Other Fast charging

[Susurs]

As I told previously in this thread: My 7 Plus charged from 0-100% in 100min (0-50% in 35min) using Apple 29w/USB-C. I don’t care whether you call it fast charging or something else, but it seems to charge faster than some iPhones 8 here so far...

And my X takes 120 minutes to fully charge with the same 29W charger.... with a lower capacity battery... I would assume there is no different/better ‘fast charging’ hardware technology in the phone itself...

 

[Tania Thomas]

has anyone fast charging stopped after update to 11.0.2 on iPhone 7

Yes, my iPad 12.9 inch was using fast charging but this stopped after the ios 11 update. to make things worse, I did the update literally two days after I could go back to using 10, as Apple had stopped signing of the older operating system.

I had a third-party charger but an official Apple cable and that worked under ios 10 but stopped the day after the 11 update. Nightmare. so I tried out a combination of official Apple charges with third-party cable and vice a versa and neither worked.
I think now in retrospect Apple have decided that if it's not MFI in both parts that the iPad will sense that and it charges at a slow trickle speed. A poor show all around.
they will probably hide behind some sort of safety issue with third-party charges and all cables but I think it's a cynical ploy to buy the official kit instead
[doublepost=1511729530][/doublepost]...as a subsequent follow-up to my phone message, I find that using the 12 watt adapter that comes with the iPad actually ends up losing power if you are using it. The 29 watt adapter really ought to come with the iPad 12.9 as standard, as this allows positive charging whilst using. In reality you only get around 3 to 4 hours of use at best when plugged in, so the 29 watt charger is a godsend. charging friend powered off results and around 90 minutes to a full charge rather than eight hours also with the supplied 12 for adapter, a much more realistic and productive use of time especially for an iPad which is considered a business end product and where people may be using this all day long.

Apple really haven't thought this one through have they

 

[nephron8]

https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Charging-METRANS-Delivery-Charge/dp/B077SYLT6K

What cable is recommended?

 

[daffie]

Just to give an idea of charging times on an iPhone X...

 

[nephron8]

Yes, my iPad 12.9 inch was using fast charging but this stopped.....

Apple really haven't thought this one through have they

Apple wants you to spend money on those adapters and special cables.
Its both ways apple benefit.
By giving 12 watts adapter with default lightning cable,they get margins on scale. Its production running for multiple years. So i doubt it costs apple more than 2 $ for the charging kit.

On the other hand they get 25$ for power delivery cable and another 49$ for 29 watt charger.