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I’d love to use wireless charging for everything (and mainly do) but it’s so slow compared to wired.

the extra speed via wired is negligible considering:
- 27W charger only charges at 27W for a short amount of time before your iPhone throttles the speed down. compare that against 15W wireless charging means you're not getting to 80% much faster.
- putting wireless pads everywhere you set the phone down makes it easy to top off whenever you're not using your phone (home/car/office)
- wireless allows for magsafe batteries. so when you're at 20%, you can slap on the battery and you pretty much added 50% charge in 5 seconds.
 
Either you’re trolling or you have never used AirDrop.
I had to use AirDrop to get Timelapse photos off my phone and on my MacBook this weekend. It fu**ing sucked. It took like 5 hours and had to be done in batches of 300 at a time, which is awesome when you have 13,000+ pictures to AirDrop.

A portless phone is stupid. Particularly for a “pro user” which Apple keeps targeting with the Pro and Pro Max.

i'm literally on vacation and i use airdrop everyday to transfer 30+ minutes of video shot from filmic pro and 100+ raw images. i can initiate airdrop right outside my hotel door and it'll be finished once i settle down on my computer to start editing.

sorry, but airdrop is superior to transferring over wired 2.0 speeds.
 
i'm literally on vacation and i use airdrop everyday to transfer 30+ minutes of video shot from filmic pro and 100+ raw images. i can initiate airdrop right outside my hotel door and it'll be finished once i settle down on my computer to start editing.

sorry, but airdrop is superior to transferring over wired 2.0 speeds.
Yes, but most people are asking for USB 3.x or Thunderbolt over USB-C. though rumors are that Apple will gimp the USB-C speed down to PD/2.0 rates which seems like a D*K move.
 
Yes, but most people are asking for USB 3.x or Thunderbolt over USB-C. though rumors are that Apple will gimp the USB-C speed down to PD/2.0 rates which seems like a D*K move.

the discussion surrounds what is currently happening. but speaking of USB 3.x speeds, i was able to transfer 4GB over AirDrop in 33 seconds. And that's with me currently in a hotel which interference might be an issue (not sure if that affects peer to peer transfers) via Wifi 6 not Wifi 6E. I transferred the same file to my sandisk extreme pro SSD via usb and it took exactly 30 seconds. You're not gaining all that much speed via USB 3.2. In fact, you can save more 3 seconds by being able to initiate airdrop >3 seconds ahead of arriving at your table (and not need to look for a cable to plug into your MacBook)

Thunderbolt? Maybe but then you're talking about a much more expensive phone + cable.
 
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I need more information about "adding 50% charge in 5 seconds"

Five seconds?!?!? Do iPhones have supercapacitors now?

🤣


you failed to read properly. i didn't say 50% injected into the iPhone's *battery* in 5 seconds. i said effectively it added 50% to the iPhone because you can essentially use your phone just like before but for 50% longer with a MagSafe battery. takes 5 seconds to slap a battery on. 🤦‍♂️
 
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you failed to read properly. i didn't say 50% injected into the iPhone's *battery* in 5 seconds. i said effectively it added 50% to the iPhone because you can essentially use your phone just like before but for 50% longer with a MagSafe battery. takes 5 seconds to slap a battery on. 🤦‍♂️

Ah gotcha! I get it now.

Sorry... after reading 280+ posts... I kinda got lost.

Thank you!

:)
 
I don't understand why is so hard to find the minimum wattage or an actually low wattage USB-C Charger? Only results point here or are useless. Only thing I saw in one was that it was off of USB 3.1 with a min of 4.5W and needing PD for higher. That's the main issue of low wattage for iPhone. One of my power banks will not charge my wife's 13PM, and I think it isn't PD.
Well, quick charge its trendy right now and few people knows that it actually shortens batteries life. Making a charger that only 1% of people will buy isnt convenient
 
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