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How to Check Battery Health in Windows 11

Find out everything about your battery usage and life estimates

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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If you are using Microsoft’s upcoming operating system on a laptop or tablet, you will surely want to know how to check the battery status and find out at what level are the apps or processes you are running draining your battery.

Luckily, the revamped battery information section in your Settings menu will display a detailed graph along with the information on battery consumption by apps and programs installed on your device.

Moreover, you can also perform a battery report or energy report via Command Prompt if you are looking to find out even more about it.

In this article, we’re going to show exactly how to do all of this, step by step.

How do I check the battery usage by apps on Windows 11?

A fairly simple process that will offer you detailed information on specific software energy consumption, that can be done with just a few clicks.

We recommend that you check this information, especially if you are on the go and rely on your device’s battery to finish your tasks.

Certain apps will take a higher energy tool than others and you might want to close them before your device’s battery is drained.

If you want toimprove your battery life on your Windows 11 device, we have a dedicated article that you can read.

How can I check the battery health on Windows 11?

Press theWindowskey on your keyboard or click on theStartbutton on the taskbar to open the Search menu.
Typecommand promptorcmdin the search box and right-click on the result, then selectRun as Administrator.
Input the following command and pressEnter:powercfg /batteryreport
You will receive a message stating that a report file for your battery life has been saved to a specific file path.
Navigate to the file path from the message and click on the battery-report html file.
Select in which browser you want to open the file from the list, then click onOK.
Read the file and navigate to the desired section to find out what you want to know about your battery’s health.

For more detailed information regarding your Windows 11 laptop’s battery’s capacity, usage, life estimates and more, you can generate a battery report. This can be done via Command Prompt through a simple command.

Command Prompt will generate a html file that can be opened on your browser, which contains all the necessary info regarding your battery: installed batteries, recent usage, battery usage, usage history, battery capacity history, and battery life estimates.

What is an energy report?

Many users confuse a battery report with an energy report. They are both commands that scan your Laptop’s battery, but they fulfill different purposes.

A battery report checks your battery health, whereas an energy report generates information about what drains a lot of battery on your device and prevent it from running properly.

How can I perform an energy report on Windows 11?

For some solutions onfixing battery drain in Windows 11, check out our dedicated article.

Why is it important to know how much certain apps drain my battery?

As we mentioned above, working while on the move, on a portable device such as a tablet, a laptop, or even a phone, depends on the autonomy of the device in question.

Conserving battery life can prove to be crucial in finishing your appointed tasks, more so if you don’t have an available socket in which to plug said device.

Therefore, knowing exactly what apps take a higher toll on your remaining battery is an important factor that you should definitely consider while traveling.

Not long ago we also mentioned thatWindows 11 is more power-hungry than the previous OS, so that’s another reason why you should keep an eye on battery usage.

And now that everyone is familiar with the fact that Windows 11 runs great on mobile phones, as well as on a number of foldable devices and Microsoft’s ownSurface models, more people are going to install it on such gadgets.

Be sure that you keep track of every important detail, in order to avoid unpleasant surprises.

What portable devices are you currently running Windows 11 on? Let us know in the comments section below.

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