Sounds more and more like the MagSafe charger is a poorly implemented gimmick
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PSA: Non-iPhone 12 Models Charge Super Slowly With MagSafe Charger
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Apple wants you to buy an iPhone 12, they’re masters of pulling stuff like this.
I’ve had a similar experience with my XS Max. Charged wirelessly for about the first year of ownership. Down to 93% battery health. Ever since using a wired charger every night (for about a year now), it hasn’t lost another 1% since.
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Let’s hope so. At this point their new mag-safe attempt appears to be ill-conceived.
Its an easy sell for me simply because some "other person's" phone is worth more to have battery than mine. Quite often I'm ending the day with 30+% battery so what's a piece of that compared household peace in general? 😉 if my phone stops it stops… it's not the end of the world. It still amazes me how often that a certain person in my vicinity forgets how charging in works.
Cords: Working just fine since 2007. Just plug the darn thing in.
Being able to reverse charge wireless headphones on the go would be a great feature if you find yourself on a long flight. It could prove useful in a pinch. It not an all the time feature as much as one of convenience those times you could use it.
It may speed up degradation but not definitely. It depends on use-case. My iPhone XS have been put on a 7.5W Xi charger every day since release and the battery is at 98% health. Because I always put it on one of my Xi chargers at home or at work when the battery is down to 40%. Keeping it from draining too low is much more important.
The iPhone 11 does NOT work with the charger. The iPhone 12 DOES work with the charger. I don’t see how keeping an iPhone 11 solves anything.
Why? It works as advertised for its advertised purpose (iPhone 12s)
In the video I posted earlier, MaxTech tests the wireless charging with a Mophie puck and it charges much faster than MagSafe with his 11 Pro Max , XS, SE and on a Note 20.
How does that account for the similarly slow speeds on the android device?
How would we even update the firmware on the charger? 🤔
The same issue was occurring on Android, which seems to imply it is either intentional or a firmware bug on the charger, not on iOS
With iPhone 12 and MagSafe charger, you CAN charge it while using the phone: power of magnets.
Reverse charging: to continue to use your AirPods to listen to stuff if they run out of juice and you're not near a power outlet.
I’m on this bandwagon but I’m also not an user of wireless charging.
Could argue that for me at least I’m connected to my phone via AirPods 90% of the time... I go to the phone to change the podcast, episode, music playlist, trigger a phone call (though ‘hey Siri’ works wonders for a lot of these too), so it being connected is not a big issue. Besides, if anybody happens to work on Mac, many of the activities on the phone just go through to the computer too.
My main quirk with this article is that they compare a super slow charging with a very slow other one and recommend the less slower one. It’s like comparing two cars, one’s maximum speed is 2mph and the other is 5mph... well, BOTH would be slow.
Yeah I got really concerned and I even had a USB fan blowing over it. but then I thought to myself “WHy? And then I switched back to wire.
Battery has been a steady 84% for over a year now.
Lol ... this cable is meant to break FAST on any model.
I had Apple lighting cables with similar built before, and many of them broke. My original MagSafe powerbrick had to be replaced several times just because of the cable break. And the way this looks and is handled, it will break within months, if not weeks.
I had Apple lighting cables with similar built before, and many of them broke. My original MagSafe powerbrick had to be replaced several times just because of the cable break. And the way this looks and is handled, it will break within months, if not weeks.
When i posted something similar i had a dozen people tell me i was crazy and that apple cables never break.
Of course you did. Cause back then Apple device didn't have it. But now they do of course you changed your mind. But don't worry , many on here felt the same as you.