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iphone ipad inter-charge

I've gotten one iphone 3G, two iphone 4GS and two IPADs. I just wanna know whether the IPAD chargers can charge the iphone or vice versa.

I have gotten unverified tips that iphone4/4gs/ipad are interchargable. Here they are:

If you want to charge IPAD with iphone 4S wall charger, it will take more longer and the charge will happend only in sleep mode.

If you want to charge IPHONE 4/4S with IPAD wall charger, the charger will detect it is iphone and change the output to 5V/1A from original 5.1V/2.1A. However there is no protection for IPhone 3G/3GS and the ipad charger could damage those iohones.

The iphone chargers can be shared among different genenrations.

Anyguys have more tips.

Posted on May 16, 2012 2:21 AM

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Posted on May 16, 2012 2:26 AM

Steve Qu wrote:


... I just wanna know whether the IPAD chargers can charge the iphone or vice versa.

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You can Use the iPad Charger with the iPhone and iPod... But not the Other way...


iPhone, iPod, Using the iPad Charger


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4327

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Jun 4, 2012 12:26 PM in response to Steve Qu

You can use both interchangeably:



http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4327


The above article says that you can use the iPad charger to charge iPhone and iPod

The iPad USB Power Adapter is a 10W charger. While designed for use with the iPad, you can use the iPad 10W USB Power Adapter to charge all iPhone and iPod models by connecting them using a Dock Connector to USB cable.



http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4060


The above article says that you can use the iPhone charger to charge the iPad

The fastest way to charge your iPad is with the included 10W USB Power Adapter. iPad will also charge, although more slowly, when attached to a computer with a high-power USB port (many recent Mac computers) or with an iPhone Power Adapter

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