You’ve just pulled up to your house after work and your phone rings. It’s that company you’re waiting to hear back from about the interview, it’s that girl you want to take out on a date, it’s your best friend calling about the tickets to THAT concert. You slide your finger across your iPhone to answer and that’s when you see it. After a day of instagramming, tweeting, texting, and surfing the web, your phone battery is drained. There’s a sliver of red left in the battery bar and it reads “1%.”

You do your best impression of Usain Bolt from your car to your house. Throw open the door reach the living room and breath a big sigh of relief. “BuuuhDup.” You hear the familiar chime of your phone starting to charge, because finally Apple has gotten long distance wireless charging up and running.

A nice little fantasy, but unfortunately it’s still a few years away.

Everyone is buzzing about how Apple is finally playing in the wireless charging game, and, not to be a Debbie Downer about this whole subject, but the truth is—I’m not as jazzed as everyone else appears to be. To be fair, the wireless charging options out right now aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, in my opinion. You don’t have to physically plug your phone into a charger (big whoop!), but you still have to place it on a wireless charging pad and leave it in order to charge. Then, let’s say you want to text or pick up a phone call, once you pick it up off of the mat, it immediately stops charging. At least when utilizing a wall charger, you can still use your phone while it continues to charge. As of now, a wired charger seems to still be the better option. Hence why I believe Apple still hasn’t incorporated this technology into their phones just yet.

I bet they’re waiting until they can develop a way to charge smartphones while remaining within a certain distance of a charger or hub, with no physical limitations within the distance. In fact, back in 2005 Apple filed a patent about technology dealing with zero-contact induction of not only data, but charging as well. Seems as if eleven years ago they developed successful charging mats, but were likely trying to crack the distance issue. Granted, in 2005 they hadn’t even released the iPhone yet. They were still riding the success of the newly released iPod (5th generation), iPod Shuffle, and iPod Nano. So the idea of wireless charging was almost certainly on the back burner. Then in 2012, Apple filed another patent regarding near field magnetic resonance or NFMR. Without getting into the nitty-gritty details, Apple essentially created the ability to supply power wirelessly within a meter (or a little over 3 feet for my non-metric literate friends out there) to devices from a central device equipped with a NFMR power supply.

There are rumors of Apple releasing the new iPhone 7 (and yes, probably the 7s as well) in September of this year. But as far as confirmation of the new integration, nowhere on the released specs for the iPhone 7 does it say anything about wireless charging capabilities. There is plenty out about the possibility of there being no headphone jack, but mum’s the word about any kind of wireless charging. If I were you, I wouldn’t hold your breath. Well, at least not for long distance wireless charging integration in the next-gen iPhone, but hey, at least they’re moving in the direction we all want ‘em to.