Satechi OntheGo 3-in-1 Charger review: Elegant 3-in-1 charger for your pocket
Macworld At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Charges iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods Fast-charge Watch 15W Qi2 for iPhone Compact and portable Color choices Cons Requires a USB-C wall charger Our Verdict The Satechi OnTheGo 3-in-1 Charger is a chic, highly portable clutter-killing all-in-one charger for Apple iPhone, Watch and AirPods that will suit your office or nightstand at home and also be your go-to carry-on charging companion when you are traveling. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Price When Reviewed$69.99 Best Prices Today: Satechi OntheGo 3-in-1 Charger Retailer Price Satechi $69.99 View Deal $69.99 View Deal $99.99 View Deal $99.99 View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket There are a few super-portable multi-chargers for your Apple devices, and the latest from Satechi has good looks, powerful wireless charging specs and can slip into your pocket with ease. It can charge three Apple devices at the same time, yet its shapely, convenient design—like a giant macaron—is comparable to that of rival chargers that can charge only two at once. The Satechi OnTheGo 3-in-1 Charger folds up so it can slip in your pocket and hitch a ride in your backpack.Satechi Design As part of Satechi’s growing OntheGo range of Apple-friendly accessories, the circular 3-in-1 Charger is available in three colors: standard Black if you must and two cheerier hues of Sand (a creamy beige) and Desert Rose (thankfully a not very shocking pink). Folded, it is compact: measuring 3.3 x 2.6 x 1.3 inches (83 x 67 x 34mm). When unfolded into its long line of wireless charging pads it’s 9.5 x 2.7 x 0.4 inches (243 x 67 x 11mm). It weighs 5.1oz (145g). Simon Jary You can use just the top Apple Watch charging pad without unfolding a thing, or extend to expose all three charging pads. The pads are connected with a silicone strap, within which are unseen wires taking power from the USB-C port that is situated in the middle pad’s body. The 5W Watch charging module—enough to fast-charge any Apple Watch of series 7 or later—can be laid flat or raise to Nightstand Mode. At the other end is the Qi2 charging pad on which you magnetically clamp your iPhone for fast but flat 15W wireless charging. In the middle there’s another 5W charger for the AirPods case. You can also use this Qi pad to charge another iPhone (from iPhone 8) although non-magnetically and therefor much slower—but it’s fine if you have the time. It compares well to the Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Folding Wireless Charging Station and 2-in-1 Twelve South MagSafe ButterFly. The MagSafe ButterFly and its cheaper Qi2 cousin the ButterFly SE are smaller at 2.4 x 2.4 x 0.9 inches (61 x 61 x 23mm) but are limited to charging just two devices at the same time. The Anker 3-in-1 measures 2.4 x 2.4 x 1.4 inches (60 x 60 x 36mm) when closed. The SE is also a third lighter than the Satechi and Anker (105g vs 150g). Read our Twelve South ButterFly review and ButterFly SE review, plus Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Charger review for more information on those products. Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Charger (left) and Twelve South ButterFly SE (right)Foundry Satechi vs its rivals Satechi OnTheGo 3-in-1 Charger Simultaneous charging: 3 devices iPhone charging: 15W Watch fast-charging: Yes Closed dimensions: 3.3 x 2.6 x 1.3 inches (83 x 67 x 34mm) Weight: 5.1oz (145g) Anker MagGo 3-in-1 Charger Simultaneous charging: 3 devices iPhone charging: 15W Watch fast-charging: Yes Closed dimensions: 2.4 x 2.4 x 1.4 inches (60 x 60 x 36mm) Weight: 6.9oz (196g) Twelve South ButterFly SE Simultaneous charging: 2 devices iPhone charging: 15W Watch fast-charging: Yes Closed dimensions: 2.4 x 2.4 x 0.9 inches (61 x 61 x 23mm) Weight: 4.2oz (119g) The ButterFly SE is the smallest and lightest but charges just two devices at the same time, and while it’s larger than the Anker the Satechi is a little lighter—it’s also better looking when folded. Despite being a little deeper, like the ButterFly and Anker MagGo the Satechi-OnTheGo 3-in-1 Charger will easily slip into a pocket, although you should remember that it requires a cable (nicely included in the same shade as the charger, which some chargers ignore) to connect to a separate USB-C wall charger (not included, and at least 36W recommended—read our reviews of the best USB-C charger for options if you don’t already own a spare wall charger). It comes with a 3.3ft (1m) USB-C charging cable. In comparison, the MagGo and ButterFly come with chargers (40W and 30W). The iPhone mostly lays flat, but it can be placed into a more useful landscape StandBy mode with some clever folding. Simon Jary Wireless performance Like the ButterFly SE and the Anker MagGo, the Satechi 3-in-1 uses Qi2 (pronounced “chee too”) tech that matches Apple’s MagSafe at 15W. It’s based on MagSafe so there’s no real difference except for price. (For more on this, see our explanation Is Qi2 is as good as MagSafe?) Again like the ButterFly and MagGo models, the MagGo is certified by Apple for Watch fast charging. For more options check out our reviews of the best MagSafe Chargers for iPhone and best Apple Watch chargers. Satechi Price The Satechi OnTheGo 3-in-1 Charger costs $69.99 / £99.99. The ButterFly SE costs $99.99 and the Anker MagGo $89.99. so the Satechi is cheaper in the U.S. but internationally its prices comes in quite high on Amazon. Note that unless you have a spare, you’ll need to but a USB-C wall charger to connect to the 3-in-1. The tiny Anker Nano 45W (Amazon / Amazon UK) would suit it well, or you can match the colors by buying Satechi’s own OntheGo 67W Slim Wall Charger (U.S. only). Should you buy the Satechi OnTheGo 3-in-1 Charger? The Satechi OnTheGo 3-in-1 Charger is a chic, highly portable clutter-killing all-in-one charger for Apple iPhone, Watch and AirPods that will suit your office or nightstand at home and also be your go-to carry-on charging companion when you are traveling.

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Apple has an AI problem that has nothing to do with Siri
Macworld It’s been about 15 minutes so, yes, it is time once again to check in on AI, the big baby of technology that can’t be left alone for five minutes without shoving a drawer full of socks in its mouth and blocking its airway, making it cry and flail its arms until someone comes to help it. Apple has become the target of not one but two AI-related lawsuits. Well, two new ones, anyway. It’s probably involved in others; the Macalope didn’t check. He’s not some kind of law-type person. There’s probably a name for those types of people, but if there is, the horny one is not familiar with it. Theifirst lawsuit involves a company called Ex-Human (really) that is suing Apple for removing its “sexually explicit chatbot” (according to the San Francisco Business Times) from the App Store. The MIT Technology Review did an investigation of Ex-Human and its Botify AI and found the following: One chatbot on Botify AI that resembled the actor Jenna Ortega as a teenage Wednesday Addams told us that age-of-consent laws are “meant to be broken.” Cool app, bro. Honestly, the modern technology landscape is so sad and exhausting sometimes. Ex-Human also makes an app called Photify AI: Photify AI’s service also blurs ethical bounds, as it can be used to generate images of real people wearing revealing outfits without their consent. San Francisco Business Times, April 1, 2026 This is, of course, reprehensible, but it’s hard to make an argument for this removal when Apple seems perfectly fine having Grok and X on the App Store, both of which create non-consensual sexual material. How do you say one is fine, but the other isn’t? Other than employing the famous billionaire owner’s exception policy, the Macalope means. Look, just become a billionaire before submitting your app! How hard it that?! While the company faces this “Too little AI!” lawsuit, it is also beset by a “Too much AI!” suit. The owners of three YouTube channels allege that Apple: …violated the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by unlawfully accessing and scraping millions of copyrighted videos from YouTube to train its AI models. MacRumors, April 2, 2026 As a writer whose copyrighted work has probably been scraped by some AI somewhere without him seeing a dime, the Macalope is inclined to side with these YouTube channels. And two of them are channels about golf. Ugh. Gross. But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win! Actually, you could win. Easily. Here’s how. If you’d like to receive regular news and updates to your inbox, sign up for our newsletters, including The Macalope and Apple Breakfast, David Price’s weekly, bite-sized roundup of all the latest Apple news and rumors.Foundry The Macalope doesn’t know if you’ve heard, but Apple does have some small amount of money lying around so it seems like it could easily shell out to pay to license these works to train its models. However, much like Mr. Burns watching a pig soaring across the sky, it would just rather not. Meanwhile, in the App Store case, Apple could just consistently apply its rules. If it wants to keep saying it’s the safest place on Earth, it should make sure it is across the board, whether the app is owned by an overly litigious billionaire or not. For companies like the horrible litigants in the case, it wouldn’t be a problem if Apple allowed other app stores in every country, instead of just the ones where governments have ordered it to. Then trash apps like that become a legislative problem, not Apple’s. The juxtaposition of these two cases highlights the Macalope’s big problems with AI. For some reason, companies are taking on AI as if it is an existential need for humanity that must be developed as fast as possible no matter the cost. It. Is. Not. AI has its uses, of course, but the real impetus behind the desperate push to put it everywhere immediately is simply to make a certain group of people even more fabulously wealthy than they already are. That’s it. That is why they believe the rules should not apply to them. But they do. The only question is, will anyone enforce them? Lawyers! That was the word. How silly.

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