Apple’s new iPhone charger is a first of its kind

Apple’s 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max. | Image: Apple

Alongside its caller iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched a world’s archetypal past week wrong the precise dull sounding “Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.” It’s the archetypal charger to enactment the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol, giving you immoderate of the benefits of a much almighty 60W charger successful a compact 40W package.

AVS — which stands for Adjustable Voltage Supply — provides granular voltage options allowing the powerfulness root to connection much precise and businesslike charging of devices similar smartphones and laptops. You tin see it listed connected the charger specs from Apple Insider’s hands-on.

For reasons of safety, efficiency, and longevity, the batteries successful our phones and laptops bash not complaint astatine their maximum imaginable input for the entirety of the charging cycle. Instead it’s regulated astatine predefined voltages to dilatory down charging arsenic the artillery fills. With AVS, the powerfulness root tin supply a precise circumstantial voltage that is person to the perfect needed for the instrumentality being charged, speeding up charging without overheating.

However, dissimilar a existent 60W charger, Apple’s small 40W GaN charger tin not support that highest 60W complaint everlastingly — lone 18 minutes as demonstrated by Privaterbok over astatine the r/UsbCHardware subreddit. That makes it suitable for accelerated charging a caller iPhone 17 but not a MacBook Pro, which is wherefore Apple sells it arsenic a 40W charger “with 60W Max” and not a 60W charger.

It besides means that you’ll apt request Apple’s $39 Dynamic Power Adapter if you privation to lucifer Apple’s accelerated charging assertion for the iPhone 17 models (“up to 50 percent successful 20 minutes”) oregon hold for Anker and others to supply a compatible USB PD 3.2 AVS charger of their own.