See this white brick? It places out a measly 30W of energy to a single machine, but Apple fees $50 for it. Please don’t purchase one as a result of we now have agency proof that Apple is about to switch it with one thing a lot, significantly better — a 35W charger with two ports, probably powered by gallium nitride (GaN) expertise which may additionally make it smaller.

That’s the word from 9to5Mac, which received this specific scrap of knowledge from by far essentially the most dependable supply of Apple leaks: Apple’s personal web site. Apparently, the corporate by accident threw a help doc dwell for an “Apple 35W Dual USB-C Port Power Adapter,” and 9to5 managed to snap a screenshot earlier than it was pulled.

Screenshot by 9to5Mac

This is probably going the “about 30W” GaN charger that analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted about final month, which he stated would have “a new form factor design” and arrive in 2022.

You might quick cost an iPhone 13 Pro Max and an Apple Watch on the similar time with that stage of energy, or an M1 MacBook Air and a watch, or an iPad and an Apple Watch, or a pair of iPhones, or an iPad Pro and an iPhone at a slower fee, or… it’s USB-C, so there are a whole lot of prospects.

It wouldn’t be Apple’s first GaN charger — that might be the 140W energy adapter it shipped with the brand new 16-inch MacBook Pro. But except I’m mistaken, it will be the primary dual-port charger Apple has ever made and definitely the primary with USB-C.

In truth, there’s a dual-USB-C-shaped gap seemingly ready for it within the Apple Store. Apple carries Belkin chargers that have a single USB-C port and a 32W charger with both USB-C and USB-A ports, however not Belkin’s dual-USB-C charger — and that’s Apple’s premier equipment companion we’re speaking about. You can clearly discover fairly just a few dual-port USB-C chargers outdoors of the Apple Store, although, together with many with increased speeds.

Note that this machine would supply 35W complete, not 35W per port. 9to5Mac says the help doc states every port can function in one of many following 4 modes: both 5VDC/3A, 9VDC/3A, 15VDC/2.33A, or 20VDC/1.75A. That ought to simply permit two gadgets to cost at 15W or one at 27W and one at 5W, however we’ll need to see which mixtures of gadgets may work.

The help doc doesn’t recommend when the charger may arrive however does say {that a} USB-C cable is not going to be included.