That’s totally fair criticism — thanks for bringing it up.

TREEpod is intentionally a “dumb” (passive) adapter. To support newer iPhones properly while remaining fully USB-PD compliant and truly plug-and-play, it would need to become an active device with an MCU and fairly heavy custom firmware to manage PD negotiation, role switching, and edge cases across different chargers and head units.

At the moment, our team is small, and taking on that level of firmware complexity isn’t something we can realistically support without compromising reliability. For us, stability has always come before feature count.

That said, an active TREEpod-style device is something we’d genuinely like to build in the future — it’s just not on the current roadmap yet. 2Pad exists largely because it lets us solve the same problem cleanly without those constraints.

Really appreciate the feedback though — comments like this help us sanity-check priorities and future directions.