Mag Safe charging is not happening.

Seems to be a software issue. Happened to me two days ago and can't figure it out. I simply restarted my iPhone 12 Pro and Magsafe started working again. Apple needs to acknowledge and fix this though as I've seen multiple people experiencing this on their 12's.

Quick update to everyone. I've tested iOS 14.5 for a few days now and the issue with Magsafe draining the battery apparently is still there and I still need to reboot the phone to make it work. The only way the Magsafe charger works if I use a lower Wattage power adapter like a 12W adapter or just plugging directly into my MacBook's USB-C port. I hope this issue gets recognised by Apple soon and have it fixed in the next coming updates.

So I have just updated to iOS 14.5 and Magsafe charging started to work again so it's looking good so far. I've only tested it for over an hour, been removing it from Magsafe for a few minutes to discharge the battery and attach it again and it seems to be charging properly this time.

For me, too, my iPhone 12 Pro Max often won't charge on the MagSafe. What works is when I give the phone a hard power down and restart. Then it starts charging again. Will Apple fix this?

Spent an hour and 20 minutes on the phone with three different people and they decided that there must be something wrong with the actual made safe part of the charger so their solution was they couldn’t give me a replacement over the phone but I need to go to the Apple Store 20 miles away stand outside in the rain and wait my turn till my appointment came up for a stupid $40 part who’s the idiot here

Try hard-reset while the magsafe is attached to the iPhone, it will work.

But it will stop working after you try to charge again later..

I don't have an authentic Magsafe charger.. I have two, they worked fine until I updated to iOS 14.4

This and other forums have people with both authentic and non-authentic chargers and that's not the source of the probelm I think.

@darcytt9 it's most likely that your iMac's USB A port's power output is limited and cannot be used to charge via its port. There are tweaks to get around this although should be done at your own risk.

I also use a USB-C to a regular USB A adapter to plug my Magsafe into a 12W Apple adapter and it works just fine there. It doesn't show the Magsafe animation and most likely charges up to 7.5W wirelessly.

Mine stopped working last week. I even got a new magsafe charger thinking the charger died. Nope my phone won't charge on it. Only being plugged in works. I have the iphone 12 pro max.

I have an authentic MagSafe charger with the correct power adapter. It worked great until the 14.4 update. Now nothing. A hard reboot does not event help.

The MagSafe charger has a usb-c connector which is a problem as I do not have a usb-c charger, so purchased an adaptor usb male to usb-c female. Pluging it into my iMac it says mac does not support and power request is too high. So does that mean I have to purchase another part from apple to make it work and what guarantee is there that it will work if I buy an apple adaptor as I see lots of people are having problems with these chargers?

This is not a good answer to keep rebooting all the time to get it working only to have to do it all over