Apple Car Play connects less reliably than it used to but it’s a worthwhile trade off for the faster charging speeds.

This is advertised for quick charging while using carplay, but if your car has a USB port that doesn't power off and you are using a wireless Carplay/AA adapter with the car like an Ioniq 5 (and maybe the EV6, GV60, etc.?) this is an invaluable little device. It lets you take the power from the cigarette lighter and the data from the USB port and stops your wireless adapter trying to connect to your phone even when your car is off. It's also a nice, compact, discrete design. There are some power blockers you can get on Amazon, but they're ugly (like Bezos), and you can do some surgery to a USB Y cable to achieve the same outcome, but this is just so easy and nice. 5 stars, worth every penny.

I received my Treepod quickly and as described despite it coming from overseas. I have a iPhone 16 pro and PDFriender came up with a solution to get the best possible charging solution for my device using a lightning cable and adapter. I would like to see a solution in the future which does not require this and the mess of wires it creates. I would also like to get the max 45w as this solution is limited to 30w understanding the real world results would be minimal.

I've been using it with my dongle DAC because my DAC sucks out too much battery from my phone. The treepod solves that problem!

Finally my iPhone charges properly while connected to carplay.