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Charging Suggestion for 6s Plus Using Macbook Charger

salmankhan

salmankhan

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Well guys yesterday i got my hands ont he beautiful 6s plus in Rose gold 128gigs.
The thing is as we all know apple does not provide a fast charger with the plus. Due to the bigger size of the plus battery it takes hours to get it charged. So what i did was that i used the 29W Retina Macbook Charger (as i also own a rMB) using the USB Type C to USB Adaptor. And guess what my 6s Plus charged Blazingly fast.
so my question is it ok to keep on using this charger to charge my plus. ?
thanks
 
Should be. The phone will automatically draw what it will allow. I use my iPad charger and it charges faster, at about 1.2 amps give or take
 
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Thanks for your input bro. Yes will keep on using the Macbook Charger. It creates a day and night difference when it comes to juicing the plus
 
You and I are same here. I too have these usb inlets on my wall but when i travel its my plus and rMB with me. I bought the Tucano carry bag for my rMB so carrying the charger is not an issue for me
 
oooh i didn't try yet

omg

this is crazy

well, this post is going to go viral

well , i don't see how it charged it fast. i guess maybe il try running the battery down and trying again, maybe my test was invalid because the iPhone 6+s was at 95 %


as far as i can tell the maximum current the 6s+ can take is back down to iPod / iPhone 5 levels and that means 500 ma base current + 500 extra ma = 1000 ma max. maybe this is something that will be fixed in a new mac or maybe this is something that will be fixed in el capitan, i don't think so , i think this is permanent change to the 6s series


the iPhone 6 series phones used ipad charging current. and that means when you connected your ipad / iPhone 6, it was given 2100 ma. this was 500 ma usb current plus 1600 extra operating power for a total of 2100 ma. and this is what made the ipad charger charge the iPhone 6 faster

but now that the 6s+ has gone back to iPhone current, that means the ipad charger and your macbook charger shouldn't have any effect on it, because its not asking for the extra current
 
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this is going to involve side by side testing with two identical phones and different chargers., its out of my budget lol
 
I use the iPad charger for fast charging since the iPhone 6.

Fun fact: the iPhone 6s is almost faster than the 2015 MacBook.
 
rigormortis said:
oooh i didn't try yet

omg

this is crazy

well, this post is going to go viral

well , i don't see how it charged it fast. i guess maybe il try running the battery down and trying again, maybe my test was invalid because the iPhone 6+s was at 95 %


as far as i can tell the maximum current the 6s+ can take is back down to iPod / iPhone 5 levels and that means 500 ma base current + 500 extra ma = 1000 ma max. maybe this is something that will be fixed in a new mac or maybe this is something that will be fixed in el capitan, i don't think so , i think this is permanent change to the 6s series


the iPhone 6 series phones used ipad charging current. and that means when you connected your ipad / iPhone 6, it was given 2100 ma. this was 500 ma usb current plus 1600 extra operating power for a total of 2100 ma. and this is what made the ipad charger charge the iPhone 6 faster

but now that the 6s+ has gone back to iPhone current, that means the ipad charger and your macbook charger shouldn't have any effect on it, because its not asking for the extra current
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Thanks bro for your comprehensive response to my query.
well i have seen and tested myself the 6s plus charges damn rapidly when using retina macbook charger. let me run a personal test as well and note down the timings of the charging from 0 to 100%. lets c how the test turns out
 
salmankhan said:
Thanks bro for your comprehensive response to my query.
well i have seen and tested myself the 6s plus charges damn rapidly when using retina macbook charger. let me run a personal test as well and note down the timings of the charging from 0 to 100%. lets c how the test turns out
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Would be interesting to see the results.
 
i posted what i said earlier in the iPhone tips section

hopefully it will catch on and apple will respond


from my experience , if a mac cant charge an iPhone past 1000 ma then i don't see a ipad charger being able to do it

in order to get current you must first ask for it
 
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