Exactly. I see this like a jump start kind of situation. Not something you’d plan to do but helpful in a pinch.
Edit: I do expect this to get more sophisticated as time goes on, and is another reason to go for the pro max.
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PSA: An iPhone 15 Can Charge Another iPhone
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Exactly. I see this like a jump start kind of situation. Not something you’d plan to do but helpful in a pinch.
Edit: I do expect this to get more sophisticated as time goes on, and is another reason to go for the pro max.
I don't have the phone that I could wirelessly charge other phones on anymore, but I know for sure I could take calls on speakerphone using the phone that was charging. Not sure how or why you'd use both (in this scenario) but you could still use one for sure.
There really is no point to this. My bank account is so happy with me this year.
Apple being years late, as usual.
USB charging would have been useful if the iPhone had a decent size battery.
You've no idea how many times that feature got me out of trouble when I used to work in an office. Amazing to me to think that that was back in 2019, doesn't feel like it was that long ago.
I really wish these so called tech YouTubers and influencers stopped getting the products first. The only opinion that matters is the consumers.
1. Phone charges at night and in the car. Never had a need for that kind charging speed and don't see that changing.
2. No need for that. Don't use my devices in any way where 10x the transfer speed is useful.
3. One cable for any device will never be useful for me because I don't just sit and charge devices one at a time. I need multiple cables, no matter what type they are, because I charge everything at the same time.
All three of your "benefits" are gimmicks in my eyes.
And by the way...to address your "alright, Veruca Salt" comment. Of course I'm talking about me! I don't speak for everyone else! Did you catch the part where I said "in my use cases"? I guess that didn't make it clear enough. So you can drop the name calling. The way I PERSONALLY (clear enough for you?) see it...USB-C's "benefits" to iPhone are all pointless gimmicks that offer nothing beneficial. Just another expense (which in terms of money is insignificant) but still something that wouldn't have been necessary, but the EU clearly needs to go on a power trip once in a while to make it look like they're doing something.
typical apple, taking years to match the competition
its helpful when you have no means to charge anything due to location. one who cant see the benefit is shortsighted and likely doesn't get out muchYeah I don't see any kind of benefit here. Sure, you can charge up another device...and in the process drain the battery in the other. Big "win" there
Insult aside...how often does a situation like that actually happen for the average user? I'd guess so infrequently that it's a non-issue. After countless times camping in the woods without a power source, being in tornadoes, and hurricanes...this would have been helpful exactly zero times.
I'm sorry but Apple might be late to a feature, but they do it better, there is a quality to how Apple implement a feature that Android just can't match. with the Samsung you just drop your phone on top of another, that's very inappropriate. With the Apple method you insert the USB C and plug it into another phone, it's very elegant.
Yes. Also lower iPads with USB C have the same ability.
No. The MagSafe requires more power to charge than the iPhone offers. It won’t start charging at all. It needs 12 watts at minimum and the iPhone offers 4.5.
That's cool, but I'm not giving up battery so someone else can charge.. lol.
For me, I could see a situation of a person plus boy/girl friend (or family or friend, whomever), their phone is dead but yours isn’t, you’re both about to board a plane and can’t get power otherwise. They need to make a call with their phone only. Welp, get the type C cable out.
But for the most part, portable batteries are the way to go. But maybe your only battery is dead too, or you lost it.
If you are on a plane that doesn't have smartphone charging capabilities in 2023, you have bigger problems than making a phone call. 😊
I am not sticking my phone is someone else's phone unless the other phone test clean. I don't want to get phone herpes.
I want to know if you can wireless charge it from the wall and then daisy chain a bunch with magsafe chargers. Then they would all eventually be fully charged
Probably a good number of flights have power ports. You can't rely on it, though. Well you can typically look up whether a given flight will have charging ports.
Thank goodness there's no more airline-specific power ports, at least when I have flown recently. Just a straight AC port or a USB port.
It's just a thought experiment for now, maybe you're waiting in line to board and thus no power port yet, but the phone call needs to happen now.
Doubt it. Apparently the output is only 4-5W, basically the same as the OG iPhone USB-A charging block.
Edit: totally misread your comment
. I thought you meant charging another via MagSafe.