Charge Dash
THE DETAILS ·
What does a stale reading mean?
A useful battery percentage tells you when it was measured. How Charge Dash marks stale readings, and why a refresh is a request, not a promise.
A battery percentage is a moment in time. If your Mac goes to sleep or your phone cannot sync, the last reading can still be useful—as long as you know it is the last reading.
Older readings stay visible
Charge Dash keeps known devices in the list when they disconnect or go to sleep. It preserves the original observation time when a reading moves between devices or appears in a widget.
When that reading gets older, the app dims it and adds a stale marker. Dashboard rows show when it was observed, so you can decide how much to rely on it.
What counts as older?
Mac and accessory readings become stale after 15 minutes. Phone and Watch readings become stale after 60 minutes. These are display thresholds, not promised refresh intervals.
Apple controls the opportunities apps get to collect data in the background, deliver updates and reload widgets. Sometimes those updates take longer.
Refresh is a request
Opening a dashboard shows the cached list and asks for available updates. The refresh control does the same. Neither action turns an old measurement into a new one.
If the operating system cannot supply a percentage at all, Charge Dash shows a dash. Unknown is more useful than a confident guess.