Apple cut too much by removing MagSafe from the iPhone 16e
Apple says that you can use wireless Qi chargers with the iPhone 16e and it’s true, but isn’t MagSafe and that causes problems.
One of the compromises Apple made with making a lower-cost entry to the iPhone 16 range was to remove MagSafe. Apple is correct when it says you can still use wireless charging, but that’s not the half of it.
If you have to use a Qi charger instead of MagSafe, it will take much longer and it will be so inefficient that it uses more power. And that’s if you can be certain you have placed the iPhone 16e on exactly the right spot of the Qi charger.
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