iPhone 12 Pro charging slowly with Magsafe charger

I bought the MagSafe charger with the 20w brick today for my new iPhone 12 Pro. When I put the iPhone on it, I had 63% battery life. 15 minutes later I had 60% and I only used it to check the weather, etc a couple of time. Now it has dropped to 58% after another 15 minutes on the MagSafe charger.

I even shut the iPhone down and restarted but it is not charging at all and is in fact draining the battery.

What gives?

How fast does the new iP 12 charge with your existing wireless charger compared to the new Mag Safe charger? I have a Mophie 7.5w and it charges my iP 11 Pro Max faster than what you are reporting for the iP 12 + Mag Safe. Do I sense a "Chargergate" brewing?

That’s actually a very different issue; most of the reports in this thread say it is only a problem with the MagSafe charger. What are you using as a power source when plugging it in? As a minimum it should be a 12 watt “iPad” power source; better is an 18 watt USB-C, best is a 20 watt or higher USB-C.

My iPhone 12 Pro is charging incredibly slowly on the magsafe charger - like staying at the same percentage for 20 + minutes and just getting insanely hot. I almost burned my hand on the back of the magsafe charger. I thought this was supposed to be faster than traditional wireless charging but so far it is much slower and far hotter. Not a fan of this or the phone. I like the design so much but if this is a flaw then I dont know that I want to keep it

I charge my phone overnight with the Apple endorsed Mophie 7.5w wireless charger. My phone is always charged when I wake up in the morning. I rarely charge it during the day since I don’t need to but when I do it never gets hotter than barely warm. I’ll pass on Mag-Safe thank you.

As iphone 12 pro has been out for few weeks already, and a lot of people must have the same issue of the Magsafe slow charging. I hope Apple Inc. should look into the root cause, and publicily announce any solutions. I saw the news about the design of the magsafe by a Japanese designer, and I believe the issue is more on the sofeware. Apple Inc. has done an extensive R&D on the new iphones to add magnetic functions to work with the magsafe, so, there must be an easy fix I hope.

Yes! I thought I was the only one! Got a brand new iphone 12 pro max with magsafe and charger, pieace of junk!! It takes more than twice the speed of wired charging and it heats up the phone to almost buring to the touch, I'm surprised at how apple can market things like its waterproof resistance (which they already got fined for in europe after it was proven to be false advertising) and its fast wireless charging and have it be sooo different in real life, its nothing short of false advertising, what a scam.

I also have the same problem, I thought Magesafe charger would be faster, but it takes double of what cable does. I don’t think that I benefit anything of having it if it’s slow. If there is setting to be done to make it work faster it would be appreciated

The phone seems to only fast charge when on the Lock Screen. But I can’t be sure since there is no indicator if it’s regular or fast charging other than the circle and lighting indicator that only appears while the phone is on the Lock Screen. So is it still fast charging whole on the Home Screen or in an app like Spotify or maps?

I don’t think it is because the battery was draining instead of charging while I was using GPS, Spotify and Doordash.

I also have the same problem with iPhone 12 Pro + Magsafe + Original Apple 20W power supply and at the beginning it worked perfectly and was not too slow in loading, so at some point it really slowed down to the point of taking all day more than 12h trying to charge. Or sometimes it doesn't even load. And as already found out many people are having this problem! I paid dearly for a product that is said to be premium and that's not what I found!

I bought iphone 12 Pro in Jan and within first 10 days, i raised the same issue with customer support and since then i have been visiting apple store but of no use. Phone takes much longer time to charge and when i asked for phone replacement, they are refusing to replace even i had raised the issue in the first 10 days only. Lot of time being wasted without any proper support. This is the prize apple is paying to its loyal customers.

Please keep us posted. I have the same setup and I just don’t know whether I should just return this MagSafe and case cause this is definitely not working properly.