Not really. iPhones should charge even with the most basic USB charge cables & dumbest chargers. I think his friend's charger is playing is safe and refusing to charge because it couldn't determine the cable type. It happens with my Baseus 100W PD when used with a dumb charge only cable.

I tested what I had on my table.

Remax USB-USBC Charge Cable is a dumb cable. Just GND & Voltage wires, no CC.
Jisulife Fan USBC2 Cable is USB2 cable. CC is wired. I couldn't find a more basic C-C charge cable.

✅ Lemax Extension USB -> Remax USB-USBC Charge Cable -> ip16pm
✅ Xiaomi 67W USB -> Remax USB-USBC Charge only Cable -> ip16pm
❌ Baseus 100W 4-port USB -> Remax USB-USBC Charge only Cable -> ip16pm
✅ Lemax Extension USBC -> Jisulife Fan USBC2 Cable (CC) -> ip16pm
✅ Baseus 100W 4-port USBC -> Jisulife Fan USBC2 Cable (CC) -> ip16pm
✅ Apple 20W USBC -> Jisulife Fan USBC2 Cable (CC) -> ip16pm

Lemax Extension is a 4-gang UK extension with 2 USB & 1 USBC (BC1.2 & Apple.)
Xiaomi 67W came with the Poco F5. (PD & QC)
Baseus 100W 4-port is 2 USB + 2 USBC (PD, QC, Samsung & Huawei.)
Apple 20W is Apple (PD 20W)
*in brackets is/are what the tester detected
*all chargers have BC1.2 (USB Basic Charging)

Damn.. phone price tumbling down even before 17 is announced .. guess we should all hold off from buying new gen next time ..

Can you guys recommend me a good powerbank for iphone 16 pro max and iphone 16 pro
Currently eyeing Xone Razor MagCharge 7.6mm ultra thin power bank  https://my.shp.ee/EGg44kp
Uneed ultra thin powerbank https://my.shp.ee/iMgtCMX

Searching for ultra thin powerbank for my iPhone 16 Pro Max and my wife iPhone 16 Pro

Thank you

For 10000mah it's cheap plus it's yoobao, pocket friendly, but no magnetic charging feature, overall still a good powerbank, will be on my wishlist

Whatsapo for ipad is now out!

sorry to say that , titanium and stainless generally are stronger than aluminum , the only benefit from aluminium is light weight , that the reason why u see nowadays a lot of kitchen cabinet , auto-gate slowly move from stainless to aluminum because of it light weight.
unless u going naked , otherwise just put your phone with a good case then wont be too much of worry.

noted , well in my case i bought a iphone 16 pro max black titanium then suddenly realised natural titanium seems more attractive since my wife iphone 16 pro natural titanium bought at the same time as my black titanium ..
then managed to sell back my iphone 16 pro max black titanium and bought iphone 16 pro max natural titanium

At official sc right, i guess worth it since the battery authentic and will last long, rather then send to unauthorized sc cheaper but you will get oem battery 😅

Noted, i would replace my 16pm battery if the battery health already hit 78% - 80%
If below 70% im afraid the performance not that good 🙂🔥

Just upgrade, from 14 definitely worth upgrade to 17 😅

They will need you to reset the phone.

Then, I'm not sure anymore. I changed mine at Switch, it is mandatory to reset my phone and they even wanted me to remove the casing and screen protector.

undecided to upgrade from 14pm to 16pm or 17pm or even Air 17

Call Screening is win... noticed 2 spam calls ha ha ha... those that dials in that keeps quiet... another was the recorded messages.

Goodbye 16 Pro Max
28.09.24-23.09.25 and still managed to retain 100% battery health. None of my previous iPhones were as good as it.

Traded-in back to Apple, RM 3.5k.

Yes, 16PM.
Well, I don't think too much about it, after all buying a phone is already a liability. I won't use a phone for 5 years for sure even iPhones are capable.