How do I show battery percentage in GNOME Panel without using any extension?

Solution 1:

Open dconf Editor and navigate to /org/gnome/desktop/interface/show-battery-percentage. Then disable "Use default value" and select True in the "Custom value" field.

Alternatively just open Terminal and run

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true

Same settings can be found in (GNOME) Tweaks under Top Bar:

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