iOS 14: No longer charging

I have the same issue. Iphone 7+. Updated to 14.1 and now won't charge on USB. It shows that it is recognised when plugged in but the battery percentage does not increase and continue to drain battery. Only works when plugged in directly to the socket but not when charging from a PC.

I’m gonna tell you what, and this is my opinion, there have been a lot of people that upgraded to the newer iPhone, but like myself and many others we have the seven and the 8+ and they work fine so like with myself I finally got out of my two-year contract and my phone bill Scott for $150-$90 a month and they’re trying to force you in my opinion to buy a new phone when your battery dies and you can no longer charge it because if they know this is a legitimate problem from everybody complaining they would have an update out there Already either to revert back to the last update or fix this problem so far I’m glad mine is only an issue where I have to leave my vehicle off before I plug in and then start the car everywhere else is charging fine knock on wood

After installing IOS 14.1, my iPhone 11 Pro won’t charge on any of my cables. None of my Apple cables work. The only thing that works is a portable charger made by a 3rd party mfg. This is crazy. I hope IOS 14.2 fixes this.

WTF 🤬 Is Apple so busy working in the background trying to get a solution for this that they can’t even respond do they even look at this forum as anybody you know try to reach out to Apple or been in a store and complained about it where they could get to corporate I haven’t checked today but I’m wondering if the update is out there

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I had this same problem too. There is this new option in "Batteries" in "Settings" called "Optimized Battery Charging", which helps you charge your iPhone routinely (it is set default to "on"). This option learns from how you charge daily, and allows the battery to charge only during those specific periods. Because you just updated to iOS 14, this system may not have learned from your daily charging routine yet. I recommend turning it off now to help you charge your iPhone properly. You can turn it back on later, when it has learned your charging routine, so that it can help to save battery life. You can also leave it off, because it doesn't help too much, and may disrupt your charging when in an emergency.

First try this, if it still doesn't work, try updating your software, sometimes it may fix bugs like this. The newest software is 14.2.

Best of luck! Hope this helps!

I installed IOS 14.2, but that didn’t fix it. But when I switched “Optimized Battery Charging” to off, a few of my cables started to work. Not all of them though. And when I powered off my phone the “Optimized Battery Charging” automatically switched back on, so I had to turn it back off. Thanks for your help. :)

I can’t charge my $1000 phone after the update. Are you kidding me? It’s now worth less than a concrete brick. At least if I threw a brick at someone it would hurt them. Come on apple this is ridiculous

I had this same problem a few days ago till someone gave me this advice: There is a new option in "Settings”, in “Batteries" in “Battery Health” called "Optimized Battery Charging", which helps you charge your iPhone routinely (it is set default to "On"). Switch this setting to “Off”. Just know after you turn it off, sometimes it switches back on, so you’ll have to continually check this setting to ensure you can still manually charge your phone without this setting blocking you.

Also make sure your software is updated to IOS 14.2. I hope these suggestions help. Good luck.

This has been a really tough update. Truly awful.

Theyve issued 2 more in the last 7 days to fix it. 14.1 was very small and did nothing. 14.2 was a complete reissue of 14, very large and time consuming but it did fix the charging problem for me. If you can get your phone to turn on, do the 14.2 update.

Good luck!

Took my phone to Apple repair and it’s totally screwed . Only happened since 14.1 , now they said that I used a non Apple charger , which I may have but i usually use an Apple charger.

so that it then , new phone, no offer of a discount.

Thanks Apple , I am now a Samsung phone user .

Good point. People should do that, too. However, several users here have visited a Genius Bar and been told it's a hardware problem with their phone. That was nearly me. I was one of the first to post in this thread and, as well as my non-charging iPhone SE, I took my iPad with this thread bookmarked to my Genius Bar appointment. Having read the few posts to that time, the Geniuses (it took two) still said my charging port looked corroded ... but they would replace my phone anyway—but they stressed that I was lucky, they wouldn't normally replace a phone in such condition. The phone was only 7 months old and, like everybody else's here, was working fine until the OS update.

I contend that, to this time, this thread has escaped the notice of the Apple support process, Geniuses are unaware of it and people are being dealt with on a case-by-case basis and told their phone or battery is screwed (which it may have been by this OS update).

Threads in this user-to-user forum are not used as input to the support process. Occasionally when there are thousands of reports of an issue support will glean the IDs of users who posted to contact them for more information.

Where? I've searched on "iPhone not charging iOS14" and all I find is a few threads on theses Apple Discussions, some beta users on Reddit and a bunch of generic "iPhone not charging" fixes. Not one of the tech publications has any mention of charging problems after updating to iOS14. I think it's largely unknown.

This list of iOS14.2 fixes makes zero mention of it. https://screenrant.com/iphone-update-ios-14-2-bug-fixes/

Plus, there's nothing on YouTube.

Apple doesn't want unhappy/angry users. Apple has always gone out of its way to keep me happy. Really, I think if Tim Cook read this thread, he'd be mortified. Someone needs to tell him.

I think Apple knows. I had a support ticket that was created and i probably contacted apple 5 or 6 times. I had to push hard to finally get it escalated. At that point a tech remoted into my phone and DL diagnostic logs for there engineers.

They know

I don't think Tim cook and his billions care. Between this disaster of an update, an well established history of bug ridden IOS updates and Apple not allowing Nvidia to release drivers for my Macbook pro I'm pretty disgusted with apple.