Sherry, Your own description has the answer in it, and the phone is working properly.
It sat at 80 percent for an hour while plugged in, then reached 100 by morning. That is the iPhone deliberately holding the charge at 80 and finishing the last stretch later. Apple calls it Optimized Battery Charging. It learns the hours you normally have the phone on the cable and waits, because a battery parked at full for eight hours ages faster than one that gets there just before you pick it up. While it is holding, the phone is connected but no current is going into the battery. So the status bar is correct to read you the percentage and leave out the word charging. Nothing got switched off. That word is not a VoiceOver announcement with a setting of its own, it is part of what the battery item reports, and it appears only while the battery is actually taking charge. The feature can be turned off, and it lives with the battery settings rather than anywhere in VoiceOver. I am not going to guess the exact wording for your version and send you hunting. Somebody here will give it to you word for word. One thing you can rule out. If this were the fixed 80 percent charge limit, it would never have passed 80 at all, and yours did. As for checking without watching the percentage, the chime when you plug in tells you the phone accepted the connection, and the battery screen in Settings states the current condition in words rather than leaving you to infer it. Were you plugging in at your usual time of night when it stalled at 80? VaShaun On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 06:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an IPhone SE & am on the current version of IOS 26. > > When I plug my phone in to charge, it no longer says charging. I > generally touch the top right corner of the apps screen & it will say 50 > Percent charged, charging or something like that. Now it just says > whatever percent it is at & does not say charging even if plugged in. > > Last night it charged to 80%. & an hour later it was still 80% even > though still plugged in. Since it charged last night I don’t think there’s > anything wrong with the cord. I tried different outlets with the same > result. I also tried plugging in other things in the outlet I usually use > & they worked fine. I have not changed any settings on the phone. > Although I generally stop at 80%, I left the phone plugged in. Even though > it did not say charging it was at 100% this morning. > Is there some other way to check that the phone is charging other than > waiting to see if the percentage changes? Is this announcement something > that could have been turned off somehow? > > Thanks, > Sherry Wells > “Let’s make stupid embarrassing again” > Rex Huppke > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach > Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/viphone/00d201dd57dc%24e669d4e0%24b33d7ea0%24%40gmail.com. > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/CAL5m5AGUWzDytO%2BfshKojZWYtXVGBBF%2Bs-uQgB1W-KtYRtAPOw%40mail.gmail.com.
