so i wasn't originally going to make this video and since i'm doing a few more tech videos on the
channel this year don't worry if you're wondering whether i'm regularly going to be making entire
videos dedicated to literally just one iphone accessory because the answer is no the reason i'm
doing is i actually felt like this is a bit of a public service because there is absolutely no way
that you should buy the apple magsafe battery pack and i'm going to explain why so first of all let's
discuss briefly good things about this battery pack because of course it's an apple product and
there are some good things namely i think it's the design and the build i think this is really
a pretty elegant product apart from it being a bit thick and beefy it is also pretty substantial
and my particular favorite thing about it is this really nice soft matte plastic that somehow just
feels really premium its integration into ios is also really nice simply by adding the little
battery widget to my home screen i can quickly see charging status and how much charge both the
iphone and the battery pack have i also have to admit i do really just love the way the charger
actually works and functions it's a really neat little idea to just have this little add-on you
can carry around if you're looking for that little extra boost of power so far so good
but let's get into the bad stuff first of all we have the fact that wireless charging just still
isn't that good and that's for a few reasons key wireless charging about 50 efficient so you're
literally going to be getting about half of your battery's capacity going into the device that
you're charging now magsafe is a little bit more efficient than this this edge is around about 70
efficiency so you're losing less power but overall it is still really inefficient due to
heat and magnetic energy loss so crutching some of the numbers here and i'll share the article
that i'm basing this on from a website called apple insider down below in the description
purely based on capacity and power output i should be able to charge this iphone 12 mini about 130
however in practice i could actually only charge the iphone 12 mini by 81 using the phone hardly at
all whilst the actual was actually charging and that was from like one percent so it charged 81
in total this obviously becomes more of an issue when using other devices like the iphone 12 pro
max or the iphone 12 pro which have significantly bigger batteries than this iphone 12 mini in fact
apple's own article here shows pretty accurate timings based on these different devices so here's
the official support article for the magsafe battery pack from apple we can scroll down here
and we can see the estimated charges from apple for the different devices up to 70 additional
charge with the iphone 12 mini or iphone 13 mini 60 of additional charge with the iphone 12 or
iphone 13 same on the 12 pro and iphone 13 pro and just 40 percent additional charge with the iphone
12 pro max or 13 pro max only a 40 extra boost for a dedicated charger that you've brought with
you isn't exactly fantastic wireless charging also just isn't very powerful at all so it takes a long
long time to charge your device using this iphone 12 mini again to demonstrate with zero phone usage
it took two hours to charge up this device by 80 so that's a full charge on that iphone 12 mini a
total of two hours start to finish and really taking all of this into consideration for me
my biggest overarching issue with this product is that there's basically no reason you should
buy this accessory and what i mean by that is there's no reason you should buy this over some
of the alternatives on the market especially when this device this magsafe charger costs 99
so what are those alternatives let's talk about some of them both of these suggestions come from
anka they're a really brilliant company that make really good charging solutions for iphones but
also obviously also android phones and they're basically just key wireless charging copies of
the magsafe battery this first one has a massive capacity of 5 000 milliamp hours which is a much
much bigger charger than the magsafe charger but this obviously still suffers with the problems
from just key charging or wireless charging in general so don't expect two whole charges out of
most iphones in practice this should deliver about an additional 40 performance increase
on the magsafe battery but it literally costs half the price and this particular one is my favorite
again it's from anker and essentially looks exactly the same as the official apple product
just with some tiny differences this also has a five thousand million power battery so should be
a similar to performance to the first battery and even includes a nifty little magnetic stand oh and
the total price of this one sixty dollars let's not forget that the main reason you're actually
carrying this little device round in the first place is to charge up your device when you're
out and about and overall i just don't really know why you go for a product that number one
isn't essentially charging your device to full and that's kind of cross the board across the
iphone line and number two is losing roughly 30 of its capacity just like to heat and stuff not
to mention it also takes an insane amount of time to actually charge the device in the first place
i think overall i just really think that the improvement of not having a cable is lost by
the inefficiencies of wireless charging and i recommend just going for a super nice external
battery pack that you can kind of chuck in a bag maybe with a cable or maybe just with this little
small mini cable that charges most iphones four or five times over and often comes with quick
charging technology so you can literally get up to 50 in normally around about half an hour i
will link some of those batteries down below in the description so anyway that's my rant about
the apple magsafe battery pack i hope that helped was interesting and i'll catch you guys next time