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It wastes less electricity than normal Qi wireless charging because it can line up the coils more perfectly.

It also opens up a whole ecosystem of MagSafe accessories like wallets, car mounts, tripods, etc.

I’d also guess that MagSafe won’t wear out the phone socket as quickly, as one isn’t wearing down the socket with the friction of inserting cables. I’ve had to replace at least a couple phones from the socket being too “jiggly” to trust that the charging cable would retain contact. Nothing sucks more than waking up to a phone at 5% charge on a day when you need your phone.

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