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iPhone 15 Pro Models Reportedly Max Out at 27W Charging Speeds Despite 35W Rumor
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It might be that the higher speed forces faster battery degradation.
Personally, since I trade in every year, I dont mind this.
However, if I were apple and given all the battery gate scandals and lawsuits- I dont blame them,
That's not actually the point, the point is the W rating is useless and functional outcomes matter more, and that's what I am getting at. At 15W (not fast charging), the iPhone is still thermally throttling charge rates to protect battery life.
The point is I'd rather Apple actually get the actual feature/function right than specs, I don't want the damn thing throttling at 15W, but it does, because the thermals are a disaster in the 14.
Can you explain to be how you did this? I used a 30 W charger on my iPhone
15 pro and I have 87%.
All phones since the iPhone X/8 have peak charged to 29W. Apple only advertised up to 20W.
I don't even know what wattage charger I have. It's just the little cube that I have had for years.
I just charge at night and it's full in the morning.
I just charge at night and it's full in the morning.
I am buying one. I can be both disappointed and a customer at the same time.
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Even if your charger was a 300W charger it wouldn't change the fact that your iPhone would not draw more than 27W.
With a 45w Anker charger my 13 pro charges really fast! Numbers are not everything on these 27w 15s.
The iPhone has less than 30% worldwide market share so majority of people do decide to get an Android phone. My girlfriend's Xiaomi 12s Pro came with a 120W charger while my iPhone Pro Max 12 cannot even do 1/4 of that. The Xiaomi is objectively better in this regard and she did care about this aspect. I have to use a Redmi phone as a secondary phone since Apple blocks me from installing some apps I need but not available in my local app store (developer's decision, but the fact I was able to fix the issue on my Android phone while Apple blocked me).
Other phone manufacturers offer cheap phones for those who want to go on their $.35/minute plan and only want to pay $150 for their phone outright. Apple does not offer anything like that. It should be expected that a single manufacturer that doesn't sell cheap phones outright has less than 30% of the market share.
Strange that we're now measuring charging "speeds" in Watts. Think about that for a moment.
I have a day 1 14 Pro and use MagSafe almost every time and my battery health is at 88% lol. If anything I think MagSafe is bad for batteries, perhaps because of the additional energy lost to heat?
I have no freaking idea how you have 100% left. Do you not use your phone much? I’m switching to 15 Pro Max so maybe the additional capacity makes it less likely to dip low enough to put strain on the battery?
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Higher wattage = more heat.
By throttling, are you referring to the "Optimized Battery Charging" feature? If so, you can turn it off to charge to 100% every time.
Mine does 120watt. 0-100 in 25 mins and it's not even warm when charging. It's hard to go back to slower charging now.
What kind of reversed logic is that? You cannot ask for improvements for a product you like, because what?
Even if I were to follow your flawed logic, Android has more than a 70% market share, so even by that standard, you failed to prove anything.
Honestly 20W is already enough for me, especially since I usually charge my 13 wirelessly at 7watts (which helped keeping my battery to the max capacity for 2 years).
*with a 20w-capable cable.
Also 150w is the total, shared wattage of the 4 different ports your charger have.
It would deliver 22,5w max if plugged in the usb-a port.
100w max if plugged in the usb-c port and no other device plugged at the same time.
And your phone would just draw 27w anyway so…
I have a simple question and how do you have a iPhone 15 Pro? These phones are not released to consumers yet. I am reading between the lines that you have a iPhone 14 Pro. I also have a introductory iPhone 14 Pro and my battery is still at 100% and that is the first iPhone I have had that is still at 100%. I don’t know about my early iPhones has the 3 GS through the 7 I never paid any attention to the battery as long as I could go all day I ignored it.