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MagSafe Battery Pack
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Mine is preparing for shipment. It will come via ground i think. It is a standalone battery pack. Im hoping apple store near me will show up. If it does ill pick that one up and return the one being delivered.
When you say it doesn’t have support - I presume it still charges the phone, you just can check charge status etc in the software?
When it wants to, it does like the old battery cases did where it will keep cutting on and off until it stays on or off. And it shows as a lightning cord image on the battery widget. I reported to Apple already. It wants to charge but will only show it is sometimes. And I actually haven't seen my battery percentage go up at all. The case says 100% but my phone battery stayed at 71% after 1 hour of keeping the case on. It may literally need whatever support Apple put in iOS 14.7 which is not in 15 beta 3.
Just did my drain charge test with a dead iPhone 12 mini and a fully charged MagSafe Battery Pack. Only waking up the screen every 15 minutes to check battery %.
Cellular on and WIFI and Bluetooth on. DND on (so no notifications). I won't ever charge with all those things off so I thought that's a bit more realistic. However there was no interaction with the phone the whole time (nor did it get notifications) other than waking it up to check the battery %.
On an iPhone 12 mini it appears to give you another 79% of charge, obviously lower on other models:
15m: 12%
30m: 24%
45m: 33%
1h: 41%
1h15m: 49%
1h30m: 57%
1h45m: 64%
2h: 71%
2h15m: 77%
2h20m: 79%
Then the MagSafe Battery Pack depletes.
Cellular on and WIFI and Bluetooth on. DND on (so no notifications). I won't ever charge with all those things off so I thought that's a bit more realistic. However there was no interaction with the phone the whole time (nor did it get notifications) other than waking it up to check the battery %.
On an iPhone 12 mini it appears to give you another 79% of charge, obviously lower on other models:
15m: 12%
30m: 24%
45m: 33%
1h: 41%
1h15m: 49%
1h30m: 57%
1h45m: 64%
2h: 71%
2h15m: 77%
2h20m: 79%
Then the MagSafe Battery Pack depletes.
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70-80 % is all I needed, it sounds great to me. can you tell me about the heat? does it make the iPhone warm/hot? I also wonder how good will it work when I will use the iPhone while charging? My use case for this would be when traveling. 100% battery on iPhone, attach Magsafe Battery and to use first it's battery and then during the day detach it and use iPhone's battery only.
It ranged from not warm at all (the first 30min probably) to a little bit warm. Nothing near hot. This is for both the phone and the pack. My use case is similar, I would also prefer it to use the pack first before using the internal phone battery. That I have yet to test.
I am not clear on how it charges the phone. Past batteries would take a phone, say it was at 97 percent and the battery pack, once attached, would charge the phone to 100 - and keep the phone at 100 percent until the pack is drained, before starting to use the phone's battery.
But what I am see is, phone at 97 percent, bat pack at 100, the little iPhone charging icon on the iPhone is displayed, but the phone charge keeps dropping, 97. 96. 95, while the bat pack stays at 100.
When does the battery pack start charging the phone?
But what I am see is, phone at 97 percent, bat pack at 100, the little iPhone charging icon on the iPhone is displayed, but the phone charge keeps dropping, 97. 96. 95, while the bat pack stays at 100.
When does the battery pack start charging the phone?
After some research, you are right. It started charging at 89 percent, now its 91. I got the impression it will never charge to 100, it will just maintain 90 percent-ish, due to battery wear prevention. But it also seems that someone like me, who wants to keep the phone at 100 until the battery pack dies, then start drawing on the phone (e.g, bluetooth streaming while working out, then disconnect the bat pack for the rest of the day) is leaving 10 percent of the phone's charge on the table.
Yes practically as you mentioned, it will remain 90 percent. I actually prefer this as i dont like keeping my devices charged at 100%. For my MBP M1, i have the charge limiting program called aldente installed and have it set to maintain the charge till 80% and i never let it go 100%.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212174
According to this support article, it is possible to charge past 90%:
“When you're using your MagSafe Battery Pack to charge your iPhone, you might get a notification that says your iPhone will charge only up to 90%. To charge past 90%, open Control Center, press and hold the Low Power Mode icon*, then tap Continue.”
I wonder if you have to do that every time you use the bat pack. I'm guessing yes. But I'll try it with default 90 and see how that works for me. Thanks all.
Just picked up mine (12 Pro, sorry to the above) and the guy in the store wanted me to open and test it there and then. 0% battery (as heard about before here) - confirmed on his phone as well as mine.
Weirdly, we plugged it in to one of the display iPhone lightning cables and he said wait 5 minutes. I was impatient and waited only 3. I checked it and it showed over 20%. I don’t believe it really charged 20% in less than 5 minutes.
I can only think there’s some calibration that goes on after it is connected to power for the first time, and it might be best to wait a week or two before really measuring its performance?
Weirdly, we plugged it in to one of the display iPhone lightning cables and he said wait 5 minutes. I was impatient and waited only 3. I checked it and it showed over 20%. I don’t believe it really charged 20% in less than 5 minutes.
I can only think there’s some calibration that goes on after it is connected to power for the first time, and it might be best to wait a week or two before really measuring its performance?
The two ways to charge it are from the iPhone through MagSafe and from a Lightning cable plugged in. I don't see how it could be charged wirelessly by itself.
Yes low power mode will do that. But also turns some features off. Plus I’d rather not keep it fully 100% for long duration.
I own both (mini & blue silicone) but my order has been "preparing for shipment" for a few days now. UK - no idea if its a case of "you can't have it before friday, so it'll be shipped tomorrow" (which means synchreon fulfilment), or whether its actually being shipped from china and who knows
