The Apple Battery Pack therefore looks a bit puny in power capacity – especially in light of the Anker MagGo 622’s 5,000mAh capacity. But milliamp hours don’t tell the whole story.

But while Apple re-released the AirPods Pro with USB-C, it didn’t do so for the Battery Pack. All may not be lost, however, as Gruber explains.

Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack came out nine months after the iPhone 12. If you compare the schedule with Apple's latest release, you'll notice that it's been more than that time period already ...

And let us not forget Apple’s previous foray into iPhone battery packs, the Smart Battery Case. This one was last released for the iPhone 11 and hasn’t been revived since then.

But the capacity of the MagSafe Battery Pack itself is fairly small at 1,460mAh (or 11.13Wh), so it can only charge a standard iPhone 14 to about 60-65 percent from zero.

A fully charged pack is said to offer about two hours of use, and Gurman speculates that Apple may try to upsell users to buy multiple battery packs for longer sessions.

Apple has been working for at least a year on a MagSafe accessory that should be popular among iPhone 12 owners: An external battery pack. Apple has launched iPhone battery cases for older iPhone ...

The Newton battery pack uses four cells, so replacing them with modern rechargeable AA batteries should be pretty straightforward, provided they can be accessed. This isn’t as easy, though.