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- If you need to charge your iPhone in a hurry, there are many things you can do to make the charging process faster.
- Don’t charge wirelessly or plug your iPhone into a computer. And the more wattage your wall charger provides, the faster the phone will charge.
- You should also turn off your iPhone or put it in Airplane Mode to help it charge faster.
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Charging up your iPhone sounds like it should be a straight forward task. But there are a lot of ways to speed up (or unintentionally slow down) the charging process.
If you’re in a hurry and need more battery life as quickly as possible, here’s how to make your iPhone charge faster.
Check out the products mentioned in this article:
iPhone Xs (From $999 at Apple)
iPhone 8 (From $399 at Apple)
30W USB-C Power Adapter (From $49 at Apple)
USB-C to Lightning Cable (1 m) (From $19 at Apple)
30 Watt USB-C Wall Charger (From $25.99 at Apple)
30 Watt USB-C Charger (From $13.99 at Apple)
Use a wall charger
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First thing’s first: Using a wall charger — any wall charger — is going to be faster than plugging your phone into a computer’s USB port. Use a wall charger if you have one.
But not all wall chargers are equal. In general, the higher the device’s wattage, the faster it can deliver a charge to your iPhone. The wall charger that comes with your iPhone is relatively anemic, rated at 5 watts.
If you have an iPad, use the wall charger that came with it instead, since it delivers 12 watts and charges about 33 percent faster.
If you have a new iPhone, use a fast charger
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The newest crop of iPhones (which include the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and the iPhone X family) include fast charging. Paired with the right wall charger, these phones can go from empty to 50 percent charge in half an hour.
Apple doesn’t include a fast charger in the box, though. You need to purchase a fast charger and a USB-C to Lightning cable. Apple offers its own 30 Watt USB-C Power Adapter and USB-C to Lightning adapter cable.
There are other fast charging options as well. Anker offers a 30 Watt USB-C Wall Charger, for example, and iClever has its own 30 Watt USB-C Charger. There are a lot of affordable choices.
Don’t charge wirelessly
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Wireless charging (if you have a newer iPhone, or you’ve put an old iPhone in a wireless charging case) is admittedly a convenience. But like most conveniences, this one has an unintended cost: slow charging.
Wireless chargers work much more slowly than plugging the phone into a Lightning cable, which is why you should skip wireless if you’re in a hurry.
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- Apple’s design guru Jony Ive designed a lot of unusual things you’d never expect to come from the person behind the iPhone — check them out
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