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Best 3-in-1 MagSafe Charging Stand for iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch!

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This is the Belkin 3-in-1 BoostCharge Pro stand, by far my absolute favorite charger for iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch. I’ve gone through a number of charging stands over the years, including many for MagSafe on the iPhone 12, 13 and 14, and this is the one I keep coming back to. This isn’t sponsored: nobody sent it to me or offered to pay for the video.

Design

Simple and elegant. I like the stainless steel post and arms, which reflect the room as you move around and help it blend in. The white parts are a soft rubberized material that holds your devices in place without being a lint trap, and it comes in black too. The base is more than five inches wide with a nice heft, so it won’t slide around on a desk or nightstand.

Mine lives on my nightstand, the perfect bedside stand for charging everything as you go to bed.

Charging

  • iPhone: connect your phone to the back with MagSafe. It’s a full 15 W, because Belkin partnered with Apple to make it a truly MagSafe-certified device. The magnets hold my iPhone 14 Pro firmly, even with notifications and vibrations going off, and it works with any MagSafe-compatible case (mine is Apple’s leather case). You can charge in portrait or landscape. MagSafe’s 15 W varies with heat and background activity, so you most likely won’t always get 15 W, but I just put the phone on at bedtime.
  • Apple Watch: it has the faster charging introduced with Series 7: an Apple Watch Series 7 or 8 reaches about 80% in 45 minutes.
  • AirPods: any AirPods or AirPods Pro with a wireless charging case, just drop it on the base.

Price

Not inexpensive, on the higher side for a three-device charger: normally about $150 from Apple or Belkin, though at the time it was on sale at Best Buy (link in the description).

Why trust my opinion?

It isn’t sponsored, and I’ve used the original version since January 2021, and this slightly updated version with faster Apple Watch charging for almost two years. It’s absolutely fantastic. Why did I buy a second one? I handed down my iPhone 13 Pro to my wife and figured she’d like a nice charging stand to go with it. I also have the 2-in-1 BoostCharge Pro, just as good, without the Watch charger. And of all the multi-device Apple charging stands I’ve tried, and made videos about, none match the design and simplicity of this Belkin.

Two things that bug me

  1. The light never turns off while AirPods are charging. Depending on how picky you are, that might bug you if it’s by your bed, or you might not care. I go back and forth. I wish there were an option to disable it, since you can see the AirPods charging on the case itself.
  2. It charges by a proprietary adapter, not USB-C. It probably doesn’t matter for something that sits on a nightstand or desk, and it isn’t a travel stand, but it would have been nice to have a standard charger.

Is there a different 3-in-1 charger I should be checking out?

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