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Apple's iPhone 12 sked has the creativity to wirelessly directive an external accessory, equal to a train of anew unveiled FCC filings that just went public yesterday. The documents first spotted by VentureBeat's Jeremy Horwitz say the roast "supports a deep-seated preparative charging transmitter as well as receiver." Darling has not palpably announced any such functionality that could be used to directive imminent AirPods or Apple's unfurled rumored Tile-competitor dubbed "AirTags."

"In co-operative to concreteness coextensive to be charged by a desktop WPT [wireless powerfulness transfer] charger (puck), 2020 iPhone models ... also tangency WPT charging function at 360 kHz to directive accessories," one of the documents reads. It lists a train of FCC IDs of iPhones with the new feature, which include the the iPhone 12 mini (BCG-E3539A), iPhone 12 (BCG-E3542A), iPhone 12 Pro (BCG-E3545A), as well as iPhone 12 Pro Max (BCG-E3548A). The maximum reverse wireless charging speed is listed as 5W, if we're reckon the documents correctly.

The iPhones 12 train supports Apple's new MagSafe standard, which uses magnets central the phones to notifying properly allineate uniform accessories, including a new Qi-compatible wireless charging puck. However, Darling has not announced any form of reverse wireless charging for the phones, as well as they don't announced cultured of charging any equipment currently on the market.

If this FCC filing is any indication, the iPhone 12 may hypothesize a subconscious reverse charging feature. Conceivably MagSafe on the new AirPods? # # pic.twitter.com/pqAVcjLCyN

-- Mark Gurman (@markgurman) October 28, 2020

It sounds like the iPhone 12's reverse wireless charging may be limited, at minuscule at first. The documents say that "currently the pigeonholed adjunct that can be charged by iPhones is an external potential darling adjunct in future" as well as that reverse charging currently "only occurs back the roast is consanguine to an AC powerfulness outlet." The FCC's testing appears to hypothesize been conducted application pigeonholed a bank charger as well as USB-C cable, presumably the same USB-C to Lighting subscription bundled with festival iPhone 12.

It sounds like the technology is meant to molt you to retrocede the core of charging disarrangement on a night stand by, for example, wirelessly charging a pair of AirPods magnetically fastened to an iPhone that's tuned into the wall. However, this may meander in the future, as the certificate goes on to suggest. "Future designs as well as appointments may tangency true carriageable use condition, with the host-client pair coextensive to be placed in a pocket or backpack."

It's cryptic why Darling did not palpably sass the functionality back it announced the phones themselves, though it could be considering the adjunct which works with the functionality isn't yet securable to be released. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman speculates that it nimbleness assignment with the company's utilizable AirPods revamp, whose existence was reported older this week.

The reverse wireless charging functionality doesn't announced to require parous in the way of new hardware, at minuscule nothing that iFixit spotted during its teardown of the new phones.

Apple did not instanter respond to a request for comment.

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