iPhone 12 pro won’t wirelessly charge

Been fighting and learning about this since my iPhone 12 Pro arrived, a few days post-launch. Some observations:

1) The more apps are open, the less it seems to want to wirelessly charge

2) It doesn't matter if I'm using an Aukey, Anker, or HP Qi charger, the outages occur regardless

3) Closing all apps, then powering it off and back on, invariably restores the wireless charging function

Seems like some sort of firmware fault, annoying but not fatal. I'm not inclined to pop for Magsafe chargers, and there are reports in this string that iPhone 12 variants sometimes don't charge on them, either.

Not what I've come to expect from Apple, but not enough to drive me away. Never any problem charging with a lightning cable.

Lobsterghost1, I bought that exact charger and it too will not charge my iPhone 12 Mini unless the phone is positioned 1/4" or so higher to better align the charging coils. Raise the phone a little and all the various vertical chargers we have in various rooms at home and at our office will very reliably work. I cannot speak for any phone but the 12 mini and SE-2020.

I linked the charger above, BUT.......it may NOT work with Otterbox. You should reach out to Otterbox and ask them for guidance on chargers which will work with their cases, which are thicker by design.

There's a difference between the output of the charger and the output of the charging brick which powers the charger. What is the output of the charging brick (the power brick which plugs into the wall). This is the issue with a lot of older chargers. They don't put out enough power to the coils in the chargers to charge the phone.

You can buy Apple's new MagSafe charger, but it won't work with iPhone 12 unless you buy a 20W power brick for the charger.

So without having to reset my iPhone 12 Pro, I've been able to get it to charge on a wireless charging pad (for now, anyway). I realized that I had been using a 5v 1a adapter to plug my charging pads into the wall, but what I needed was a 5v 2a adapter. Now the phone is charging fine (hoping it doesn't crap out on me later). Could it really be this simple? I have a feeling that if it were Apple would just tell people this, so maybe this is wishful thinking. But for now, it seems to be working.

No, it's a iOS/firmware fault. Happens to ours (both iPhone 12 Pros) intermittently. Usually, closing all the apps, then power-cycling it, will restore the wireless charging capability. It would be nice if Apple could fix the problem, but that doesn't appear to be as much of a priority as sparring with Facebook, for them. After all, the devices only cost a thousand dollars or so.

I had the same problem with my iPhone 12 Pro and alarm clock. Do you use an adapter to plug the clock into the wall? If so, be sure it’s a 5V2a adapter, not a 5V1a. Once I switched everything started working fine.

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.

Got sick of waiting for an update so I send the phone in for repair. Just got it back and now wireless charging works again (obviously). The apple certified repairman told me they changed the whole back part, and only reused camera and front panel.

My point is here I don’t think this is somthing an update is going to take care of since the way to fix it is a major hardware replace and repair. I’ll let you know if it starts to malfunction again. Best of luck to all of you.

Finally, a new development!!!

After loosing hope when I posted here my complaint, I gave up and for a few weeks I discarded my wireless car “MagicMount” charger which hooks to the car vent!

Last week I checked on it again and noticed that after I stripped out its protective plastic protection cover, it started to charge now without any interruption whatsoever!!

As I mentioned, the one 12 we have didn't charge wirelessly after set up. I Force Restarted it and a week later it's continued to work just fine on the wireless charger every night since.

It works for me now that I’m using a 5V 2a adapter (instead of the 5V 1a I had been using). It’s only been a few days, though.

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'm convinced it's the placement of the Magsafe in the phone. We didn't have this hardware limitation with previous model phones. iPhone 12 is a new design. It's not that it won't play with Qi chargers. It's that many Qi chargers were never designed with Magsafe in mind, which I'm sure is the case with most chargers with only one charging plate as opposed to dual. As soon as I replaced my older chargers with dual plate charging and higher output QC3.0 bricks, there are simply no issues charging on the new ones.

One temporary solution for the iPhone 12 is to turn the phone off and put it on the charger. In fact, this also worked for my iPhone 11 pro. Therefore, one last time: I just want to state that this issue affects different iPhone models.