The Anker MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro is great, but not for Android

Anker is one of the top brands for charging tech, and likely one of the first places someone might look for a portable charger to go with a brand-new phone, or if their long-running handset needs a little help lasting a full day away from the outlet. So I was hoping that when I received the Anker MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro ($109.99 at Amazon) in the mail, it would become one of the top picks from one of the top brands. Turns out that I’m half right.

With a compact frame, built-in fan cooling, and the fastest Qi2 charging speeds on offer, the MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro seems like an ideal option. However, while this isn’t labeled as a Made For iPhone-branded product, it effectively is, with certain features designed for Apple MagSafe-equipped phones.

That said, this power bank remains a quality product that still serves Android users to an acceptable level. Read on to figure out if that’s enough to convince you to make a purchase.

On offer in a selection of four colors, the MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro costs $109 (or £99 here in the UK), the most expensive wireless power bank Anker currently offers in this size.

The Power Bank 2 Pro is effectively an evolution of the MagGo Power Bank (10k), which is still on sale as a more affordable option. This original model has the same capacity as the new Pro version but has lower wired and wireless power output and more basic display and info options.

The Pro is also slimmer and lighter, weighing 7.76 ounces (220 grams) and measuring 0.69 inches (17.5mm) thick compared to 8.82 ounces (250 grams) and 0.78 inches (19.8mm), despite packing all that extra tech. Anker isn’t marketing the MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro on its size, but it’s certainly easy to keep in a bag for when you need it, or even a pocket if you’re travelling light.

If it’s just an easily-portable way to carry an extra 10,000 mAh of power around with you that you’re after, then this option from Anker and numerous others will do the job nicely. But the Power Bank 2 Pro wants to offer more.

As well as a (certified flight-safe) 10k milliamp-hours, the Power Bank 2 Pro supports up to 25W wireless charging, and 45W wired input and output when you need to refill the power bank or want to do some cable-based charging.

Let’s start with the primary feature — charging. The MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro offers up to 25W wireless charging for compatible phones and up to 45W wired charging — usable for powering up other devices or for refilling the power bank itself.

Powering up an iPhone 18 Pro Max, which is compatible with the full 25W wireless charging available, the MagGo managed to fill 25% of the battery in 15 minutes, 80% after an hour, and hit 100% full in 1 hour 40 minutes, taking 83% of the power bank’s on-board battery to refuel the iPhone’s 5,391mAh battery. It’s worth keeping in mind that no charging method is 100% efficient, but wireless charging is never going to be the fastest way to refill your phone, especially when the MagGo power bank has a fan running at the same time.

Throughout, I perceived only a minor temperature increase when picking up the iPhone or any other connected devices to check their progress, meaning if you had to use your phone as it was powering up, you’d only have to deal with the increased weight of the Anker piggybacking on it, rather than an uncomfortably hot phone.

Charging my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 with Samsung’s own Clear Magnet Case to ensure proper alignment was a different story. The Z Fold 8 is Qi2 compatible and can accept up to 20W of wireless power. However, it took a few minutes for the MagGo power bank to figure this out, oscillating between 5-8W before hitting full power.

The foldable and the charger were both hot to the touch for most of the charging process, even with the fan running. The Z Fold 8 only hit 21% after 15 minutes, took an hour to reach 50%, and took almost two and a half hours to reach 100%. That’s despite it having a smaller capacity than the iPhone I tested.

Given its size, getting a 45W wired input or output on the MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro is just as useful as its magnetic wireless charging. It means you can refill the charger from 0 – 100% in 1 hour and 10 minutes, for one. It also makes it capable of delivering emergency power to larger devices when required.

I was able to charge up my 14-inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro to 49% in a little over 40 minutes, at the expense of completely draining the power bank. Similarly, I filled my Razer Blade 14 to 47% in 50 minutes, after which the MagGo was also at 0%. A larger 20,000mAh power bank would be a better pick for anyone needing to refill a laptop regularly, but this is still a useful backup to have.

The MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro’s SnapCool fan, as Anker brands it, is a tiny 18mm diameter unit that activates when the power bank hits 15W wireless charging. The fan, aided by graphene layers beneath the power bank’s skin, plus large vents at the top and bottom, aims to keep temperatures at a warm but not uncomfortable 36 degrees Celsius (about 97 degrees Fahrenheit).

When running, the fan is audible, making the kind of wooshing sound you’d expect from a small spinning object. However, it’s not that loud — only registering between 30-40dB when I measured it on my phone from about a foot away — so you won’t notice it unless you hold the charger up to your ear or are sitting in an otherwise silent room.

You can, of course, always turn the fan off by engaging the power bank’s Silent mode. But this results in a noticeable performance drop.

With the fan switched off, the one hour and 10 minutes it takes to refuel the power bank turns to one hour and 30 minutes; a full recharge of the iPhone 18 Pro Max takes three hours and forty minutes, or in the case of the Z Fold 8, it takes just over three hours.

Granted, the Z Fold 8 had reached 50% at the one-hour 15-minute mark, and the iPhone hit the same percentage at just over an hour. That should give more than enough power for you to get on with it if you can afford a long lunch break to let the power bank work, but it’s not great in comparison to the MagGo’s standard mode of operation.

Unless you want every available milliamp-hour going into your devices, or are disturbed by the fan spinning, it’s worth keeping the fan active at all times, especially if you’re trying to charge the phone.

Screens can be somewhat unnecessary on charging tech, and while there are a few flourishes that aren’t all that important to its functionality, Anker has justified its presence here on the MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro.

When attaching a phone to the magnetic charger, the Power Bank 2 Pro will display the connected device’s brand if it recognizes it, which it did with both my iPhone and my Galaxy phone. The charger also claims to apply a unique charging profile to improve speed and battery health. However, it doesn’t clearly communicate what this profile does or how it changes the power bank’s behavior.

Once it’s claimed to have applied the perfect charging profile, the Anker can then provide a time estimate for a full recharge. While this was generally accurate for fan-on charging times, I only saw this work for the iPhone and only when charging the bank itself, which is, sadly, further evidence that Android is a second thought for this product.

More practically, the display can show you the power bank’s charging status, battery level, battery health, output power for both the wireless and wired outputs, the current temperature, and the fan status, which you navigate via pressing the single button to cycle through the menus in order, with a double-tap switching settings like the fan or wireless charging function on and off, and a long press turning off the display. It’s simple and effective enough, as you’d hope from a method that Anker has been using for some years already for other products in its portfolio.

If you have the MagGo charging a device for over five minutes, the power bank will show a summary screen when you disconnect the device, which shows how much time the fan saved if the fan function was in use. These numbers didn’t match my own test data with the fan on and off, so I’m not sure how Anker is calculating these.

The full MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro package includes a decent number of extras beyond its charging capabilities. The power bank comes with a stand pre-attached, allowing you to position your phone at an optimum angle without blocking the vents. It gives the power bank some use even when you’re not charging anything, even if it’s quite a bit heavier than a dedicated fold-up phone stand.

Also included in the box is a storage pouch and a one-foot USB-C cable. The cable is braided, but the two connectors feel kind of cheap. That may be due to Anker’s use of recycled materials, though, so I won’t hold that against it too much. Especially since the cable can support up to 60W of power, making it compatible with more powerful chargers as well.

The pouch fits the power bank and cable perfectly and feels thick enough to protect them from scratches. It gives a little extra confidence that you can throw the charger in any bag without it getting damaged, though the bag isn’t thick enough to keep the magnet from sticking to things, so keep your USB sticks separate.

As a premium charging product, the Anker MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro ticks all the boxes. It’s compact but powerful, with a healthy number of features that all work in concert to guarantee the fastest possible on-the-go charging. You can get far cheaper power banks of the same or higher capacity from brands like UGREEN, Satechi, or even within Anker’s portfolio with the MagGo Power Bank (10k), but this is the current peak when it comes to features. Perhaps the closest competitor is the UGREEN MagFlo Pro,
which offers a similar feature set but with liquid cooling instead of a fan, and a slightly higher basic price.

The problem is that while the MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro a good Android companion, it’s a better one for iPhone. It would be unreasonable to expect Anker to ignore the millions of possible Apple-wielding buyers, but times have changed in the past two years since Anker’s last wave of MagGo chargers came out. Android adoption of Qi2 magnetic wireless charging has accelerated, with Samsung offering the speed (albeit not the magnets) in its flagship Galaxy S and Galaxy Z series products. Google has gone even further with its Pixelsnap system, first offering Qi2 speeds on the Pixel 10 series (with full 25W speeds on the Pixel 10 Pro XL), and then 25W Qi2.2 on all Pixel 11 series phones.

I have to hope that Anker will update the MagGo Power Bank 2 Pro down the line, or bring out a new version, so PixelSnap-compatible Pixel phones or Qi2-ready Samsung phones with the correct cases will work fully with the power bank.

I appreciate that not every Android brand can be included, as there is a wide range of components and software to account for, let alone proprietary wireless charging standards. But with brands like Samsung and Google adopting the open Qi2 standard — one literally built on top of Apple’s MagSafe charging tech — I don’t know what’s stopping Anker from giving these phones the full experience. Not just a little flag on the display that IDs the brand of phone you’ve attached.