I guess it’s impossible to wireless charge and backup/sync to iTunes at the same time with the 8 or X?
I assume you’d need to plug a lighting cable into the phone?
I assume you’d need to plug a lighting cable into the phone?
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Wireless charging & backing up
- Thread starter Pagemakers
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Depends on the speed of the wifi on your Mac/PC. If it's sporting 802.11AC then it should be quite fast.
Edit: Provided your iPhone is also using the 5GHz 802.11AC at the same time that is!!
I guess there is no harm in re-trying. That said, if wifi sync is enabled and i put my phone on the wireless charger will the sync start every time? That may not be a great idea
I guess I’m confused then? The phone would be plugged in to back it up to iTunes, so it would be charging by wire, why would you need to be wirelessly charging too?
@Applefan4515 We're talking about doing everything wirelessly...
@Pagemakers You could opt to only do it manually, so it's not syncing with your Mac every time it's within wifi range. So you'd have Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi selected and have Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected unselected.
Then you just go into iTunes, select the device and backup when you want to.
Edit: Just did a test (my Mini's still on 802.11n) - but it was connecting to the WAP at 450Mb/s - my iPhone 6s was connected via 802.11AC at 585Mb/s and a 2GB backup took about 23 minutes (seemed to stall for about 5 or 6 minutes in there where the progress bar didn't move) - so it's still far from perfect, but it works.
@Pagemakers You could opt to only do it manually, so it's not syncing with your Mac every time it's within wifi range. So you'd have Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi selected and have Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected unselected.
Then you just go into iTunes, select the device and backup when you want to.
Edit: Just did a test (my Mini's still on 802.11n) - but it was connecting to the WAP at 450Mb/s - my iPhone 6s was connected via 802.11AC at 585Mb/s and a 2GB backup took about 23 minutes (seemed to stall for about 5 or 6 minutes in there where the progress bar didn't move) - so it's still far from perfect, but it works.
Last edited:
So it looks like if I have a wireless charger next to my Mac I’ll also need a lightning cables for backups. Kinda makes the wireless charger pointless. Hmmmm
Remember your in the minority, I think most use Wireless charging and iCloud backup.
There are wireless charging devices available that that have a built in hard drive for backup(still has a short cable for backup).
When you put your phone to wireless charge (with auto WiFi sync enabled) what happens if you remove the phone from the charger. Does the sync continue?
What happens if you remove your phone from the wireless charger during the backup? Does it continue to sync?
I haven't been paying attention to that feature since I'd planned to order the X -- has the Qi charging been enabled in iOS 11 yet?
I have no idea. My 8+ charges great on my Belkin pad. When charging while sleeping, speed makes no difference to me.
Yep, pretty sure it would continue to backup. Apple didn't built the logic into iTunes to only sync when the device is externally powered. (at least, I know I can do it with my Mac and my 6s)
Did that to test the speed of it - I still do nightly iCloud backups.Who knows. Any “automatic” service Apple provides is usually ****. Think iPhoto syncing, AirDrop detection, Bluetooth pairing
I would bet it would keep going but the worst would be it would stop backing up and then start again when back on the charger.
If I were to have a phone that supported wireless charging (I only have an SE), I'd probably keep plugging it into my mac, not only for charging but also syncing.
I don't sync via iCloud and I see no need for wifi syncing, when its so much faster if I just plug it into my iMac - that's just me, YMMV
I don't sync via iCloud and I see no need for wifi syncing, when its so much faster if I just plug it into my iMac - that's just me, YMMV