iPhone 12 pro won’t wirelessly charge

Sending my iPhone 12 pro in for repair before warrenty runs out. Hopefully Apple have found a hardware fix or will send me a new phone without this issue. In the begining it charged fine, now doesn’t charge wirelessly at all, anywhere. I wonder how this is not a bigger more enlightend problem, surely not everyone can be having this malfuncktion and why is that.

The supporter told me it was not a regular thing, and he had not encountered any others with this problem. Surely he is told to say this? I don’t know but now trying the last resort.

Mine is the iPhone 12, I have discovered that it only charges wirelessly when no case is attached, the case I use is thin rubber case yet it won’t work, I tried the same case with a iPhone 11 and it charges fine wirelessly so it’s not the case. The iPhone 12 does not seem to have enough power being generated through the back of the phone to work when a case is attached, there are YouTube videos demonstrating this same issue. Hopefully Apple can increase the wireless power detection of the phone via a software update. For the moment I don’t want to remove the phone case every time I want to charge it, so until a fix is generated I will go back to using lightning cable.

I posted previously about just switching to iPhone for the iPhone 12. And finding out all of my Qi wireless chargers didn’t work to charge my phone. So after several months of trying and no luck a friend of mine who works for apple support said they hadn’t even heard of the issue. And asked me to try the MagSafe charger and see if it does the same thing. And the MagSafe charger works every time with or without case. Where all the other chargers I have will not charge the phone.

just an interesting update that may be found helpful.

even though it doesn’t solve the issue of all of the wireless chargers I already had being worthless now.

Interesting, I was just watching a YouTube video about this very thing, it appears Apple have screwed all its customers by first selling the phone with no charging cable or brick and then modifying it’s own wireless charging capability to only work with its own proprietary MagSafe charger, that’s an extra $65 here is AU, wow... thanks very much Apple, a great way to deceive your customers into buying more of your products, I’m not very impressed.

I've seen that storyline advocated, but elsewhere on the thread, other users report that the problem occurs with the Apple proprietary chargers, not just the third party ones. Doesn't change the fact that Apple has issued an expensive product with what appears to be a widespread functional defect, but it doesn't seem that they've engineered it consciously to reject generic and less expensive accessories, to force us to buy their products exclusively.

Your probably right, it’s very frustrating that we can’t use our generic wireless charges and I’m reluctant to spend $65 on an Apple MagSafe charger to have the same issues. I just wish I had heard about this before I upgraded from my iPhone 11.

I think you missed my point - other iPhone 12 owners, on this thread, report that they have the same failure to accept the charge using the MagSafe chargers. It doesn't seem that it's only Anker, Belkin, etc. that are rejected when the flaw surfaces.

When I run into this issue, taking the case off doesn't help. It won't charge wirelessly. Currently I'm on day four without issues, with both MagSafe and Anker Qi. I guess it's only a matter of time before I have to reboot.

That won't solve it. I own a MagSafe charger, and my ~2 month-old 12 Pro Max has the same problem, and it's now 6 months after your post.

This is my 1st Apple product, and I'm beginning to wonder if I made a mistake leaving Android. Never had this kind of issue with any of those, and I had a BUNCH before going to the dark side.

I go back and forth between Android and iPhones. My current thinking is that Apple is generally easier to use and more stable. But my last LG phone before iPhone 12 never had the slightest issue with Qi chargers. LOL I guess. Hopefully they fix this issue soonish.

Careful what you watch on YouTube - there's a lot of garbage there.

I own an iphone 12 Pro Max, and it DID come with a Lightning/USB charging cable which works fine plugged into any USB port. No "brick" came with the phone.

But I bought a MagSafe charger, as well as a 3.0 charging "brick", and I have the same wireless charging issue as others post here. So, again, there's a lot of BS on YouTube - don't take it all to the bank.

I ordered a new wireless charged made by Baeseus, the site promoted it to work with the iPhone 12 including a case up to 8mm thick. It arrived today and still no luck, it works just fine with the case removed but no go when fitted. My wife’s iPhone 11 works perfect with or without a case, the same case I’m using. That’s 4 seperate wireless chargers I have tested now and all don’t work with this phone while a case is fitted. So back to square one using a cable.

My new 12 pro max does this with a new mophie 15watt charger tried the “up/dwn side button hold” reset, and it will charge, but later it quits and you have to do it again.

lightning cable works fine. I have the latest IOS. Having to do this reset everytime you need to charge the phone is bad.

Thank. I will try the hard reset

and I do hope apple fixes this charging issue before the next phone comes out. I bought the iPhone and after 1 month of this frustrating issue sent the phone back to Apple for exchange

the new phone only charge with certain Qi chargers it still does not charge with spple magsafe . I thought it may be the case but my daughter’s iPhone 11 with the same case works just fine.

the new phone is now doing the same thing and not charging witelessly again

I hope Apple fix this problem

I just bought a 2021 Ford Escape with a wireless charging pad and had this problem. I have tried the hard reset and as others have said it is a temporary solution. I then changed how I placed my iPhone 12 pro max. I saw that if placed it with the lightning port towards me AND the phone was unlocked it did not lose connection, even when it went into auto-lock. I'll admit this was sitting in my garage, but it seemed to work.