ResistanceTo/MiniWatts
An iPhone battery, charging and thermal instrument built on private iOS APIs — real charger watts, what actually reaches the cell, all 30 temperature sensors, and the USB-PD handshake.
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English · 简体中文 [](https://github.com/ResistanceTo/MiniWatts/actions/workflows/build.yml) An iPhone and iPad battery and charging monitor built on Apple's private APIs. It reads the device's own power-management sensors — the ones iOS uses to run the charge — and shows what the charger is delivering, how much of it reaches the cell, where the rest goes as heat, and what every temperature sensor in the device is doing while it happens. Download the latest MiniWatts-unsigned.ipa from Releases and sign it with your own Apple ID — Sideloadly, AltStore, SideStore and Xcode all do this. A free Apple ID works; the app then expires after seven days and you re-sign it. Requires iPhone or iPad, iOS 17 or later. Or add the source to SideStore or AltStore — including the SideStore bundled with LiveContainer — and install from there, so new versions show up as updates: LiveContainer cannot run app extensions, so installed inside it…
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What this repository does
An iPhone battery, charging and thermal instrument built on private iOS APIs — real charger watts, what actually reaches the cell, all 30 temperature sensors, and the USB-PD handshake.
Repository facts
- Owner
- ResistanceTo
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 166
- Forks
- 6
- Open issues + pull requests
- 2
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2026-09-10T13:53:31.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-15T15:14:40.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: battery, battery-monitor, charging, ios, ios-app, iphone, iphone-app, private-api, reverse-engineering, swift, swiftui, swiftui-app
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