro M3 Pro 14 inch and M4 Air 13 inch, both has similar issue.

That appears to be a design choice by Apple. The percentage number is meant to look like it is sitting on the bottom of the battery icon. Not centered. I think that is how it is supposed to be.

You can send Apple feedback explaining how you want it to look.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

I would expect that the current design is as intended by Apple. I do not believe Apple intended that number to be vertically centered, but rather to be anchored closer to the bottom of the battery icon in which it sits.

This appears to be a localization bug since it does not seem to be misaligned on any of the Macs I use in the US.

Localization bugs are not uncommon. Contact Apple to let them know about it. Use the Feedback link suggested by steve626. Apple will fix it... eventually.

Thanks, Allan Jones.

I’m talking about the vertical alignment. As you can see, the text is positioned toward the bottom, so the spacing from the top and bottom is not consistent. It was fine before the update to version 27 Golden Gate.

When the screen is locked, the text is perfectly aligned. However, after unlocking, the text moves downward.

Allan Jones wrote:

Welcome!

Yours appears correct to me What looks off-center is the light gray area. It is graphically expressing the charge level. The digital value of the charge level, 71, is centered inside the icon, not the gray area.

Either charge to full or discharge to about 20% and you will see the centering reference for the digital value remains the icon width, not the gray area.

The OP seems to be concerned with the VERTICAL position of the number for the percentage. It is slightly closer to the bottom than the top. By maybe a fraction of a mm.

@steve626

You can see the difference between the unlocked and locked respectively.

Locked 👇

Unlocked 👇