No, You Can’t Charge Your AirPods With the Apple Watch Charger
On paper, this little trick should be possible. The Apple Watch uses a Qi-based charger, and the AirPod wireless charging case also supports Qi charging. Instead of plugging in a wireless charging case, you can place it directly on your Apple Watch charger to give it some power. Right?
It doesn’t matter if you’ve seen this image, a similar image, or if you’ve got a wacky idea in your head that this little trick could save you the trouble of ever messing with a cable, I have a bubble to burst. This trick doesn’t work. Many people have already struck through different communities to point this out. And no, you also can’t just put your AirPods directly on the Apple Watch charger .
The weird part of this hack, however, is that some people still claim to be able to charge their AirPods wireless case. If true, this requires you to do some precise positioning, which means you can’t just put the wireless charging case on the Apple Watch charger no matter how much you want and expect anything to happen:
Even then, the wireless charging case cannot actually be charging:
And please don’t let this tech meme inspire any other nonsense:
Instead of wasting hours of your life fiddling with this, I have a better idea. You can buy a variety of third-party wireless chargers that make it easy to charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch at the same time. They tend to range from moderately expensive to decently expensive, but this is the best way to combine your chargers in one place. If you are opting for a cheaper charger from another manufacturer, make sure you do your homework and read the product reviews before purchasing. It’s better to let others communicate the quality of your charger – if it works very well at all – than to be satisfied with what has already been achieved.