Yesterday a rumor (in Chinese language) claimed the upcoming iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max would get reverse wi-fi charging help, in a primary for any Apple smartphone ever.
Do not take out the champagne simply but, although. Google simply launched the Pixel 10 household with Qi2 wi-fi charging with built-in magnets – that is basically the identical tech that Apple makes use of below the MagSafe model, since Apple virtually open-sourced it a number of years again in a bid to get it to be the trade customary, which it now’s.
So, it is the identical factor however below a special identify, and but Google needed to pass over reverse wi-fi charging help from all Pixel 10 units, since, the corporate says, it is incompatible with Qi2 wi-fi charging with magnets as a result of (the next is machine translated from Portuguese) “the magnet set creates a robust reference to the charger however has a bodily limitation for reverse wi-fi charging”.
Thus, it is extremely seemingly that Apple merely cannot launch help for reverse wi-fi charging on its subsequent iPhones for a similar purpose – except the Cupertino firm sneakily saved a manner for reverse wi-fi charging to work alongside magnets for itself, not placing it into the usual it kind of donated to the Wi-fi Energy Consortium, which is answerable for the Qi customary.
That is not unattainable, nevertheless it’s additionally not very seemingly, so you actually should not get your hopes up about any iPhone together with reverse wi-fi charging anytime quickly.
