MagSafe Battery Pack (Air) Alternative?

[Petey07]

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone else is looking into getting an external battery pack for the iPhone Air. Which one did you go with — Apple’s battery pack or another brand? I remembering having the Anker battery pack for the iPhone 12PM, and it cause the phone and battery to heat up, which then I returned it.

I placed an order for the Apple Battery Pack, but I’m holding off on opening it for now. I’d like to see if there are any more affordable alternatives that offer better capacity or versatility.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

1st party will always be the best with Apple. Heat management, compatibility, specs, etc…wouldn’t want to leave something like a battery to some janky company like Anker or Ugreen. If you can purchase a new iPhone Air but not the 1st battery why bother? Do it right the first time.

 

[4sallypat]

1st party will always be the best with Apple. Heat management, compatibility, specs, etc…wouldn’t want to leave something like a battery to some janky company like Anker or Ugreen. If you can purchase a new iPhone Air but not the 1st battery why bother? Do it right the first time.

Yup, agree - the Apple battery is the best engineered!

 

[ArchEtech]

I use the anker maggo slim10,000. Works great. They have a 5,000 ultra slim too.

 

[ArchEtech]

Yup, agree - the Apple battery is the best engineered!

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I bet that it doesn’t perform any better than other major brand of MagSafe charge banks. I’d even been willing to bet another Chinese company, that makes other charging banks makes it, not Apple. I’m sure it will perform just fine though. It was really dumb to only make it fit the Air. Lots of people would have bought it even for older phones.

 

[okkibs]

I bet that it doesn’t perform any better than other major brand of MagSafe charge banks.

I think it will though because it uses proprietary Magsafe charging and not Qi2 charging and we can see from the official Magsafe charger that it's very quick to charge iPhones at a dramatically lower heat output. The main issue will be the fact that it contains the same battery as the Air (shown in a brand new ifixit teardown on youtube) and the low efficiency of wireless charging causes Apple to only be able to promise a "up to" 65% charge. Up to means it might be somewhat lower outside of Apple standardized testing.

Even for a slim power bank that's very little. And not being compatible with the Airpods charge case makes it uninteresting for me anyways.

 

[4sallypat]

I think it will though because it uses proprietary Magsafe charging and not Qi2 charging and we can see from the official Magsafe charger that it's very quick to charge iPhones at a dramatically lower heat output. The main issue will be the fact that it contains the same battery as the Air (shown in a brand new ifixit teardown on youtube) and the low efficiency of wireless charging causes Apple to only be able to promise a "up to" 65% charge. Up to means it might be somewhat lower outside of Apple standardized testing.

Even for a slim power bank that's very little. And not being compatible with the Airpods charge case makes it uninteresting for me anyways.

I wonder if the Magsafe Air battery would work more efficiently if you were plug in a USB cable and charge the Air instead of wireless charging??

Will have to test it out - picking up mine today on my lunch hour.....