Apple’s leaked 45W MagSafe charger is first to support Qi2.2

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Apple’s adjacent procreation of iPhones mightiness enactment substantially faster wireless charging if caller regulatory leaks are to beryllium believed. A brace of MagSafe chargers with 45W powerfulness output and enactment for the upcoming Qi2.2 modular person been recovered connected a Taiwanese certification site, suggesting that Apple is readying the hardware, perchance timed for the iPhone 17 launch.

91Mobiles spotted listings for what it says are 2 Apple-made MagSafe chargers connected the website of Taiwan’s National Communications Commission. The chargers, exemplary numbers A3503 and A3502, look to enactment the aforesaid charging specifications but travel with braided cables of antithetic lengths, either 1m oregon 2m.

If the chargers are real, and bespeak Apple’s intended charging speeds for the iPhone 17 line, it would people a large leap — Apple’s iPhone 16 enactment presently maxes retired astatine 25W MagSafe charging, and lone 15W implicit Qi2.

Qi2.2 is simply a forthcoming update to the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi charging standard. Once officially certified, it’s expected to see enactment for up to 50W wireless charging, a large leap guardant from Qi2.1’s 15W max. Apple itself is simply a cardinal subordinate of the WPC, contributing a mentation of MagSafe’s magnetic tech to Qi2 and helping to plan the standard.