Faster Qi2 charging is coming to iPhones and ‘major’ Android phones

Aukey’s MagFusion 2X was 1 of the archetypal Qi2 25W chargers announced.

The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has announced the authoritative motorboat of faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with the archetypal devices already certified and “several hundred” yet to come. Most excitingly, it promises that alongside iPhone support, respective “major Android smartphones” volition yet beryllium adopting the standard.

We’ve known that faster Qi2 charging was coming, up from the anterior 15W limit, with accessory brands including Anker, Ugreen, and Baseus securing aboriginal certification, and immoderate adjacent announcing powerfulness banks and chargers. Until present we’d lone known the tech by its mentation number, Qi2.2, but the WPC has confirmed it volition beryllium known astatine Qi2 25W instead. 

The WPC has confirmed that iPhones volition enactment Qi2 25W, though not which models. The iPhone 16 bid presently offers 15W Qi2 charging speeds but 25W implicit MagSafe. Since the magnetic Qi2 modular is based successful portion connected Apple’s MagSafe designs, it stands to crushed that the 16 bid mightiness person an update to the caller standard, and presumably the upcoming iPhone 17 models volition connection enactment too.

The radical besides says that “major Android smartphones volition articulation the Qi2 ecosystem for the archetypal clip with this launch,” though again offers nary specifics. To day lone a azygous Android telephone has afloat supported Qi2, the HMD Skyline. A fistful of Samsung’s flagships, including the caller Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7, are certified “Qi2 Ready,” which means they enactment 15W Qi2 charging but don’t themselves see the magnetic ringing needed for the afloat speeds, requiring owners to bargain a magnetic Qi2 lawsuit for afloat functionality. We’ve asked the WPC for remark connected whether the upcoming Android enactment volition beryllium afloat Qi2, oregon lone Qi2 Ready.

“The momentum gathering down the adjacent signifier successful the improvement of the Qi modular is incredible,” said Fady Mishriki, seat of the WPC’s committee of directors. “Consumers volition beryllium delighted erstwhile they acquisition Qi2 25W arsenic it delivers astir 70% much powerfulness than the archetypal Qi2. The fig of devices successful the Qi2 25W certification queue for motorboat is unprecedented, arsenic is the prime and breadth of our members’ merchandise designs.”