Can you blow up your iPhone x/8 by placing it on a wireless charger pad while it's charging with a cable?
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It hadn't occurred to me until I was asked the other day what would happen if you put an iPhone X/iPhone 8 that's charging using a cable down on a wireless charging pad. Will it blow up, or will it just charge normally?
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The reality is more complicated than that.
OK, so what happens when you try to charge an iPhone using both the cable and wireless charging pad?
But what happens if you charge an iPhone using a cable that's already on a charging pad? I would have expected the iPhone to do what it did above and switch to taking its power from the cable, since this is the most efficient way, but what seems to happen is that it ignores the cable completely and continues to draw a charge from the charging pad. While this is an unlikely accidental scenario (it's quite hard to plug the cord in while keeping the iPhone on the charging pad), it is worth bearing in mind in case you ever do it and wonder why your iPhone is charging slowly.
Note that the above applies whether charging using regular USB-A or with USB-C fast charging.
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