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Definitely going to heavily reconsider Google products in the future if this is the way Google is going to approach basic software features.

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You really should reconsider how you treat your customers using your phones or your services in general. The only reason I am not using iPhone yet is that I hate their walled garden policy even more, but each and every case of your corporate incompetence really starts to make me think that walled garden might not be as bad as this. My Pixel 6a is great, but it has its issues (dual SIM calls dropping – luckily solved by RMA, inability to tap to wake from time to time, an Android bug known since 2018, I cannot remove obsolete devices from Google Play, reported for many years too, inability to use certain features like Family Link or Google Play rating as a Workspace user etc.).

I love receiving new Android a few hours after it's announced, but maybe it's just not worth it.

Pls do the right thing and bring this one feature back!

To respond to a commenter:

now you remove features that were a selling point in the first place?

Just to be clear, a feature like this shouldn't even be called a "selling point." This is a feature that is widely available on other Android and Apple devices, and there are many use cases.

Some examples:

• if you buy a refurbished smartphone, being able to see the battery health information is important since it tells you if your battery is too old or needs to be replaced (in which case you can ask for a warranty exchange). If I buy a refurbished phone, I expect the battery to be at least somewhat usable. If the battery only has 60% estimated capacity, I would get that returned ASAP.
• although not as significant of a reason, if you want to keep my phone for more than 1 year, being able to see your phone's battery health is important because you can decide when the phone's battery should be replaced.

There's no reason why this feature should be limited to the "Pixel 8a and beyond." If you create a full bug report (which can be done through Developer Options), or you use an app that can get ADB access (e.g., aBattery and Shizuku), or you use ADB directly, you can easily get these numbers (battery cycle, estimated capacity remaining, etc.). I'm able to do this on a Pixel 8 Pro (a device that's only 6 months old) and a Pixel 4A (which is stuck on Android 13 because Google no longer supports it). So, in other words, the numbers are clearly there, and they're clearly available.

I could talk more about how this behavior just shows that Google is becoming more anti-consumerism, but I digress.

I do hope that Google changes course and makes battery health information available to all devices with Android 14. Seeing that this bug report has been reassigned, reopened, and labeled as a bug does give me some hope. We'll see what happens in the next feature drop.

The feedback has been passed on to the product team for consideration.

Very poor decision. Google should consider changing marketing to "Your Pixel is getting massively worse with time - Pixel Drops". In either case I think investing any money in hardware made by Google should be reconsidered by users.

Wow, you closed this issue again? I had the battery info on my Pixel 6a, you removed it and stated that it will be available on Pixel 8a and beyond. I now have the Pixel 8A and there is still no battery info. Please re-open this issue and fix it.

Oh, sorry, I have the info on my Pixel 8a, was checking the wrong Settings page. :-) Still sad you removed from older Pixels which already had this, there is no reason why you should do so.