Magsafe makes use of the mounted QI popular for wi-fi charging, so in idea it ought to be feasible to rate any telecellsmartphone that helps QI, which incorporates all iPhone fashions released from 2017 and later.
However, it’s a bit greater complex than that. In exams it’s been showed that iPhone fashions older than the iPhone 12 collection rate extraordinarily slowly with the MagSafe charger. Also observe that the iPhone 12 mini handiest fees at 12 watts with MagSafe.
In a test (that may be watched on Max Tech’s Youtube channel below) an iPhone eleven Pro become set to rate through a MagSafe charger and at instances become receiving as low as 0.ninety six watts – a long way from the 7.five watts that the iPhone eleven Pro ought to be capable of handle. iPhone SE additionally confirmed similarly sluggish charging.
Macrumors has additionally examined charging an iPhone XS Max with MagSafe, and showed that charging become very sluggish. In that case a 30 minutes rate noticed handiest thirteen percentage added.
In different words, it looks like a awful concept to shop for a MagSafe charger for a iPhone if it isn’t a part of the iPhone 12 collection.
There is any other trouble with MagSafe! Read: Apple warns: MagSafe can depart spherical marks on leather-based cases.