How to check laptop battery health in Windows 10 or 11

Knowing how to check laptop battery health in Windows 11 is a handy trick as it will tell you whether your laptop’s flagging battery life is the rest of a hardware or software problem.

The lithium-ion batteries in most of our electronics wear down and become less effective over time, but in order to check just how much of your battery capacity is gone you need to dig a little deeper than the battery menu in the settings, but follow our instructions and you’ll have a full battery health checkup complete in less than a minute.

Laptop battery health check in Windows 10 or 11