New AirPower leak shows Apple’s charging mat working as intended

[Jacob Siegal]

• Apple is reportedly still working on its AirPower wireless charging mat, and a new leak gives us a glimpse of the mat charging an Apple Watch and an AirPods case simultaneously.
• Apple's undead AirPower appears to have a similar design, but with a USB-C charging port.
• Previous leaks have claimed the AirPower could launch as early as the fourth quarter of 2020.

Not every new product can be as successful as the iPhone, but the AirPower never even got off the ground.

Apple announced the AirPower wireless charging mat in September 2017 at a media event alongside the iPhone X and the iPhone 8, with a planned launch in early 2018. But 2018 came and went without any sign of the charger, and rumors began to spread that Apple was running into engineering issues. AirPower branding actually appeared on the packaging of the iPhone XS and the AirPods Wireless Charging Case, but in March of 2019, Apple confirmed that it had finally canceled the project because it was unable to achieve the company's "high standards."

It seemed like that might be the last we'd ever hear about AirPower, but in March, prolific Apple leaker Jon Prosser said "AirPower isn't dead," claiming that work on the project had restarted internally. He couldn't guarantee that the revitalized AirPower would ever see the light of day, but Apple had at least begun prototyping again. And now, three months later, Prosser has returned a potential early look at the device.

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