The Qi wireless charging standard has been around since 2010, and it’s changed quite a bit in those 15 years. What started as a puny 5W standard has evolved to, widely, 15W—not blazing fast, but still quick enough to make it worthwhile. And with the Qi2 standard, the industry adopted Apple’s MagSafe design. Since then, you’ve been able to buy chargers that magnetically connect to the wireless charging coils in your devices, so you don’t need to worry about lining everything up perfectly to charge.
Qi2 has been a standard since 2023, and even when it launched, it promised improvements down the road. Notably, the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), which develops the standard, said that Qi2’s 15W power transfer would increase in the future, allowing for faster charging. Now, in 2025, it appears those advantages are finally rolling out with Qi2.2, even as the vast majority of devices that support it (let alone Qi2) are iPhones at this point.
Qi2.2’s 25W advantage
Qi2.2, officially a recognized standard since April, builds on Qi2 by, among other things, offering power transfers up to 25W while retaining magnetic connections. With the right cable and power adapter, 25W would offer some solid speed improvements over 15W. Apple’s iPhone 16, with its latest MagSafe charger and a 30W power adapter, for example, supports 25W wireless charging, and can go from 0–50% battery in 30 minutes. (15W MagSafe does the same in roughly 45 minutes.) Not bad for wire-free charging.
That MagSafe puck is Qi2, not Qi2.2, as well. Once we see Qi2.2 products hit shelves, we’ll see how well they perform against Apple’s current MagSafe platform. (Apple is also supposedly working on Qi2.2 MagSafe chargers.)
What do you think so far?
It seems those third-party Qi2.2 chargers are closer than ever, however. As reported by The Verge, there are now charging products listed with the WPC that support Qi2.2. That includes:
None of these Qi2.2 are quite ready yet. UGREEN’s power bank, for example, is set for a fall 2025 release. But it’s good to know companies are getting the ball rolling on this new Qi standard. Hopefully we’ll see these products sooner rather than later, and, in tandem, more support for Qi2 and above from smartphone manufacturers, as well. Apple supports Qi2 on iPhone 12 and newer, but only the HDM Skyline currently supports the standard on Android.
