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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024
I’ve been looking forward to Ankers Qi2 magnetic battery packs for some time now, and after testing it out I’m just somewhat satisfied. The product itself delivers on its promise, but I’m not sure Qi2 does much difference in a battery pack format for use with iPhones.
I’m on an iPhone 15 Pro, and usually charge it up when it hits 20% battery remaining. Using this pack, the charging starts off quickly at 15w speed, but as the battery pack and the phone heats up a bit the charging speed throttles down to just a few watts. It does not get very hot, less than other battery packs, but hot enough for the wireless charging to lower the wattage. I compared the overall speed to charging with the Apple Magsafe Battery pack at 7.5w, and it’s nearly as fast as this Anker when charging an iPhone 15 Pro from 20% up to 80%. The Apple one is however fully depleted at that time, while the Anker has 60% capacity left and can take the iPhone battery back to 100. That might take some time however due to the throttling.
Weight wise the Anker is on the heavier end, but it’s also 10k mah capacity. The kickstand will only work standing up vertically, not horizontally, it’s a bit flimsy and not as usable as on the Belkin packs. The indicator screen on the Anker is great, I really like to see the remaining percentage rather than guessing by four light indicators as many other power banks have. It’s also more convenient than the Apple one that you need to connect to the iPhone to see if it has any power remaining.
Whether this is worth the money depends on your use case, just don’t buy it for wireless charging speed because that doesn’t really matter much. I’m happy with it and will use it when traveling but my older Belkin or Apple battery packs will remain daily drivers. I might look a bit at the new Belkin when they arrive later this year if they are a bit smaller.
I’m on an iPhone 15 Pro, and usually charge it up when it hits 20% battery remaining. Using this pack, the charging starts off quickly at 15w speed, but as the battery pack and the phone heats up a bit the charging speed throttles down to just a few watts. It does not get very hot, less than other battery packs, but hot enough for the wireless charging to lower the wattage. I compared the overall speed to charging with the Apple Magsafe Battery pack at 7.5w, and it’s nearly as fast as this Anker when charging an iPhone 15 Pro from 20% up to 80%. The Apple one is however fully depleted at that time, while the Anker has 60% capacity left and can take the iPhone battery back to 100. That might take some time however due to the throttling.
Weight wise the Anker is on the heavier end, but it’s also 10k mah capacity. The kickstand will only work standing up vertically, not horizontally, it’s a bit flimsy and not as usable as on the Belkin packs. The indicator screen on the Anker is great, I really like to see the remaining percentage rather than guessing by four light indicators as many other power banks have. It’s also more convenient than the Apple one that you need to connect to the iPhone to see if it has any power remaining.
Whether this is worth the money depends on your use case, just don’t buy it for wireless charging speed because that doesn’t really matter much. I’m happy with it and will use it when traveling but my older Belkin or Apple battery packs will remain daily drivers. I might look a bit at the new Belkin when they arrive later this year if they are a bit smaller.
