iPhone 12 pro won’t wirelessly charge

I may take it to the Apple Store, fortunately just a ten minute drive, the next time it malfunctions. No sense going until the Qi quits, again. But, then, I have to make an appointment, or else go and line up for who knows how long. I'll weigh the pros and cons, once the malfunction resurfaces, as I'm sure it will.

Regrettably, BarryNG, it's not that clear cut. We have people on this board reporting that theirs even fail to charge on Apple's own MagSafe chargers. My experience, admittedly with non-Apple equipment, and power bricks that only meet the original Qi standard, not Apple's faster-charging specs, is that they all work much of the time, but, when the fault surfaces, none of them do. I do get occasional lapses that can be quickly corrected by sliding the device on the pad or stand, but that's not a panacea - when the problem surfaces, you can spend all day looking for the "sweet spot", and get no results.

Bought 2 new wireless chargers. ONR fir home. One for office. Both for my 12MP.

lack confidence phone is charging. Indeed overnight I get a 68% charge, max.

Can Apple wake up from its slumber and help us. These are expensive items of kit with huge profit margin, put that uplift into research for the BIG problems customers experience on after sales failures.

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Maybe I am reading too much into "Just got a MagSafe case and charger" but that implies to me the magnets are positioning the phone exactly at the right place with respect to the charger and the power supply is of sufficient capacity. That blows my theory all to ****, based on my experience, that the phones must be precisely positioned on the charger with a healthy power supply to make them work consistently reliably.

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.

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.

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

Even forced restart doesn’t get it to work with my car wireless. It worked a week ago. Not now.

I don’t show iOS 14.5 available yet.

Their online “geniuses” act like they’ve never heard of this, and suggest yet another brand of wireless charger. Like five different types aren’t sufficient.

I’ve already made an appointment, and had them work on it, in person. Still no resolution.

When you say car wireless, you mean you can't get your phone to charge on the wireless charging pad in your car? You simply may not be able to get that to work, depending on when the car's wireless charging pad was designed. Most cars never anticipated the new design of where the charging coil is exactly in iPhone 12. I have a 2019 Mercedes Benz E Class and my iPhone 12 Pro Max is now too large to even fit on the charging pad at all. But I can still plug it in to USB, so I just don't really worry about not being able to wirelessly charge in car. There's nothing Mercedes can do about it.