Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the new magsafe charger from apple is something that a lot
of people have questions about one of the number one questions i get asked is what charger should
i use with the usbc plug that's on the end of it and so there's quite a few options whether
you're using an apple charger or not i want to try and answer which one's the best and this charger
will charge up to 15 watts on the new iphone 12 series so if you have an iphone 12 an iphone 12
pro like this an iphone 12 mini or iphone 12 pro max you'll get the most benefit out of it because
it will charge at 15 watts thanks to it aligning right over the the charging coil properly so you
get the least loss of efficiency so you've got a coil here a coil inside the iphone and the magnets
help align it but depending on the charger you use makes a big difference now this particular charger
is also compatible with any qi compatible device it will charge with an older iphone so an iphone 8
plus for example i'll show that here and show you the charging speed and then also any qi compatible
phone from apple or android or any other device so let me go ahead and show you that and how i'm
going to show you that is i have a meter here this meter will actually measure the amount of power
going through this meter so we'll go from the charger to the meter from the meter to the device
and it will tell us the voltage the amperage and how many watts you're actually charging at
now i have a bunch of different adapters here and right away we can get rid of two of them
because the non-pd power adapters are not really going to charge you any speed meaning the usb-a
adapter which is the older five-watt charger from apple it really doesn't charge at any speed
and also the samsung adapter that's usbc or usb a to usbc or whatever you choose to use it with
so neither of these really are worth even trying they charge about half a watt so i'll show you
some of that in a moment but let's first try a standard test where we'll use the new 20 watt
adapter that apple recommends to use with magsafe now you can charge it 20 watts using this usbc
to lightning or 15 watt using magsafe adapter so first let me show you how this works at 20
watts we'll plug it in here we'll take usbc to the top of the adapter here or the meter here
and then we'll take this and plug in a usbc to lightning cable so we'll plug it in here and
depending on the charge state of your phone will make a difference as far as how fast it charges
you'll see them at 46 when we get above 80 it will slow down so let's plug it in here
you'll see it's charging now the meter turns on and immediately in the bottom right you
can actually see how much power it's drawing it takes a moment and now we're up to about 19 to 20
watts right away so this will show us exactly how much power is being brought through this
charge cable all the way over to the iphone so now let's go ahead and try it with the bag safe
so the same thing here will plug magsafe into the bottom of the meter place the phone let's go back
to the home screen place the phone on the magsafe wireless charging adapter it auto aligns itself
and sometimes to get the meter to turn on you just need to flip the cable
we'll do it there it's turning on and now it's charging the iphone 12 pro now we'll
take a moment for the wireless charger to actually negotiate and then get the higher power output so
we'll give it a minute here you'll see it's ramping up it went from five watts to seven
then to eight to nine and it will take a little bit of time to get up to 15 watts and the actual
temperature makes a difference as well if the phone is too hot it will not hit 15 watts i've
placed it or i've run a few tests rather and found that if the phone is really warm it keeps it down
below 10 watts so we'll give it a minute usually it takes 30 seconds to 60 seconds to ramp up to
15 watts i'll give it a moment and i'll show you that now it took a minute or so but you'll see
we're at about 15 watts 14 and a half watts so it's at its full speed and it will go 15 watts
it'll bounce back down and then go back above it but in general we can get 15 watts of charging
out of the 20 watt adapter through this to the iphone and it will show us that it's charging now
as you ramp up to about eighty percent charge it will slow back down now let's test out the
18 watt adapter so we'll do the same thing here swap over to the 18 watt adapter and plug it in
we'll charge and it will take a moment to connect
and then it will start ramping up the power so it takes a moment
and i don't know exactly how accurate this meter is but it seems to be okay it's measuring
all of the throughput of this power it's pretty simple and seems to be hitting the 20 watts when
you're using a 20 watt adapter to lightning but you'll see the 18 watt adapter is now at 9 watts
and in testing this i've seen it go as high as 13 but it does take some time to actually ramp
up to that speed but so far the 20 watt actually is pushing out the most amount of power so far
so you'll see we're at 11 watts takes a little bit more time
and i don't know that we'll get much more out of it than that so the 20 watt is a little bit faster
than the 18 watt which you might expect maybe we have a little bit of loss due to the wireless
charging now let's try the macbook charger so if we swap over to the macbook charger this is the
96 watt macbook charger from the 16 inch macbook pro so if we plug this in do the same thing here
you would expect that this should be able to hit 15 watts no problem but if it doesn't have the pd
profile for this particular device or to be able to handle 15 watts it may not work properly but
again let's give it a minute and see what it gets up to now what i've found in my testing
is you'll see here we're still charging we'll get to about 10 watts and then it will stop the
macbook charger doesn't seem to want to go over that so the phone is drawing 10 watts of power
and that's as high as i've ever seen it go with the macbook charger so i really don't see any
reason to use a macbook charger unless you're in a pinch or you don't have the 20 watt adapter
now let's try some third-party adapters as well so we have the power port atom pd1
from anchor let's go ahead and plug this in again it's the same sort of setup plug it in
and it will start charging the phone you'll see it's charging
and even though we're over 50 it doesn't really bring that down until about 80. that's
the charge profile it seems so you'll see we're at about nine watts of power
so it is working okay but i do see this sometimes drop down to one watt and start charging all
over again so i'm not sure why that happens but you'll see it's sitting between seven and a half
to ten watts with this this pd1 charger from anchor let's try the aki charger as well this is
a 65 watt capable charger so we'll go ahead and plug it in i've given it some time before i've
never seen it go above about 10 watts with the anchor charger we'll plug in the aki charger same
thing here again we're getting a similar sort of charging profile from this charger the aki charger
even though it's capable of 65 watts it's not pushing out the capable 15 watts that the magsafe
is capable of so i'm seeing this over and over in different devices so you'll see here we're at 9
watts and it usually hangs around that amount of power even if you let it sit for quite some time
now if we switch over to the pixel charger this is the charger that comes with a pixel four or five
so maybe you're switching to an iphone you have that usbc charger there we go we're charging
and you'll see what we get this one is a little bit more surprising i think in my tests usually
it hangs around seven and a half watts even though it's capable of more and again it's
bouncing back and forth to nine so we're getting basically the same experience as we did with the
third party chargers but not up to 15 watts again so you'll see it takes just a moment
and it usually like i said stays around seven and a half so we're not getting the same power
output as we did with the 20 watt charger if we move over to the samsung charger this
is the charger that comes with the note 20 ultra so you can see the charger here again plug it in
plug in the same connector here
we're charging again and we'll see if it ramps up so it takes a moment
and again we're getting a similar experience as we are with all the third-party chargers so
we're at 7 watts and then we're bouncing back and forth between 6 and 7 watts with this samsung
charger even though it's capable of more so a lot of that could be with the power profile that's
attached to the charger itself but we're really not getting phenomenal charging speeds with any
of them except for the 20 watt apple charger then finally for those that are curious we
have the 5 watt adapter adapted with usb a to usbc then to magsafe so we'll plug it in here
and you'll see it's only going to give us about half a watt it sits at about half a watt so i
wouldn't recommend charging with it it's just going to sort of flash here and not work properly
you get the same experience with the samsung usb a charger as well so we'll switch back to
the 20 watt adapter since we know it works best we'll plug that in plug it in again plug it into
our meter now other than with iphone 12 let's see what it charges an iphone 8 plus and 11 pro max at
since those are not the same mag safe devices but they do have qi wireless charging so let's
go ahead and we'll take the 11 pro max place the charger on the back you'll see in the upper right
it's charging and let's see what the meter does so we're getting close to about five watts now many
people think this charge is at about seven and a half so we'll see if we reach that we'll give it
a minute or so and see if we ramp up above five watts and after we've waited for a little bit of
time you'll see we're still at 5 watts so you're not really going to be charging the iphone 11 pro
max very fast with this but you will get what you would with the 5 watt charger then again i
have an iphone 8 plus and the iphone 8 plus is at eight percent charge so it's pretty low on charge
and we're already at about five watts of charging so you definitely can charge an iphone 8 plus with
it but we're not getting very fast speeds so i did hit six watts there for a second but don't expect
fast speeds with this charger on anything but the 12 it seems at least in these tests so you'll see
apple does say it can hit seven and a half and maybe if we leave it for a little bit it will
but you'll see the wattage going up and down we're hitting six
and it's going back and forth so between five and seven watts with this charger at
least from what this meter says now let's swap over to a pixel 4 xl which this is a wireless
compatible phone put the magsafe in the back and since they all use coils it should charge okay
you'll see here in the upper right it's at 65 and it's charging you've got the little
charge symbol but we're at one and a half watts so it's not charging very fast and let's move
this around maybe a little bit on the back maybe we can get a little bit better connection here
if we slide it up that seems to be about a watt and a half in the best place so it's not the best
with third-party devices so if you were thinking of getting one of these for an android phone well
so far it doesn't seem to be doing that well now many want to know how fast can we charge
with a third-party case so let's try a third-party case and then we'll try a magsafe case as well
so this is a third-party case and it will adhere just like that magnetically it aligns
it's charging we'll give it a minute to ramp up and let's see what kind of speed we can hit so
it looks like we're going to get the full charge power out of this using a third-party case we're
at 16 watts which was actually better than when it was adhered directly to the back so 16 watts or so
15 16 watts at least from this test now let's try a magsafe case so we'll take this case off
you can see this one is by case cue so i'll link that below if you want to see that so here's our
mag safe case you can see that by the ring inside for the magnets we'll just put it in place here
there we go we hear a sound that the case is connected
and we've got our magsafe adapter on the back it's charging now and let's see what we ramp up to now
the interesting thing with the magsafe case is i'm getting about 13 and a half watts now that
may be because it's getting a little bit warm i can actually feel some heat in the top of the case
so why don't i let it cool down for a moment and we'll see what it's like and see if we can get any
faster speeds i've let it run for about a minute and we're bouncing around 13 watts or 13 and a
half watts as far as the power so let me cool this down and then we'll see what it charges at now i
gave the phone a couple minutes to cool down so it's not hot to the touch anymore and i put the
connector back on the back so let's see what we ramp up to now that it's cooled down and see if
it makes a difference so now that the phone is cooled down with the case you'll see that it's
charging at 15 watts we're getting full power but apple seems to be very aggressive in reducing that
power based on the actual temperature so the charging curve you'll see we've actually hit
16 watts so it's very dependent on temperature so in conclusion what i would say is at this
point we know that the 20 watt adapter seems to be the best experience for the fastest charging
that's why i suspect they switch from the 18 watt to the 20 although i haven't confirmed this
but that makes sense so that we can have the extra power for wireless charging with magsafe
and also in conclusion i would say that if you want the best experience for the longest
fastest charge i would remove the case and then put the charger on there that way it can
dissipate the heat more more easily now maybe you're getting about the same experience with
a case but if it does start to warm up the power will go down slightly until it can cool down and
it really depends on your ambient environment here it's about 70 degrees fahrenheit so that's
the temperature i'm testing this in and then also the chargers that i've used for testing so far
the other day i charged from seven percent to 100 using the macbook charger thinking i would
get the best experience and it took over about three hours and 20 minutes or so to charge it
it's much faster using the 20 watt adapter because it can keep the power up to 15 watts with its pd
profile so keep that in mind if you are going to charge fast charging i would pick up the 20
watt adapter from apple this seems to be the only one that i'm getting a full 15 watt charge from
at least in this meters testing experience so definitely you get the 20 watt if you have it
this comes with the latest ipad air it also comes with the 2020 ipad so make sure you have
the 20 watt i think it's about 20 dollars and i'll link it in the description of course you
can use any of the others i mentioned but you just won't get the fastest speed it seems like
and again you can use it with older devices as well and it will work but just not as fast so
you will need a magsafe capable device to get that full speed now let me know what you think
of magsafe are you using it with an iphone 12 or will you be if you're picking up one
of the other models as well or you're waiting for yours let me know in the comments below
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