iPhone users are amazed by a little-known charging hack – as one claims ‘this is the future’
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For every smartphone owner, there is nothing more annoying than running out of battery at crucial moments.
But luckily, a little-known charging hack can give iPhone users a few extra hours of juice.
When two iPhone 15s are connected with a USB-C cable, the one with the lower battery level will charge the other.
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Someone replied ‘this is the future’, while another said ‘this is how you show someone you really love them.’
The little-known trick allows an iPhone 15 to donate charge to another iPhone. In the photo the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which was released last September. The iPhone 15 models were the first iPhones to feature USB-C charging ports
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Once connected via cable, the two iPhone 15 devices will automatically communicate to know which one has the lowest battery percentage.
The iPhone with more battery charge will then power the other, while losing charge itself, according to Apple reseller iStyle.
On Apple’s community pageSome users noted that the trick also worked when using an iPhone 15 to charge an older iPhone model.
One person said the iPhone 15’s charge went from 98 to 89 percent to boost an iPhone 11 from 10 to 32 percent.
However, an older iPhone model cannot charge an iPhone 15 – only the other way around.
Moreover, the trick is not possible between two older devices – such as two iPhone 11s.
On X (Twitter), someone responded to iPhone user Sheel Mohnot’s post with the words “this is the future”
Another said: ‘This is how you show someone you really love them’
As of last year, Apple was effectively forced by the EU to put USB-C charging ports on iPhones. A customer holds an iPhone 15 at a store in Los Angeles, California, on September 22, 2023, global release day
Of course, if you want to charge an iPhone 15 with another iPhone 15, you’ll need a cable with a USB-C connector on both ends.
Meanwhile, if you want to charge an older iPhone with an iPhone 15, you’ll need a cable with USB-C on one end and Lightning on the other.
In case you missed it, Apple started putting USB-C charging ports on its iPhones last year, starting with the iPhone 15.
Previously, Apple had used ‘Lightning’, the tech giant’s own in-house charging design.
Apple was essentially forced to switch to USB-C by the European Union, which ruled in 2022 that having just one charging cord that can work with multiple devices from different manufacturers will reduce electronic waste.
Before the iPhone 15, iPhones had Apple’s own power connector technology ‘Lightning’, recognizable by the eight pins (photo)
However, Apple seemed unhappy with the law, arguing that it would “limit the industry’s ability to innovate.”
The same month the law was signed, Apple CEO Greg Joswiak said the tech giant would comply — but only because it “had to” and had “no choice.”
“But we think the approach would have been better for the environment and for our customers if there wasn’t a government that was so prescriptive,” he said.
