iPhone 12 pro won’t wirelessly charge

Agree with Parker2005 below. It is now 4 Dec - so evidently the software has not yet been fixed - disappointing given it is an Apple not a Huawei product

It's kind of tricky to define "made."

The iPhone 12 family is assembled in China, using a wide variety of components made around the world, and Chinese components comprise less than 5% of the parts.

Here is a parts origin breakdown from a third-party site:

I am experiencing the same issue with my iPhone12 Pro. It was working fine since Saturday but will not charge on any wireless pad now. My girlfriend’s iPhone X works perfectly fine on the charging pads we have.

Same issue. Mine started after having issues setting up AppleCar play that required multiple hard resets. Wouldn’t wirelessly charge overnight or this AM on multiple stations. A hard reset fixed the issue here but not sure if that will only be temporary.

I am having this problem as well, on multiple different charge pads. There may be a problem doing wired charging as well, but I'm not sure of the charger block that I was given ("people drop them off") so I have ordered new ones. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you. Will try this. Spoke to apple rep this morning before googling and finding this thread. They didn’t say one word about this being widespread. Wasted time trying unrelated fixes and asking Qs about chargers. Apple must do more to communicate and address the reality of this issue. ETA on update?

None of us work for Apple so we would have no clue when the next update rolls out. I believe the next update is in late stage beta, but it will roll out when it rolls out is the best anyone here can tell you.

Thanks lobsterghost. Not everyone hangs out here. I’m a stranger in a strange land and I apologize if I offended you (not really, but I’m being nice).

i can’t find the name of the first person who responded, but thank you (for real). You were helpful without being condescending.

You did not offend me. But I gave you an honest answer. None of us work for Apple. We don't know when Apple plans to drop iOS updates. If one of us knew, we'd be prohibited from publishing it as well and the forum administrators would remove our answer and let us know we were in violation of forum rules). If somehow my answer rubbed you the wrong way, it most definitely was not my intention (I'm being nice too:-)

This might not be a software issue. You'd be better off opening a support ticket with Apple to at least have it officially documented. I did with Apple and they told me to exchange it. I am exchanging mine for a new one that should be here on Wednesday. I wanted to make sure that I could exchange it during the official exchange period. Otherwise it would be treated as a repair down the road and you might get a refurbished unit as a repair.

If this is a software bug then Apple knows about it. What is shady is this might drive people to buy a MagSafe charger during the period where the fix is unavailable. I would not put it past Apple to do something like this. They already didn't include the 20W USB-C charging brick which a lot of people don't already have. They also got caught dumbing down the performance and batter life on the iPhone 6 and 7 when they released the 8 and X.

LRAraiza wrote:

Same issue. I have a Nanami Fast Charge stand that worked flawlessly with my previous iPhone 11Pro but with the new 12Pro it will not charge at all, have to use a lightening cable.

What happened in terms of Wireless charging after Force Restarting (not restarting, FORCE RESTARTING) your phone as has been suggested and shown to work in this thread for others?

We have iPhone 12 and I'll be ordering 12 Pro Max when pre-orders open up. The first day, the 12 didn't want to wireless charge. I did a Forced Restart (not a soft restart) and it's been charging normally on a wireless charger ever since.

Yes it does charge wirelessly if you go through the steps for a Forced Restart but as others have noted if you take it off the charger and use the phone in any manner and then place it back on the charger the problem returns, it does not charge wirelessly and you have to repeat the process.

I agree that they aren't "officially" on here like other IT vendors are on their community or knowledge-base sites but they certainly read these forums and know about this.

The best thing to do is actually to contact Apple Support within 30 days of purchase (or your wireless provider if that is where you got it). That way this is documented as a problem as clearly this phone is not compatible with all Qi chargers as advertised. The feedback site is not documentation of a problem.

I just installed 14.2 and my new iPhone 12Pro still will not charge on my Anker PowerWave 7.5 stand. The charger worked flawlessly with with my iPhone XS, but the 12 Pro starts to charge and stops 1 second later. I was hoping this new ios release would fix it, but no such luck. Force restarts didn't work as many have suggested.