Faster Qi2 wireless charging coming to iPhones and some Android phones

Wireless charging is about to get a lot faster.

The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), an open standards development group of more than 300 members who work together to ensure compatibility between wireless chargers and power sources, announced a new, faster standard for wireless charging today: Qi2 25W.

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Qi2 25W will deliver nearly 70% more power than the original 15W Qi2, which launched in November, 2023.

The new standard will be available on iPhones and "major Android smartphones." The WPC says 13 devices, receivers, and transmitters completed Qi2 25W certification testing in a limited launch last week, and several hundred are waiting to be tested. Presumably, that includes phones, chargers, and power banks. 

Within a year of Qi2 15W's introduction, more than 1.5 billion certified Qi2 transmitters and receivers were in the market worldwide.

Before Qi2, the WPC ...