Welcome to 995 Mac Daily for Thursday, July 24th, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Bitwarden.

Leading off today, we talked last week about the certification for the next-gen

wireless chargers, and now that latest standard has officially been launched.

It's branded as Chi 2 25 watts, the straightforward name being meant to help us ensure that we're

buying the latest and greatest and most powerful models.

The backstory here is that early wireless phone chargers were based on the original Chi standard

overseen by the industry trade group Wireless Power Consortium.

This was an important development, meaning you could buy any Chi certified charger and know it would

work with almost any phone on the market, including iPhones.

However, it maxed out at 7.5 watts, so it wasn't particularly fast.

The Chi-2 standard was a major improvement, not least because Apple contributed to it by open-sourcing

its MagSafe magnetic attachment system.

Chi 2 chargers also doubled the power output to 15 watts.

That brings us to where we are today with the official launch of Chi 2 at 25 watts.

It's the latest update to the Chi standard, further boosting charging speeds to an impressive 25 watts. The Wireless Power Consortium originally referred to the latest standard as Chi 2.2,

but it's decided that it's clearer to include the power rating in the name, hence the official

Chitu 25 watts branding.

The industry group says that faster speed was the number one request from wireless charger users

and that there will be plenty of choice for consumers.

But as we've talked about before, there is at least a possibility that Apple may go even

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