How do you get the charge status of a connected iPhone from the Mac?

Question

In iTunes, you can see the charge status of the iPhone currently connected:

This updates as the phone charges, and even shows when the phone is done charging.

Is there a way I can discover the charge status programmatically from the Mac? Any programming language or API is fine.

Answer 1

I would recommend setting up a bonjour service in an App on the iOS device to communicate with the computer. The app will then communicate the changes in the batter status using the batteryMonitoringEnabled property of UIDevice. Take a look at the samples code here.

BatteryStatus Sample Code

And here is the class reference

UIDevice Class Reference

And finally Bonjour programming

Bonjour programming guide