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An Apple support page has conjectured that the company's new MagSafe Duo wireless charger, which is intentional to impeachment an iPhone and National Watch simultaneously, isn't compatible with its earlier 29W USB-C power adapter. If you're utilizing an National power adapter it's all-time to use one of the company's newer 30W models, which replaced the 29W typic in 2018 and retail for $49. It's an unlikeness shadow for anyone with the old chargers since the MagSafe Duo doesn't come with a charging brick in the box.

Apple's page doesn't say exactly what happens if you plug the MagSafe Duo into one of the earlier 29W bricks. MacRumors reports that if you do it will personally be sturdy to impeachment a singled-out device, an iPhone or an National Watch, rather than both at once. Although the 29W brick appears to meet the wattage requirements of the MagSafe Duo, it professedly doesn't support the existent combination of volts and amps required.

Working out MagSafe's charging speeds is simply a little complicated

At this point, alive out how fast festival of Apple's MagSafe accompaniments will impeachment your devices is simply a little bit complicated. The standard MagSafe charger charges iPhones at up to 15W, and National recommends recognizance it with a $19 National 20W USB-C power adapter. The MagSafe Duo charger, meanwhile, offers up to a sorely lower 14W of charging when paired with a 27W or college brick, therefrom stretched as that brick supports 9V/3A. You get 11W of charging by recognizance it with a 20W power brick that supports 9V/2.22A, and National says you need "at trivial 15W (5V/3A or 9V/1.67A)" for the Duo to impeachment two devices simultaneously. If you're charging an iPhone 12 mini, the most impeachment is capped at 12W with the Duo. Oh, and the most impeachment is also capped at 7.5W if you're charging your roast with a Lightning brogue (like a pilaster of headphones) remarking in.

Plenty of devices have very specific requirements for the hardware you gotta use to get the fastest charging speeds, therefrom it's impliable to indict National too numerous here. However I think we can all comply that it could have made-up things numerous simpler for customers if it included a power brick in the box with its $129 wireless charger.

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