iPhone 17 Pro Named Fastest-Charging Smartphone

Apple's iPhone 17 Pro has been named the fastest-charging telephone wide successful a caller CNET laboratory trial covering 33 smartphones, with Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra taking the apical spot for wired charging speed.


To find the rankings, CNET's laboratory squad ran each telephone done a 30-minute wired charging trial starting astatine 10% artillery oregon less, utilizing the phone's included cablegram and a partition charger rated astatine oregon supra the device's maximum supported speed. Phones that enactment wireless charging went done a matching 30-minute wireless trial utilizing a Qi (7.5W), Qi2 (15W), oregon Qi2.2 (25W) charger matched to the phone's highest supported speed. CNET past averaged the wired and wireless results into an wide charging score.

The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌'s triumph successful the wide class is partially a relation of its comparatively compact 4,252mAh battery, which is smaller than the 5,000mAh oregon larger capacities communal among competing flagships. With little capableness to fill, the 17 Pro charges faster successful implicit terms, and it supports some 40-watt wired charging and 25-watt Qi2.2 wireless charging. CNET notes that artillery size is conscionable 1 origin successful wide artillery life, alongside processor and bundle efficiency, and successful its artillery beingness testing, the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max came retired connected apical for endurance.

For wired charging, Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra took the apical spot, adding 76% complaint successful 30 minutes via its 60-watt wired charging speed, the fastest of immoderate Samsung flagship to date. The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ came successful 2nd astatine 74%, tied with Motorola's Moto G Stylus (2025). The OnePlus 15 followed with 72%, portion the iPhone 17, ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max, and Samsung Galaxy S25 FE each reached 69%.

Apple's ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ besides claimed the fastest wireless charging result, gaining 55% successful 30 minutes. The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max added 53%, followed by the ‌iPhone 17‌ astatine 49%, the iPhone Air astatine 47%, and the Galaxy S26 Ultra astatine 39%. CNET again attributes the 17 Pro's borderline implicit the 17 Pro Max mostly to its smaller battery, since some devices stock the aforesaid A19 Pro spot and software.

Across each brands tested, Apple had the astir accordant fast-charging show by a sizeable margin, averaging 54.6% crossed the 4 ‌iPhone 17‌ models and the ‌iPhone Air‌. Samsung's nine-phone mean came successful astatine 38.5%, with the Galaxy S26 Ultra arsenic its strongest performer and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 arsenic its weakest astatine 29%.

Silicon-carbon batteries, which usage a silicon-based anode alternatively than graphite to alteration higher capacities and faster complaint rates, appeared among respective of the apical performers. The OnePlus 15, for example, recharged 72% of its 7,300mAh silicon-carbon artillery successful 30 minutes utilizing a proprietary 80-watt charger. Silicon-carbon phones successful the U.S. stay constricted to OnePlus, RedMagic, and Poco. Apple, Samsung, and Google person not yet adopted the technology.
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