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What's the difference between MagSafe and Qi wireless charging?
['Max Miller']
Engadget
MagSafe seemed like a potential gimmick when Apple introduced it on the iPhone 12, leveraging the same branding it had long used for magnetic MacBook chargers.
Once you've experienced the ease of snapping your phone onto a charging stand or one of the best MagSafe power banks, you'll never want to fiddle with USB-C cables ever again.
On non-Apple devices, the magnetic charging ring is part of the Qi2 spec, so rather than calling it MagSafe you should look for a Qi2 label.
They're functionally identical though, so you can snap Qi2 phones and cases directly onto MagSafe-branded accessories.
So far, only a few Android phones have integrated Qi2 directly on-device, most notably in the form of the PixelSnap ecosystem on the Google Pixel 10.