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> is this the first use of "reverse charging"?

It's not, the Pencil does it, too.

Various other accessories are also bus-powered.

First use of Reverse Wireless charging on an iPhone. Also, the iPad charging is one way.

Just as it should be, why would a tablet with it's huge battery charge something else? That's the job of the small phone!

But seriously, someone fucked up with the circuit design here.

The iPad Pro will charge a phone plugged into it via a USB-C to lightning cable.

iPad doesn't have any induction coils to support reverse wireless charging, but you can use it as a USB-C phone battery

Ah, I misread. From the context on the help article it's clear. I thought it referred to connecting phone and battery pack with Lightning.

Edited to clarify for the iPhone (since the Pencil is a fair counterexample for iPad)

You can also charge the pencil from an iPhone. It's just another Lightning device.

The second generation Pencil is inductive only. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211019

I prefer to charge my pencil via my lightning earpods.