iPhone 12 Pro Wireless Charging Issues

I'm in the US and both iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Max are charging just fine on wireless chargers. I did, as I've said multiple times in this thread, replace our older chargers with newer chargers, with dual charging plates and a higher output QC3.0 charging bricks.

Since doing that, charging has been 100% consistent now for over 3 weeks.

P10lv wrote:

Apple’s been pretty quiet on this wireless charging issue. Maybe they can’t figure it out. Looks like Samsung next time

Apple has released thus far two iOS updates which address this issue. That's not exactly being quiet on a subject. If you are expecting Apple to publicly acknowledge any issue, they just don't do that.

As to your issue, what have you done to try to solve it? I got new chargers with dual plates and a higher output QC3.0 brick and haven't had a single issue since. Perhaps your charger is single plate and doesn't output enough power?

And as to whether Samsung or for that matter any other phone is to be your next phone, you should always buy the device which best meets your needs. As this is a user to user only forum and Apple isn't here, what phone you choose to buy however, matters not at all to us.

I had this problem with ProMax 12. I went thru all the troubleshooting; however, what actually did the trick for me was that I replaced the charging (plug-in) block with a different one. That FIXED my issue, 100%. Not saying I found the magic fix, but it was easy and it worked in my situation.

VTWarrior wrote:

Saying that Samsung has made changes that effected their wireless charging compatibility is simply not true....I have a NOTE 5G and another Samsung S20 in the family and neither phone has a problem at different voltage on different 3rd party chargers.....

There are myriad posts on various Samsung forums about issues S21 owners are having with their phones and wireless charging using third-party Qi chargers that worked fine with their older devices; things work as expected with Samsung wireless chargers.

There are some wireless coil issues on stand chargers, and thats why many of those manufacturers (Belkin is one) specifically state their older stand chargers are not compatible with the iPhone 12 family. just as Logitech's wireless stand charger that worked fine with the X, Xs and XR did not work with the iPhone 11.

Native Union has a nice FAQ about charging and coil alignment that is not iPhone-specific:

Native Union: My wireless charger is not charging my device. What should I do?

Bought a new 15w charger problem fixed. I even left the Ottobox case on and every night it charges to 100%.

So now everyone needs to throw out the old 10w chargers and buy a 15/20w and the world is a better place.

It is compatible with Qi chargers, the problem is the accessory makers have gone beyond that.

For example, I have four year-old Qi chargers that work perfectly with the 12 Pro Max because they are “puck” chargers and don’t make assumptions as to where the coil is.

I also have Belkin stands that do not because they did make erroneous assumptions - as shown by the fact Belkin discontinued them and made new models that are.

Same issue here. I set my iPhone 12 Pro on a wireless charger every night, and 9 times out of 10 I have to restart to get it to charge. I finally bought the MagSafe charger thinking the issue may be the third party charger. But, to my surprise, the exact same thing happens with the MagSafe.

Interesting observation. If my phone doesn't start charging when I set it on my wireless charger, I'll shut it down while still positioned on the charger. (I don't pick it up) Something about the wireless charger causes it then to auto restart without me having to hold down the power button. And after it's booted up, it's successfully charging. On the same spot.

Resetting the network connections fixed the wireless charging issue for me. Spent an hour with apple they had no clue!

press the volume up button then volume down button then hold down the Lock Screen button until the screen goes black and the apple logo appears. I did this now my chargers work

One of the guys further up the thread recommended turning off “Optimize My Battery “ feature in settings and this coming from a skeptic, it really works!

Update, I decided to try the fix described by others and reset network settings (this was ridiculed by the Apple advisor) it seems to have worked at least it has so far, the phone is now charging and not getting hot. I’m going to keep my appointment for now and see how it goes this week, possibly fixed? Possibly not we will see. (P.s. mine is a standard 12, not a pro.)

I was having the same issue where I had to reboot my phone in order to use a wireless charger. Apple support was able to help me resolve the issue. This is what Apple support had me do.

1. Press the volume up button once (only this button should be pressed)
2. Press the down button once (only this button should be pressed)
3. Press and hold the power button until the phone automatically shuts off (only this button should be pressed and ignore the power off slider and keep the button pressed until the phone automatically shuts off)
4. Turn the phone back on and charging works repeatedly.

I hope this works for others too.

The reality is there isn't a Wireless charging problem with iPhone 12. There IS an issue with where the charger is in the new phones relative to some older wireless chargers and I keep seeing some here using Magsafe cases, but on traditional wireless chargers or like you discovered with cases which have some kind of either metal or magnet in the case, which will not play well with wireless chargers on iPhone 12.

As I've said a few times, we bought new more modern Wireless chargers, with 18W QC3.0 charging bricks and dual plates in the charger and we've had absolutely no issues charging wirelessly since.

FWIW, happening on a variety of charging set ups w my iPhone 12 Pro. It starts to charge and then at some point stops. I have an Ecoflow RiverBank for wireless. Also an OEM charging cable plugged in to a powered USB hub, as well as an OEM plugged into an Anker Powerport 4, the label of which says it charges at 2.4 amps max per any USB plug. I also have a pretty generic car charger which SEEMS to work, but I’m rarely in my car long enough to gather much useful info on that device.

I know this topic is wireless, but the start/stop has been happening on both wired and wireless.

I turned off Optimized Battery Charging, and also turned off auto lock so I could keep an eye on things. This morning it charged to 100% (finally) on the Anker Powerport 4. Went smoothly and quickly.

I did look at the battery health meter, and it hadn’t charged over 50% in the last week. I don’t know if the Optimized Battery Charging is being smarter than I want it to be and is this controlling things, or if that’s just coincidence.

It's not the case - I've tried two different iPhone 12 Pro's (with and without the case) and the same results are there. It's not the chargers that have behaved just fine with previous models. It's not the positioning or whatever other things people have come up with on this forum.

It is the iPhone 12 and the way it was deployed with whatever configuration that doesn't fully-adhere to Qi standards.

I used to be tolerant of these things in the past but that was because of something that was radically new. This phone does not have radically new technology. MagSafe charging isn't new and whatever Apple did, they clearly knew this phone would not work with some Qi chargers. People need to open up cases with Apple technical support or else they will continue to ignore people when they say this is a systemic problem with the new phones. Hold them accountable for the phones you paid a lot of money for.