iPhone 17 Pro has the fastest charging speed among 33 phones tested

Of the 33 smartphones currently tested, the iPhone 17 Pro offered the fastest overall charging speed, when averaging wired and wireless charging times.

Apple also took four of the top five spots when it came to wireless charging speeds specifically, with manufacturing precision likely being the reason…

CNET said to have tested 33 current smartphones for wired and wireless charging performance.

We’ve tested 33 phones over the past year, from companies like Apple, Samsung, Google and Motorola. We also tested phones available only internationally to compare them to those in the United States.

The iPhone 17 Pro was crowned the overall winner.

We ranked all the phones we tested to see which was the fastest to charge overall. To do this, we averaged each phone’s wired and wireless charging test results into a single score. We found that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro is the fastest overall charging phone we’ve tested over the last year.

Testing focused on real-world use in the most important situation: taking a phone with up to 10% battery remaining and seeing how much charge it would gain in 30 minutes of charging.

Apple took second place in wired charging.

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra won a CNET Labs Award for fastest wired charging. In 30 minutes, he added 76%. The best wired charging results are rounded out by the iPhone 17 Pro with 74%, Motorola’s Moto G Stylus (2025) with 74%, the OnePlus 15 with 72% and at 69% are the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S25 FE.

And first place for wireless charging. In fact, four of the five highest-ranking phones here were iPhones.

Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro won a CNET Labs Award for fastest wireless charging, adding 55% to our 30-minute wireless charging test (…) Other phones that ranked in our top five for wireless charging were the iPhone 17 Pro Max with 53%, the iPhone 17 with 49%, the iPhone Air with 47% and the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra with 39%.

The site speculates that MagSafe likely keeps phones perfectly aligned with the charging coils, maintaining an advantage in accuracy even as the company allows competitors to use the same technology under the Qi2.2 brand.

For optimal charging performance, you will need a 30W+ power adapter and a MagSafe charger with fast charging capability.