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We asked, you told us: You hate the idea of Apple dropping the in-box charger
June 29, 2025
Apple’sflagship iPhonesare certainly not cheap and not everyone can afford to buy additional accessories for them. A few days back, a respected Apple analystsaidthat theiPhone 12series will not include a charging adapter in the box. Instead, Apple is apparently going to force its customers to buy a new 20W charger separately.
This is something extremely out of character, even for Apple. In-box accessories for iPhones have always meant getting a pair of EarPods, a charging adapter, and a charging cable at the very least. In fact, the iPhone 11 Pro and11 Pro Maxwere the first set of Apple phones to ship with an 18W USB-C charger. Everyone was happy that Apple finally upgraded the age-old wall plug and the charging cable for the new iPhones. Now, news of this apparent sudden U-turn has come as quite a shock to the Apple community.
So keeping all this in mind, we polled you, our readers, to askone simple question: How do you feel about Apple doing away with the in-box charger for the iPhone 12? Here’s what you had to say.
How would you feel about Apple dropping the charger?
We got a total of 3,115 responses and the results were unanimous. A resounding 77.2% of you resent Apple’s move to drop the in-box charger for the iPhone 12. Meanwhile, almost 8% of you are okay with it and over 14% of you don’t care either way.
This is not at all surprising. Something as basic as a charging adapter is the least Apple could add with a $1,000 phone. Then again, this is all still based on an analyst’s speculation, and for all we know, Apple won’t go ahead with this approach.
Here’s what you had to say
You had a lot of insightful things to say about why you feel the way you do about Apple’s possible decision. Let’s delve into some of those comments to try and gauge the sentiment around the topic.
It’s clear from the comments above that most of you are very keen on Apple retaining the wall plug in the box of future iPhones because you don’t want to spend extra. Some of you also make compelling arguments that first-time Apple users or those converting from Android won’t have extra iPhone chargers lying around.
Apple does plan to put a charging cable in the box though. However, we don’t know if it’s a USB-C to Lightning cable, like in the case of the iPhone 11 Pro, or if it’s the legacy USB-A to Lightning cable. It matters because lots of iPhone users have USB-A adapters lying around but not many have USB-C iPhone power plugs to spare. Let’s now wait and see what Apple ends up doing.
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