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Reverse wireless charging was one of the rumored features for the iPhone 11 last year, but Apple reportedly removed it from the final version of the devices. Now, FCC filings for the iPhone 12 have revealed that this year’s devices could have a functional reverse wireless charging system.
Following the iPhone 11 rumors in 2019, iFixit disassembled the new smartphones as usual and later found that the iPhone 11 Pro has some components that are part of a bilateral wireless charging system, but it was not finished, so it doesn’t work at all.
While this suggests that Apple did indeed attempt to implement this technology in last year’s iPhones, there were no rumors about bilateral wireless charging on the iPhone 12. However, new FCC files suggest that the new phones might have this technology.
As Jeremy Horwitz first discovered, the FCC documentation for the iPhone 12 models brings up some interesting details on how these devices can be recharged wirelessly. FCC says that iPhone 12 works with regular Qi chargers and also with a new “360 kHz charging feature” that can recharge accessories.
This is an interesting fact as Apple hasn’t mentioned anything about this feature on stage, and this is clearly disabled on iPhone 12 devices, at least for now. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman then suggested that Apple might be withholding this new reverse charge via MagSafe for the rumored AirPods 3 and AirPods Pro 2.
Apple could of course announce new AirPods that work specifically with the iPhone 12’s new MagSafe system, which would explain why they haven’t mentioned anything about reverse wireless charging for now. Unfortunately, further details on this are unknown for now.
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