MagSafe Battery Pack review - is it really worth it
**Maxsafe Battery Pack Review: A Game-Changer for iPhone Users**
The Maxsafe battery pack is a game-changer for iPhone users who want to extend their device's battery life without carrying around an extra charger. With its sleek design and advanced features, it's no wonder why this device has gained popularity among tech enthusiasts.
**Fast Charging and Wireless Charging Capability**
One of the standout features of the Maxsafe battery pack is its ability to fast charge devices. When using a third-party device, the Maxsafe battery pack can output via the USB-C port, making it possible to charge other USB Type-C devices like PS5 Dual Sense controllers. Additionally, when paired with an iPhone, the Maxsafe battery pack enables true wireless charging capabilities, allowing users to replenish their iPhone's battery from 0% to 83%.
**Smart Features and Integration**
The Maxsafe battery pack is also equipped with smart features that make it a joy to use. With automatic connectivity, users don't need to worry about turning on or off the device, as it seamlessly connects to their iPhone or other compatible devices. The Maxsafe battery pack also boasts iOS integration, making it easy to track battery usage and monitor device performance.
**Comparison with Competing Devices**
So, how does the Maxsafe battery pack compare to its competitors? The Mofi and Anchor devices are popular alternatives that offer similar features at a lower price point. However, while they may be more affordable, they lack the advanced smarts of the Maxsafe battery pack, which makes it the clear winner for iPhone users who value convenience and integration.
**The Max8 Battery Pack: A Worthwhile Investment**
While the Max8 battery pack is significantly more expensive than its competitors, at around $100, some may find it worth the investment. The device boasts faster charging capabilities and more capacity than other third-party batteries on the market. For iPhone users who value speed and convenience above all else, the Max8 battery pack is an attractive option.
**The Verdict: Which Device is Right for You?**
Ultimately, the decision comes down to personal preference and priorities. iPhone users who want a hassle-free experience with seamless integration and smart features will likely choose the Maxsafe battery pack. Those on a tighter budget may opt for the Mofi or Anchor devices, which offer similar features at a lower price point.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enis the max8 battery pack a bad buy when compared to the competition I discussed this in my long-term review but first a word from our sponsor 95 Mac is sponsored by airbuddy 2 a must-have utility for airpods users the original version was great but airbuddy 2 comes with tons of new Incredible features it extends Mac OS to improve your airpods experience and it's fully compatible with Bix sir and apple silicon just open your charging case next to your Mac to see a beautiful UI with info on batteries connection and status with airbuddy 2 you can connect connect and change listening modes at the same time with a single trackpad gesture automate system volume audio input and listening mode so you're ready to go into a video call with just a single click and you can enjoy custom Global keyboard shortcuts that allow you to quickly connect to disconnect from or change listening modes on your devices and get this version 2.4 comes with a brand new battery alerts feature go to airbuddy doapp nto5 ma to learn more the first 1095 Mac viewers to use that URL would get air buddy with the 20% discount and stay tuned to the end of this video to learn about even more things that airbuddy 2 can do for you so I've had the max safe battery pack for several weeks now and these are my final thoughts I don't think there's a cut and dry answer as to whether you should purchase this $99 battery pack or not it's really going to depend on the phone you use whether or not you really care about iOS integration and whether you want a battery pack that is super welld designed and just works that being said the max8 battery pack is not the best battery pack if you want the fastest and most thorough charge we're going to talk about that in a little bit because there are two competitors that I can think of right off the top of my head that give this device a run for its money and we're going to talk about an offering from anchor and an offering from Mofi and compare those two Chargers with the mag safe battery pack so here it is it's a very simple design you get sort of a soft touch hard exterior in a device that is about a/ an inch thick so it's actually a little bit thicker than any of the iPhone 12 models available now on the bottom of the device you have a lightning connection and an LED indicator that tells you battery status so it's a very simple device but very welld designed and I appreciate that they used a a hard matte plastic on the exterior instead of something like Silicon which would attract dust and would be difficult to place in your pocket or remove it from your pocket without disconnecting it from your iPhone now I also appreciated the rounded Corners not only does it make it comfortable to hold in the hand but you'll notice that the corner radius matches the iPhone 12 mini to a te and of course that isn't the iPhone 12 mini but I just thought it was interesting to compare the original iPhone to the design of the max8 battery pack but we're going to talk about some of the competition in this video in uh talk about some of the advantages that the competition has over the max eight battery pack and some of the advantages that the max8 battery pack has over the competition so like I said the max8 battery pack has two primary competitors that being the $55 anchor power core magnetic 5K which is a mouthful right but it is probably the closest that you'll get to the max8 battery pack in terms of size and form factor and of course there are quite a few differences the main one being that this isn't a Max safe compatible battery pack per se uh although it does work it is magnetic and it will attach to the back of your iPhone 12 you can see how it compares to the max8 battery pack very similar except it's a little bit thicker now here is the Mofi snap plus juice pack mini and as you can see it's about the same thickness as the max safe battery pack but it is taller and it is slightly wider as well not by much but just slightly and you can see just like the anchor it has the power button the USBC connection and the four LED indicators to tell you your battery life but as you can see it's noticeably taller it's also noticably cheaper and can be had for less than 50 bucks but there's more to consider here how about the magnetic connection so the best magnetic connection is unsurprisingly the max8 battery pack it has the most stable connection although it still can disconnect accidentally if you're not careful but compared to the Anchor it's no question a much more solid connection the anchor it really just doesn't have a great magnetic connection at all uh so you kind of have to be careful with how you hold your iPhone now the Mofi is definitely a lot better than the anchor and that may have something to do with the form factor but it's still not quite as good as the max safe connection on the Mac safe back battery pack now like I was saying earlier the corner radius and the size of the max8 battery pack makes me think that this thing was designed with the iPhone 12 minium Mine It just fits it like a glove it fits it perfectly it looks like it was designed with the iPhone 12 mini in mind but it also fits the other iPhone 12 models as well now here is the anchor and as you can see it fits the iPhone 12 mini although it's thicker and it doesn't rest flat against the iPhone now here is the Mofi and as you can see it actually extends beyond the bottom of the iPhone 12 mini so that's not a great fit it's actually wider as well and look it blocks the camera as well skip the Mofi if you have an iPhone 12 mini so here is the Baseline iPhone 12 with the Mac safe with the anchor and with the Mofi they all fit really well here's the iPhone 12 Pro Max with the Mac safe anchor and Mofi one of the biggest advantages enjoyed by the max safe battery pack is its iOS integration so when you connect you're going to find a MAC safe popup on your lock screen telling you the battery status of both your iPhone and the Mac safe battery pack you can also add widgets to your home screen or to the today view so you can see the status widget for batteries so I'm going to add that widget directly to my home screen and now look I have status for the Mac safe battery pack it's at 10% right now so I should probably charge but again you can also add to your today view so I can just drag over here and now I have this battery widget the large battery widget right there on the Today view so that gives me my battery status as well now iOS integration is really important because as you can see there's only one LED indicator and it only really tells you whether or not the battery is fully charged so you can see if it's Amber it means the battery isn't fully charged and if it's green the battery is fully charged and the only way you can see these indicators is if you either connect or disconnect from a power source or you wirelessly charge with your iPhone 12 or other Chi enabled device in other words there are no hardware buttons to interface with to tell your battery status there are no buttons at all actually on the max8 battery pack because it just works whereas on the anchor and on the Mofi you have a button power button to turn on the device or turn it off and you also have four LED indicators to give you incremental battery status so you can see I connected the anchor power core magnetic 5K to my iPhone 12 and it's not charging because why well it's because I haven't turned the device on yet uh same thing goes for the the memi as well I haven't powered the device on so it's not going to charge so let's hit the power button and you'll notice it turns on but it's devoid of any sort of iOS integration so that's the nice thing about the max8 battery pack you connect it it starts charging there are no buttons to interface with and you get ios integration now let's talk about performance because this is where the anchor and the Mofi really separate themselves from the max8 battery pack now before we begin Apple recommends that you fully charge the max8 battery pack when you first purchase it and you're going to need to provide at least a 20 W power adapter and a lightning to USBC cable to do that you can also use this little guy which is from anchor and it has really no relation to this video but I just love having that extra long braided lightning the USBC cable details Down Below in the description all right so how does the max8 battery pack actually perform well I've done so many tests with the max 8 battery pack with my iPhone 12 mini iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Max so here are the final numbers with a dead iPhone starting from 0% charging it all the way up until the max8 battery pack was exhausted so you can see the iPhone 12 mini gets 83% charge from zero with the full max8 battery pack the iPhone 12 just 63% and the iPhone 12 Pro Max 55% so not horrible right but certainly not a full charge well with the anchor and with the Mofi things are quite a bit better there's more capacity with these two devices and they work a little bit faster than the max safe battery pack so how do these things stack up well here are the original performance numbers that I just showed you now let's bring in the Mofi and the anchor for the iPhone 12 so we're just comparing the iPhone 12 and you can see from 0% I was able to gain 98% and 100% respectively for the Mofi and anchor battery packs when compared to just 63% for the max safe battery pack so if you just care about capacity and getting the most charge out of your battery pack then hands down the anchor or the Mofi is the one you want to go for now how long does it actually take to charge up to the 63% that you got from a full Max a battery pack for the iPhone 12 when compared to the Mofi and the anchor well the iPhone 12 took 124 minutes or about 2 hours to charge up to 63% before the max a battery pack was exhausted whereas the Mofi and the anchor did 103 minutes or just 99 minutes respectively so not only does the mphi and the anchor give you more battery capacity but it charges your iPhone faster than the max sa battery pack now let's talk about some other characteristics of the max8 battery pack if you connect the lightning to USB cable you can put the max8 battery pack into wired mode for faster charging up to 15 watts and this will charge both the max8 battery pack and the iPhone now if you start with a dead Mac safe battery pack and a dead iPhone it'll charge both simultaneously but once it gets up to about 80% it'll focus on recharging your iPhone to 100% and then it will charge the max 8 battery pack the last 20% or so so just like Apple's smart battery case the max 8 battery pack is a smart charging apparatus now one notable feature of the max8 battery pack is that it supports reverse wireless charging so you can plug the lightning cable into your iPhone and it'll charge the iPhone but also charge your max8 battery pack through the iPhone's wireless connection on the rear this is handy when using wired carplay play or when sinking with your Mac the downside is that not only is charging the Mac safe battery very slow using this method but charging actually won't kick in until your iPhone reaches about 80% but one thing it doesn't have under its belt like the competition is the ability to Output charge via a wired connection so the advantage of the anchor and the Mofi is that it has a USB type cport not only is that used to facilitate charging the battery pack itself but it can also output charged to any USB type-c device but the downside of the Mofi and the anchor battery packs is that they aren't exactly Smart in the sense that they won't automatically detect a device and power own automatically like the max safe battery pack you actually have to turn the power button on in order to facilitate charging there's also unsurprisingly no reverse wireless charging when using third-party devices but being able to Output via the USBC Port is a big win for the most in the anchor so I have my USB type-c the lightning cable and I can charge my iPhone wired directly to the m or the anchor and it's much faster than charging wirelessly you can't do that on the max8 battery pack but it's not just about charging your iPhone with these third- party batteries you can charge any USB type-c device yeah so I can connect it to my PS5 dual sense controller if I want to that's the nice thing about the inchor and the Mofi that added flexibility now all the devices can serve as Chi Chargers true Wireless Chi Chargers using the built-in battery or a wired Chi charger when plugged in this means that all the devices can recharge any Chi enabled smartphone like the iPhone SC second generation but remember you'll need to power on your battery pack if you're using one of the third party options it's a really nice thing about Max safe have an automatic connectivity so there's a whole lot to unpack here the max safe battery pack is is much more expensive than a competition at about a 100 bucks that's more than double the price of the Mofi and almost double of the anchor which have more capacity slightly faster charging and that USBC output but if you care about things like true max safe connectivity with iOS integration then the obvious choice for you is the max safe battery pack personally speaking I was really hard on the max S battery pack when it first came out uh but after using it for several weeks it's really grown on me I especially like how it looks when paired with the official Max safe silicon case which I have right here I think it looks great with this case right here what do you guys think and although the max8 battery pack cost significantly more and it's not as fast and it doesn't have as much capacity I love the integration I love the smarts how it just works there's no buttons to interface with there's nothing to turn on or turn off and I especially love love how it fits the iPhone 12 mini like a glove truthfully I think this device was designed with the iPhone 12 mini in mind and that kind of makes sense given the fact that the iPhone 12 mini has suspect battery life so with the max safe battery pack you're able to replenish 83% of the iPhone 12 Mini's battery from 0% that's pretty good for a device that is fairly Compact and fits the iPhone 12 mini like it was built for it but the Maxa battery pack is significantly less less compelling for the iPhone 12 and especially the iPhone 12 Pro Max which has good enough battery life on its own if I needed a battery for one of those devices I'd be more apt to purchase the Mofi uh or the anchor which you can get for about $55 that surely beats the $99 asking price for the max8 battery pack and not only do you get more capacity that's going to be able to fill your iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Pro Max closer to 100% you also get the flexibility of USB type-c but to be honest there are going to be some people that just want that iOS integration just want the smarts of the max safe battery pack which you don't get with those competing third party devices and for those people that's totally understandable and honestly just the convenience of the max8 battery pack makes me want to be irrational and just go ahead and pay the 100 bucks what do you guys think which one would you choose let me let me know Down Below in the comment section thumbs up if you appreciated this video and hit that subscribe button for more videos like this this is Jeff with 9 to-5 Mac 9o5 Mac is sponsored by airbuddy 2 a musthave utility for airpods users as we discussed air bu 2 is the perfect companion for airpods it also extends Mac OS with a batteries witchet and menu bar icon that shows all your devices intelligently grouped and smart stats give you battery usage over time total listening time call time and shows you which airpod is draining his battery more quickly but airbuddy goes beyond headphones it can show battery information for your iOS devices accessories like the magic keyboard and Magic Mouse and even other Mac's running airbuddy including their accessories and with a magic handoff you can transfer a Magic Mouse trackpad or keyboard between two Macs running airbuddy with just a few clicks go to airbuddy do/ nto5 Mac to learn more the first 100 100 nto5 Mac viewers to use that URL would get airb with a 20% discount special thanks to airbuddy 2 for sponsoring 9 to5 Macis the max8 battery pack a bad buy when compared to the competition I discussed this in my long-term review but first a word from our sponsor 95 Mac is sponsored by airbuddy 2 a must-have utility for airpods users the original version was great but airbuddy 2 comes with tons of new Incredible features it extends Mac OS to improve your airpods experience and it's fully compatible with Bix sir and apple silicon just open your charging case next to your Mac to see a beautiful UI with info on batteries connection and status with airbuddy 2 you can connect connect and change listening modes at the same time with a single trackpad gesture automate system volume audio input and listening mode so you're ready to go into a video call with just a single click and you can enjoy custom Global keyboard shortcuts that allow you to quickly connect to disconnect from or change listening modes on your devices and get this version 2.4 comes with a brand new battery alerts feature go to airbuddy doapp nto5 ma to learn more the first 1095 Mac viewers to use that URL would get air buddy with the 20% discount and stay tuned to the end of this video to learn about even more things that airbuddy 2 can do for you so I've had the max safe battery pack for several weeks now and these are my final thoughts I don't think there's a cut and dry answer as to whether you should purchase this $99 battery pack or not it's really going to depend on the phone you use whether or not you really care about iOS integration and whether you want a battery pack that is super welld designed and just works that being said the max8 battery pack is not the best battery pack if you want the fastest and most thorough charge we're going to talk about that in a little bit because there are two competitors that I can think of right off the top of my head that give this device a run for its money and we're going to talk about an offering from anchor and an offering from Mofi and compare those two Chargers with the mag safe battery pack so here it is it's a very simple design you get sort of a soft touch hard exterior in a device that is about a/ an inch thick so it's actually a little bit thicker than any of the iPhone 12 models available now on the bottom of the device you have a lightning connection and an LED indicator that tells you battery status so it's a very simple device but very welld designed and I appreciate that they used a a hard matte plastic on the exterior instead of something like Silicon which would attract dust and would be difficult to place in your pocket or remove it from your pocket without disconnecting it from your iPhone now I also appreciated the rounded Corners not only does it make it comfortable to hold in the hand but you'll notice that the corner radius matches the iPhone 12 mini to a te and of course that isn't the iPhone 12 mini but I just thought it was interesting to compare the original iPhone to the design of the max8 battery pack but we're going to talk about some of the competition in this video in uh talk about some of the advantages that the competition has over the max eight battery pack and some of the advantages that the max8 battery pack has over the competition so like I said the max8 battery pack has two primary competitors that being the $55 anchor power core magnetic 5K which is a mouthful right but it is probably the closest that you'll get to the max8 battery pack in terms of size and form factor and of course there are quite a few differences the main one being that this isn't a Max safe compatible battery pack per se uh although it does work it is magnetic and it will attach to the back of your iPhone 12 you can see how it compares to the max8 battery pack very similar except it's a little bit thicker now here is the Mofi snap plus juice pack mini and as you can see it's about the same thickness as the max safe battery pack but it is taller and it is slightly wider as well not by much but just slightly and you can see just like the anchor it has the power button the USBC connection and the four LED indicators to tell you your battery life but as you can see it's noticeably taller it's also noticably cheaper and can be had for less than 50 bucks but there's more to consider here how about the magnetic connection so the best magnetic connection is unsurprisingly the max8 battery pack it has the most stable connection although it still can disconnect accidentally if you're not careful but compared to the Anchor it's no question a much more solid connection the anchor it really just doesn't have a great magnetic connection at all uh so you kind of have to be careful with how you hold your iPhone now the Mofi is definitely a lot better than the anchor and that may have something to do with the form factor but it's still not quite as good as the max safe connection on the Mac safe back battery pack now like I was saying earlier the corner radius and the size of the max8 battery pack makes me think that this thing was designed with the iPhone 12 minium Mine It just fits it like a glove it fits it perfectly it looks like it was designed with the iPhone 12 mini in mind but it also fits the other iPhone 12 models as well now here is the anchor and as you can see it fits the iPhone 12 mini although it's thicker and it doesn't rest flat against the iPhone now here is the Mofi and as you can see it actually extends beyond the bottom of the iPhone 12 mini so that's not a great fit it's actually wider as well and look it blocks the camera as well skip the Mofi if you have an iPhone 12 mini so here is the Baseline iPhone 12 with the Mac safe with the anchor and with the Mofi they all fit really well here's the iPhone 12 Pro Max with the Mac safe anchor and Mofi one of the biggest advantages enjoyed by the max safe battery pack is its iOS integration so when you connect you're going to find a MAC safe popup on your lock screen telling you the battery status of both your iPhone and the Mac safe battery pack you can also add widgets to your home screen or to the today view so you can see the status widget for batteries so I'm going to add that widget directly to my home screen and now look I have status for the Mac safe battery pack it's at 10% right now so I should probably charge but again you can also add to your today view so I can just drag over here and now I have this battery widget the large battery widget right there on the Today view so that gives me my battery status as well now iOS integration is really important because as you can see there's only one LED indicator and it only really tells you whether or not the battery is fully charged so you can see if it's Amber it means the battery isn't fully charged and if it's green the battery is fully charged and the only way you can see these indicators is if you either connect or disconnect from a power source or you wirelessly charge with your iPhone 12 or other Chi enabled device in other words there are no hardware buttons to interface with to tell your battery status there are no buttons at all actually on the max8 battery pack because it just works whereas on the anchor and on the Mofi you have a button power button to turn on the device or turn it off and you also have four LED indicators to give you incremental battery status so you can see I connected the anchor power core magnetic 5K to my iPhone 12 and it's not charging because why well it's because I haven't turned the device on yet uh same thing goes for the the memi as well I haven't powered the device on so it's not going to charge so let's hit the power button and you'll notice it turns on but it's devoid of any sort of iOS integration so that's the nice thing about the max8 battery pack you connect it it starts charging there are no buttons to interface with and you get ios integration now let's talk about performance because this is where the anchor and the Mofi really separate themselves from the max8 battery pack now before we begin Apple recommends that you fully charge the max8 battery pack when you first purchase it and you're going to need to provide at least a 20 W power adapter and a lightning to USBC cable to do that you can also use this little guy which is from anchor and it has really no relation to this video but I just love having that extra long braided lightning the USBC cable details Down Below in the description all right so how does the max8 battery pack actually perform well I've done so many tests with the max 8 battery pack with my iPhone 12 mini iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Max so here are the final numbers with a dead iPhone starting from 0% charging it all the way up until the max8 battery pack was exhausted so you can see the iPhone 12 mini gets 83% charge from zero with the full max8 battery pack the iPhone 12 just 63% and the iPhone 12 Pro Max 55% so not horrible right but certainly not a full charge well with the anchor and with the Mofi things are quite a bit better there's more capacity with these two devices and they work a little bit faster than the max safe battery pack so how do these things stack up well here are the original performance numbers that I just showed you now let's bring in the Mofi and the anchor for the iPhone 12 so we're just comparing the iPhone 12 and you can see from 0% I was able to gain 98% and 100% respectively for the Mofi and anchor battery packs when compared to just 63% for the max safe battery pack so if you just care about capacity and getting the most charge out of your battery pack then hands down the anchor or the Mofi is the one you want to go for now how long does it actually take to charge up to the 63% that you got from a full Max a battery pack for the iPhone 12 when compared to the Mofi and the anchor well the iPhone 12 took 124 minutes or about 2 hours to charge up to 63% before the max a battery pack was exhausted whereas the Mofi and the anchor did 103 minutes or just 99 minutes respectively so not only does the mphi and the anchor give you more battery capacity but it charges your iPhone faster than the max sa battery pack now let's talk about some other characteristics of the max8 battery pack if you connect the lightning to USB cable you can put the max8 battery pack into wired mode for faster charging up to 15 watts and this will charge both the max8 battery pack and the iPhone now if you start with a dead Mac safe battery pack and a dead iPhone it'll charge both simultaneously but once it gets up to about 80% it'll focus on recharging your iPhone to 100% and then it will charge the max 8 battery pack the last 20% or so so just like Apple's smart battery case the max 8 battery pack is a smart charging apparatus now one notable feature of the max8 battery pack is that it supports reverse wireless charging so you can plug the lightning cable into your iPhone and it'll charge the iPhone but also charge your max8 battery pack through the iPhone's wireless connection on the rear this is handy when using wired carplay play or when sinking with your Mac the downside is that not only is charging the Mac safe battery very slow using this method but charging actually won't kick in until your iPhone reaches about 80% but one thing it doesn't have under its belt like the competition is the ability to Output charge via a wired connection so the advantage of the anchor and the Mofi is that it has a USB type cport not only is that used to facilitate charging the battery pack itself but it can also output charged to any USB type-c device but the downside of the Mofi and the anchor battery packs is that they aren't exactly Smart in the sense that they won't automatically detect a device and power own automatically like the max safe battery pack you actually have to turn the power button on in order to facilitate charging there's also unsurprisingly no reverse wireless charging when using third-party devices but being able to Output via the USBC Port is a big win for the most in the anchor so I have my USB type-c the lightning cable and I can charge my iPhone wired directly to the m or the anchor and it's much faster than charging wirelessly you can't do that on the max8 battery pack but it's not just about charging your iPhone with these third- party batteries you can charge any USB type-c device yeah so I can connect it to my PS5 dual sense controller if I want to that's the nice thing about the inchor and the Mofi that added flexibility now all the devices can serve as Chi Chargers true Wireless Chi Chargers using the built-in battery or a wired Chi charger when plugged in this means that all the devices can recharge any Chi enabled smartphone like the iPhone SC second generation but remember you'll need to power on your battery pack if you're using one of the third party options it's a really nice thing about Max safe have an automatic connectivity so there's a whole lot to unpack here the max safe battery pack is is much more expensive than a competition at about a 100 bucks that's more than double the price of the Mofi and almost double of the anchor which have more capacity slightly faster charging and that USBC output but if you care about things like true max safe connectivity with iOS integration then the obvious choice for you is the max safe battery pack personally speaking I was really hard on the max S battery pack when it first came out uh but after using it for several weeks it's really grown on me I especially like how it looks when paired with the official Max safe silicon case which I have right here I think it looks great with this case right here what do you guys think and although the max8 battery pack cost significantly more and it's not as fast and it doesn't have as much capacity I love the integration I love the smarts how it just works there's no buttons to interface with there's nothing to turn on or turn off and I especially love love how it fits the iPhone 12 mini like a glove truthfully I think this device was designed with the iPhone 12 mini in mind and that kind of makes sense given the fact that the iPhone 12 mini has suspect battery life so with the max safe battery pack you're able to replenish 83% of the iPhone 12 Mini's battery from 0% that's pretty good for a device that is fairly Compact and fits the iPhone 12 mini like it was built for it but the Maxa battery pack is significantly less less compelling for the iPhone 12 and especially the iPhone 12 Pro Max which has good enough battery life on its own if I needed a battery for one of those devices I'd be more apt to purchase the Mofi uh or the anchor which you can get for about $55 that surely beats the $99 asking price for the max8 battery pack and not only do you get more capacity that's going to be able to fill your iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Pro Max closer to 100% you also get the flexibility of USB type-c but to be honest there are going to be some people that just want that iOS integration just want the smarts of the max safe battery pack which you don't get with those competing third party devices and for those people that's totally understandable and honestly just the convenience of the max8 battery pack makes me want to be irrational and just go ahead and pay the 100 bucks what do you guys think which one would you choose let me let me know Down Below in the comment section thumbs up if you appreciated this video and hit that subscribe button for more videos like this this is Jeff with 9 to-5 Mac 9o5 Mac is sponsored by airbuddy 2 a musthave utility for airpods users as we discussed air bu 2 is the perfect companion for airpods it also extends Mac OS with a batteries witchet and menu bar icon that shows all your devices intelligently grouped and smart stats give you battery usage over time total listening time call time and shows you which airpod is draining his battery more quickly but airbuddy goes beyond headphones it can show battery information for your iOS devices accessories like the magic keyboard and Magic Mouse and even other Mac's running airbuddy including their accessories and with a magic handoff you can transfer a Magic Mouse trackpad or keyboard between two Macs running airbuddy with just a few clicks go to airbuddy do/ nto5 Mac to learn more the first 100 100 nto5 Mac viewers to use that URL would get airb with a 20% discount special thanks to airbuddy 2 for sponsoring 9 to5 Mac\n"