The next iPhone may not have reverse wireless charging for your AirPods after all

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With less than 24 hours remaining until Apple reveals the iPhone 11 — or whatever they might be named — two of the most trusted sources of Apple rumors are backing away from their predictions that the new iPhones will include reverse wireless charging that would let the Apple phone top up AirPods in a wireless charging case.

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo isn’t saying quite yet that the feature has been definitively axed — but that it may have been ditched because the “charging efficiency may not meet Apple’s requirements,” according to 9to5Mac. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman soon corroborated Kuo’s position saying he’d heard the same thing: “sounds like backside charging is out.”

If so, it wouldn’t be the first time in recent memory that Apple’s...

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