Are the newest iPad Pro tablets Qi ready?

No, the new iPads don't support wireless charging.

Qi wireless charging has been out with Samsung and other manufacturer phones for some time. Apple introduced Qi charging for iPhone when iPhone X was released in 2017. Apple Watches use a proprietary form of Qi charging and have since they were first introduced.

Qi is a wireless charging standard.

babowa wrote:

Hmm, I'm not up to date I guess since I hadn't heard of that (and neither did Google it seems).....

I imagine if you just searched for "Qi", you'd get a lot of unrelated hits as it also refers to a Chinese concept meaning, loosely translated, "vital energy".

"vital energy".

Yup, that's what I got..... (and some sort of game).

@ rbrylawski:

I don't do Samsung, so wouldn't be tuned in to anything of theirs (our TV is my first and last Samsung purchase - ever. It was a nightmare); my iPhone is a used SE which my partner insisted on giving to me (and I prefer using my flip phone) and my watch is a regular old fashioned one, so I am woefully out of date with gadgets and their specs, LOL.

Thanks to both of you, I now know what the wireless charging standard is!

The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) was established in 2008, and in 2010 they established the Qi standard. In 2012, the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power Matter Alliance (PMA) were founded.

Guess I have been just totally clueless and uninformed about the origins about wireless charging technologies and standards all of these years.

I thought the whole device wireless charging and the data/device pairing/transferring “thing” between devices had only been around for less than 5 years, or so.

Had no clue about this Qi wireless charging technology and standard, at all! None. Zip. Zilch. Nada!

Maybe back in 2008, it was something I might have seen or read about in a Wired magazine article ( learned about Bluetooth technology that way, back then ), but really didn't understand this wireless charging technology and standards that were coming, had no real interest in the technical aspects of wireless charging technology and was of no interest to me then.

So I never gave this technology any more thought, after that!

I've only come to know about wireless charging in the most recent years with the newer iPhones and Samsung phones.

Heck, I didn't even know how “Qi” was pronounced until I watched a presentation about this wireless charging technology technology and standard on very recent episodes of iOS Today and Mac Break Weekly on the online TWiT TV technology web channel and on YouTube.

Two questions:

what is Qi?

And what is: Lkjbcdgjkvse)

babowa wrote:

what is Qi?

It's a wireless charging standard

And what is: Lkjbcdgjkvse)

I got nothin'.

Hmm, I'm not up to date I guess since I hadn't heard of that (and neither did Google it seems).....

Qi is pronounced “chee”.

That IS the name used for the new wireless charging standard as in Qi ( chee ) wireless charging.

MichelPM wrote:

That IS the name used for the new wireless charging standard as in Qi ( chee ) wireless charging.

Well, if by "new" you mean 11 years old.... ;-)

Wireless charging technology has been around since 2008?

That's definitely news to me!

It's been common enough for at least three or four years. Other phone manufacturers were offering it several years before Apple. And, even before Apple offered it, there were cases that made it possible. I've been using wireless charging cases on my iPhone since the iPhone 6. As I still only have an iPhone 7+, I continue to use a case. I'm not sure I see the value (for me) of wireless charging for iPads. For stability, the charging pad would have to be rather large. But, for phones, it's fantastic. I have charging stands that hold the phone at an easy viewing angle.

For a while, Starbucks was talking about building charging pads into the tables in all of their shops. Sadly, nothing came of that.