iPad Pro Magic Keyboard USB-C Passthrough Charging Speed up to 22W

The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro features a USB-C passthrough port and it allows you to charge the tablet at a fairly respectable 22 watts.

Apple's Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Offers Magical 22W Charging Speed While Using the USB-C Passthrough Port

Announced alongside the 2020 iPad Pro, the new Magic Keyboard is an accessory that brings Apple'due south tablet closer to a existent figurer, although information technology notwithstanding has a long way to go. The Magic Keyboard has scissor switches for an infrequent typing experience, a trackpad to take reward of Apple'southward newly added mouse features to iPadOS, and a passthrough USB-C port for charging.

In case you are wondering how fast that passthrough USB-C port is on the new Magic Keyboard, then you will be delighted to larn that information technology offers speeds of up to 22W, thanks to info shared on Twitter past TheVerge's Dieter Bohn:

Completely forgot I had this little dongle! Anyway charging pass through on the Magic Keyboard is quite good. https://t.co/HlGZfHHrrd movie.twitter.com/LyxrkM4EJ9

— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) April xx, 2020

In comparison, your 2018 and in a higher place iPad Pro can draw power of upward to 30W when needed. In fact, in order to accept total reward of that passthrough USB-C port, Apple's ain 18W USB-C charger won't cut the mustard. Something that can supply power upward to 30W will do just fine.

While the '22W' figure might audio interesting, proceed in mind that this volition vary depending on the amount of charge your iPad Pro is currently holding. As you cross that eighty% charging mark, wait charging speed to driblet down dramatically. If you lot are charging a completely tuckered iPad Pro then there is a possibility that the passthrough port allows speeds of up to 25W or more. But once more, that remains to be tested, and something which we volition go along an eye on.

Personally, I am a fan of the Magic Keyboard but it's not something that I need at this point. I don't even use a mouse with the iPad Pro. If I have to go through that problem, I rather use my MacBook Pro instead. Only still, the accessory volition definitely send you down the rabbit hole whether or not y'all want to first using your iPad Pro similar a traditional computer and less similar a meme machine.