How to get correct battery level and battery status-ios?

Question

Always [myDevice batteryLevel] returning -1 and [myDevice batterystate]returning 0(entering into Default case).

How can i get the correct values?.Can anyone please help me to solve this?.Below is my code.(Always Printing batteryLeft as "-100%" and Battery Status as "Unknown").

Code:

UIDevice *myDevice = [UIDevice currentDevice];
[myDevice setBatteryMonitoringEnabled:YES];
float batLeft = [myDevice batteryLevel]*100;
int status=[myDevice batteryState];
NSLog(@"level:%0.0f",batLeft);
NSString *status_str;
switch (status)
{
    case UIDeviceBatteryStateUnplugged:
    {
        NSLog(@"UnpluggedKey");
        status_str=@"UnPlugged";
        break;
    }
    case UIDeviceBatteryStateCharging:
    {
        NSLog(@"ChargingKey");
        status_str=@"Charging";
        break;
    }
    case UIDeviceBatteryStateFull:
    {
        NSLog(@"FullKey");
        status_str=@"BatteryFul";
        break;
    }

default:
{
    NSLog(@"UnknownKey");
    status_str=@"Unknown";
    break;
}
}
NSLog(@"Battery status:%@",status_str);

Answer 1

Your code looks to be ok, it's the same that I used in one of my app:

-(void) battery
{
    UIDevice *myDevice = [UIDevice currentDevice];
    [myDevice setBatteryMonitoringEnabled:YES];

    int state = [myDevice batteryState];
    NSLog(@"battery status: %d",state); // 0 unknown, 1 unplegged, 2 charging, 3 full

    double batLeft = (float)[myDevice batteryLevel] * 100;
    NSLog(@"battery left: %ld", batLeft);
}

Your problem can be that you try this in the simulator, where it can't be work.

Try on one real device.