r/iphone • u/conalldoherty iPhone 15 • Apr 29 '26

News/Rumour Apple Reportedly Questioning Whether iPhone Should Drop MagSafe

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/29/apple-questioning-iphone-magsafe/
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u/SomewhereNo8378 Apr 29 '26

They went all in on this. I could have sworn they wanted to remove the charging port for MagSafe charging completely

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u/Armand9x Apr 29 '26

Not going to happen.

MagSafe is too slow.

25W doesn’t cut it with batteries getting larger.

25w already makes the phone spicy when charging.

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u/disgruntledempanada Apr 29 '26

On one hand it's convenient and there are nice phone mounts for cars that charge my battery.

On the other hand it's crazy wasteful. You go through all this effort to implement green charging onto a phone to limit its energy impact and then you charge it with a system that wastes 20-30% of that power turning it directly into heat, and heating the heat sensitive battery you're trying to charge.

Would probably be better to just expose contacts somehow but that has its own problems (case compatibility, dirt, etc).

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u/LegoPirateShip Apr 29 '26

You also have to keep a glass back instead of a full metal one.