- I just received the Apple MagSafe battery for iPhone 12.
And we're going to unbox this and...
I'm sorry, what's that?
And that's confirmed?
Well. Okay, as it turns out,
I'm not the first person to get this MagSafe battery pack,
but you know what, hey, it's new to me.
We're gonna unbox it anyway.
Hey, I'm Jerry, and I'm not the first person to unbox this
because I just received mine for some reason,
but let's unbox it and let's test it out
on my iPhone 12 Pro.
So there is super minimal packaging
as you would expect from Apple.
And inside this box, you actually get
less than you usually get.
You literally just have a battery
and some documentation which nobody cares about.
There's not even any little Apple stickers in this thing.
So that was a super easy unboxing,
and a little bit of plastic.
And there we go.
So there it is.
The MagSafe battery pack from Apple that
people have been waiting for Apple to deliver
since the release of the iPhone 12, which was what,
something like 9, 10 months ago.
I mean, it's been a long time.
So the whole case on the outside is kind of a matte plastic.
It's not shiny, and it's got a little bit of grip to it.
On the bottom you have a lightning port and a status port.
And then of course on the back side,
you have the MagSafe adapter.
So the magnets to connect it to the back of the iPhone.
And that's of course where the CHE charging stuff or
whatever is behind there.
Now I've already updated my iPhone 12 Pro to 14.7
which is required for the full functionality
of this MagSafe battery pack.
And obviously to connect it,
all you do is slap it on the back.
But you know what?
I heard that you actually have to plug this thing in
one time to a lightening cable
before it will actually do anything.
So you can see that it's actually connected to the phone,
but the status isn't really fully there.
If we disconnect it and reconnect it,
we don't get any animation showing that it's connected.
So let's go ahead and plug that in.
I have a 20 Watt Apple power adapter
connected to this cable.
So plug it in for just a moment.
We get an orange status light.
So I guess the things, you know, quote,
unquote activating or something.
And now we should be able to connect it to the back of the
phone and get a little bit more status.
All right. There we go.
So now we actually see the charge status
of MagSafe adapter right there.
And if we disconnected and reconnect it,
we should get some kind of animation
that shows that it's connected.
Okay. For some reason it didn't work the first time,
but it should work now.
And magic.
There we go.
So we can see that my iPhone is charged at 7%.
This has got around 25% charge
on the MagSafe battery pack itself.
Now, I'm not sure if you saw that,
but when I connected the MagSafe battery,
I did get a notification on the iPhone saying that this
MagSafe battery could charge my iPhone
up to approximately 90%.
Now I'm not sure how accurate that is
seeing that the phone is less than 10%,
the battery itself is at about 25%.
I'm not sure it can get to 90%.
I don't know if that will update over time
when you're connected.
After I swiped away the notification,
it has not come back.
So I don't know if I'll get an updated notification
at some later point after it's been on for a while
or after it's disconnected for a while,
then I reconnect it to the phone.
I'm curious to know if that notification will change
and say, hey, you only may actually get
up to 50% charge on your iPhone.
Now I did notice if you go to settings, general, about,
and then click on MagSafe battery pack,
you'll see the serial number, model number,
and the hardware firmware version of the battery pack.
So I assume that there could be some kind of
firmware updates that come out over time
to make slight adjustments to how the charging happens.
Now I wanted to know what happens if you have
the battery attached and you connect
the lightening cable to either device.
So let's go ahead and try
connecting it to the battery first.
So you see that actually both devices are charging.
Apple says that if you're using a 20 Watt power adapter
connected to the battery pack itself,
it can charge, via MagSafe, up to 15 Watts to the iPhone.
So normally you get about a five Watt charge
when charging from the battery pack to the iPhone
when nothing's connected with a power cable,
but when a cable is attached to the MagSafe battery,
you can get up to 15 Watts from the battery to the iPhone.
So now let's see what happens when we connect
the lightening adapter to the iPhone.
What should happen is the iPhone will start
wirelessly charging the MagSafe battery.
So as you can see, the battery is now charging,
even though we're connected to the iPhone itself
and not the battery pack.
Now, as far as thickness of the battery goes,
I mean, it's a battery.
The battery is slightly thicker than
the iPhone 12 pro by itself.
But when you add in the Apple silicone case,
it ends up being roughly the same thickness
as what the case is.
So if we put these two together,
you can see that they're roughly the same thickness.
So if you're using an Apple silicone case with MagSafe,
then you're essentially going to double the thickness of it.
And of course, this does attach to the case
because the case itself has magnets.
And then all three of them can work together in tandem and
charge through the case from the battery to the iPhone.
And one question, a lot of people have had is
can the MagSafe battery charge other devices
with just standard CHE charging?
If I stick my AirPods on there, you can see that
bam, they start charging.
So yes, you can charge other devices at 5 Watts
from the MagSafe battery.
And that's about it. It's $99 if you want to pick one up.
I'm going to be doing some more tests against this
Anker PowerCore Magnetic 5k wireless charger,
which is very similar.
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