iPhone 12 Pro Wireless Charging Issues

I did not read all of the comments but the problem is not your wireless charger it is the phone. If it was the charger it would impact all phones. My phone stopped working yesterday with my Belkin charger and my brand new Mag Safe charger on my iPhone 12 Pro. Rebooting fixes temporarily but not for long.

My wife and I both got the 12 pro max yesterday and the wireless charging doesn't work in either one of our cars. We both have 2021 Kias with wireless chargers built in. Hoping this gets fixed soon.

I have a temporary solution that at least works for me and hopefully some others. I have the Anker Qi Stand and an iPhone 12 Mini. It won't charge if I just place it on the stand. But if I position it about an inch up the slope of the stand and hold it there for a few seconds, charging will start. Then I can slide it down to the normal resting position and it keeps charging.

That's a bit annoying, so for now I just put a 1" piece of wood at the bottom of the slope, to keep the iPhone positioned a bit higher in what seems to be the prime charging spot.

I’m having the same issue on my iPhone 12 Pro; no charging indicator unless I reboot the phone. BUT, I think the phone might actually be charging; it’s just not reporting it.

My iPhone said I was at 72% battery 3 hours ago. And for the last 3 hours, I’ve had my phone on a MagSafe mount using Maps/Uber. I don’t get a charging indicator when I attach the MagSafe, but my phone is still at 72%.

I got curious and checked the Battery settings, and discovered a perfect horizontal line for the last 18 hours. The battery hasn’t changed by a single percent since 5am, even though I’ve been using it on and off the charger.

TL;DR - It seems the problem isn’t that MagSafe won’t charge, but that the iPhone doesn’t realize it’s charging.

It’s definitely not a hardware issue on the iPhone, nor an issue with the wireless charger.

Next time the issue arises, don’t reboot the phone. Instead, look at the battery percent, use the phone for a while, and see if it doesn’t go down. If it’s like mine, the battery percent will remain the same regardless of whether you’re wirelessly charging or not.

Perhaps you’re right when it comes to the MagSafe charger, but I don’t think that’s the case with other Qi chargers. Two of my chargers have small lights to indicate charging, and those lights are not lighting up when my 12 Pro Max is on them.

I for one have contacted Apple who suggested I get phone replaced in store. Problem is the stores don’t have any as they are on back order. All phones were to fulfil orders.

Even people who had phones replaced in the first few days say the Qi charging still isn’t working.

How do we properly escalate this with Apple if talking to Apple support isn’t raising it up to them?

Same problem here, brand new 12PRO simply doesnt charge on both mophie mat charger. As suggested rebooting helps just for a little while then it goes on and off. An italian site address this matter to the new release of IOs but also to some hardware component. It is also true Apple officially said mag safe charge are optimized to better charge your phone ....

Anyhow the solution that get the phone charging process lasting longer is to place the phone on tha mat when the display is on.

If paused or on block mode it will simply not charge at all.

let's hope in patch that will fix the issue at the soonest.

Ciao

I'm having the same problem with my iPhone 12 Pro Max that I picked up on Friday. There was an update to IOS 14.2 that was supposed to fix this problem but it still exist. If I reboot and take my phone out of the case it will start charging then stop after 15-20 minutes.

I'm seeing precisely the same issue with my Pro Max that I received yesterday. I have a Belkin charger that works for my older phones and my iPad, but it does nto work for this iPhone 12 Pro Max. A little annoyed, but I can live with the cable until we get a new update from Apple. It's clearly a software issue.

Knock on wood, but ever since I did the volume up, down, then power off- it seems to work with my wireless charger. I keep wondering if the new 12’s need a 15watt charger??? Some of these older wireless chargers are only 10 at the most. The charger I have is a 10watt, and it takes all night to charge it, but it does get the job done. And I do have a thicker Otter box case.

I’m having the same problems, I have charging pads that worked great with my 11Pro Max, that now work sporadically with my new 12 Pro Max. I woke up this morning to a half charged phone this morning. I now will plug the cord in every night until this is resolved. I need my phone fully charged in the morning for work. Thank goodness I had a battery charger with me today.

After spending quite a while with Apple support not being able to fix my iPhone 12 Pro Max which stopped wirelessly charging I fixed it. Once I turned off battery optimization my iPhone 12 pro max now charges wirelessly.

I was very disappointed that none of my FOUR Qi chargers worked, representing three different companies. However, all is not lost, I tried this method and now they all work. Your chargers are fine, even the phone is OK, but since so many of us seem to have this problem, there’s definitely a glitch somewhere.

Do this exact method...don’t do the “normal” power on/off of the phone.

1. Press and quickly release volume up button
2. Then press and quickly release volume down button
3. Then press and KEEP HOLDING side power button (keep holding past the swipe to shut down) until you see the Apple Logo, then let go.

Again, this worked for me and everything’s fine now.

Good luck, everyone. This was frustrating, but it’s all good now, especially since my magsafe charger hasn’t even shipped yet, so I was stuck with lightening cables. Still waiting on USBC, but that’s a whole different conversation.

Don’t do the power on, power off restart. That didn’t work for me either. This is called a forced reset, you will lose some cookie/login data but it fixed the problem permanently for me (few days running now). Follow the directions exactly and hopefully it will work for you too.