Paul Morris on March 23, 2020, 9:45 pm

Apple Still Working On AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Internally [Rumor]

A prominent YouTuber and successful leaker of tech-based information is claiming that Apple’s AirPower project is alive and well.

Jon Prosser has claimed that Apple has resurrected the AirPower project internally but also concedes that there is no guarantee that the product will make it into the public domain.

You may remember that it was approximately twelve months ago that Apple silently killed the AirPower project after initially announcing the project at one of its public-facing media events. During that event, Apple raised hopes by announcing a product that was essentially a charging mat capable of charging multiple devices wireless, such as iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch, all at the same time.

Those devices could be placed on the charging mat and charging would begin. The AirPower mat would also report battery percentages directly back to a connected iPhone so the owner would know the status of each. For obvious reasons, this would have been an extremely popular product.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has previously stated that Apple is working on a smaller charging mat, but Prosser has now taken to Twitter to suggest that AirPower “isn’t dead”:

Apple didn’t specifically go into a huge amount of detail about why the AirPower project was initially shelved but many have deduced that it was down to the fruit company not being able to get the efficiency that it requires to put a name to a product. Prosser stating that the company is now trying to “re-engineer the coils” would seem to corroborate that belief. Now, with the project seemingly back underway internally with Apple’s engineers attempting to tackle the problem, the question seems to be whether or not the AirPower will actually see the light of day this time around?

At the time of writing, there isn’t a product on the market that seems to fill the void that was left by the AirPower product-that-never-was, so it seems that Apple could still have a huge interest.