Tested: the iPad Air 2022 charges much quicker with a 30W power brick

Now that we've completed our iPad Air 2022 review, we have a bit more time to get into the weeds of what this tablet can do.

One of the gripes we had in the shakedown was that Apple only puts a 20W charging block in the box of one of its best tablets. Now, we know we should be grateful for any block at all, given they've been dropped from the iPhone series, but it doesn't feel large enough.

But we did have the 30W MacBook USB-C charging block available to test (which costs $49 / £49 / AU$69), so we thought that we'd give that a run down comparison – here are the results:

As you can see, the 30W charger (in red) charges faster than the linear juicing speeds of the in-box 20W option (in blue).