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iPhone 16 series to support much faster cable charging

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Michail 12 September 2024

Apple iOS

Apple tends to omit detailed specifications for its iPhones and instead uses arbitrary terms for the most part. That includes wired charging speeds where the new iPhone 16 series, like their predecessors, are quoted to offer a 50% charge in 30 minutes when using Apple’s official 20W USB-C power adapter.

iPhone 15 Pro Max with Apple 20W power adapter
iPhone 15 Pro Max with Apple 20W power adapter

That’s all that Apple is saying on its official specs page, but a series of certifications from China confirms that Apple has dramatically upped the charging speed potential on the iPhone 16 series – peaking at 45W.

As per the China Quality Certification Centre (CQC), iPhone 16 (A3288), iPhone 16 Plus (A3291), iPhone 16 Pro (A3294), and iPhone 16 Pro Max (A3297) all support charging at 5-15 volts and 3 amps. This means up to 45W peak charging speeds which would be a notable improvement over the outgoing iPhone 15 series devices which topped out at 27-29W.

Listings on CQC for the four new iPhone 16 models Listings on CQC for the four new iPhone 16 models Listings on CQC for the four new iPhone 16 models Listings on CQC for the four new iPhone 16 models
Listings on CQC for the four new iPhone 16 models

Apple officially quotes the same 50% in 30 minutes charging speeds for its new iPhone 16s but the key is that those figures reached with the official Apple 20W USB-C power adapter. This means the new iPhones should be able to take advantage of higher-powered chargers using the power delivery (PD) standard. It remains to be seen if this will deliver a meaningful improvement in 0-100% charging times.

Via (in Chinese)

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  • skJ
  • 05 Oct 2024

Yet, your math does not add up, android is still on more then 80% active smartphones in the world while ios on not more then 10%, but hey have fun, your math does make me smile and seams similar with apple math, for them 16 gb ram costs 500€, only a ...

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  • Anonymous
  • kTC
  • 25 Sep 2024

Does anyone know why my iPhone 16 Pro Max only with the charging cable but no Damn charger?

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  • Anonymous
  • Fv1
  • 16 Sep 2024

1. Apple does not sell more phones than BBK group (a smartphone manufacturer), my source proved this. all of its brands combined objectively sell the most handsets monthly and yearly. 2. high end vs low end makes literally no difference. a sale is ...

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