Of 33 current smartphones tested, the iPhone 17 Pro offered the fastest overall charging speed, when wired and wireless charging times are averaged.
Apple also took four out of the five top places when it came to wireless charging speeds specifically, with manufacturing precision the likely reason …
CNET says that it tested 33 current smartphones for both wired and wireless charging performance.
We tested 33 phones over the past year, from companies like Apple, Samsung, Google and Motorola. We also tested phones available only internationally to compare with what’s in the US.
The iPhone 17 Pro was crowned the overall winner.
We ranked all the phones tested to determine which was the fastest-charging overall. To do this, we averaged each phone’s wired and wireless charging test results into a single score. We found that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro is the fastest overall charging phone we have tested in the past year.
Tests focused on real-world usage in the situation that matters most: taking a phone with a maximum of 10% remaining battery and seeing how much charge it would gain in a 30-minute top-up.
Apple took second place when it came to wired charging.
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra earned a CNET Labs Award for fastest wired charging. In 30 minutes, it added 76%. Rounding out the top wired charging results are the iPhone 17 Pro with 74%, Motorola’s Moto G Stylus (2025) with 74%, the OnePlus 15 with 72% and at 69% are the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S25 FE.
And first place for wireless charging. In fact, four of the five top-ranked phones here were iPhones.
Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro earned a CNET Labs Award for fastest wireless charging, adding 55% in our 30-minute wireless charging test […] Other phones that scored in our top five for wireless charging are the iPhone 17 Pro Max with 53%, the iPhone 17 with 49%, the iPhone Air with 47% and the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra with 39%.
The site speculates that MagSafe likely keeps the phones perfectly aligned with the charging coils, retaining a precision advantage even though the company allow competitors to use the same technology branded as Qi2.2.
To get the optimum charging performance, you’ll need a 30W+ power adapter and a MagSafe charger with fast-charging capability.
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