As per a recent patent discovered by Patently Apple, the Cupertino-based tech giant is working on a unique case for iPhones that can both house and charge the AirPods. Sounds pretty cool, right? This way, you won’t have to carry the AirPods charging case everywhere you go. You can simply place your TWS buds in the dedicated charging slots that will be there on the case to juice up the devices.
For instance, Apple, in one of the diagrams, shows an iPhone case, with a camera cut-out of an iPhone 7/ 8 Pro, charging a pair of AirPods at the top edge. This figure also shows various other elements like the circuitry, magnets, battery, and even a possible display panel (wait, what!?).
Another diagram in the patent shows a different kind of iPhone case with the inductive charging site at the back. So, in this version, instead of a secondary display like in the previous version, there is a raised area at the back.
Now, we just have to wait and see what workarounds Apple comes up with to make this unique iPhone case into a commercial product to sell.
