Apple Watch 7 and Third-Party Chargers.

I am having this issue as well. I have a 3-in-1 charger and recently upgraded from an Apple Watch 3 to an Apple Watch 7. My iPhone 12 Pro still charges fine on my third-party charger, but my Apple Watch 7 does not. When I put the watch on the charging dock, the watch acknowledges that it is on a charger and the charging icons appear on the watch face. After about a minute or two, those charging icons go away and it is just the normal watch face. Hopefully Apple can address this in the next Apple Watch software update.

That’s just a joke! The 3rd party charger, quite expensive I might add, worked just fine until Apple updated the software, now it’s just a pile of junk, that when you put the expensive 7 series on it, just recycles thru the power options, draining the battery.

why cant Apple just reinstate the charging capability so all the folk who bought 3rd party chargers are able to use them.

This is really not great customer service and to be honest I’m re-evaluating my choice to buy Apple products.

if you can’t rely on the product working in a normal manner then quite frankly we’ve bought the wrong product !!

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I've read where the new Apple Watch 7 may not work with 3rd party chargers. Some have seen a problem with the Apple charger. It is not known what is going to happen with that, just watch the Apple website or other news for anything being released by Apple.

Have you found out anything please because I have still got the problem.

It is definitely the 8.3 that did it and most people are just going out and buying a Usb c charger to go with the charger lead nobody had to use until 8.3 on 13th December.

many thanks if you can help

I haven't heard anything. My hope is to just get enough posts/comments related to this issue so that Apple knows to address it in their next Apple Watch software update. I doubt this was deliberate since they're still selling third party chargers on the website. I enjoy the 3-in-1 charger stands because the get rid of the clutter on the nightstand with needing multiple chargers. Hopefully Apple can send a software update soon.

This is not limited to Series 7. I have a Series 6 and as soon as I upgraded to 8.3 the same thing started happening to me.

I assume they will fix it eventually but could care less if it is any time soon or not as they want us all to run out and buy apple chargers LOL

I contacted Apple about this and they blamed it on the charger (which I bought from them) and told me to contact Mophie. Mophie said it was Apples last update that caused it. So I’m skeptical that Apple will fix it.

It’s the Watch IOS. It’s a known issue with Apple; they keep saying they are fixing it with the next update, and then it doesn’t work. For anyone who doesn’t want to have a series of separate chargers for phone earbuds and watch cluttering their table, it is beyond aggravating. Maybe they’ll finally fix it with the next update.

Unfortunately I have a similar issue with my series 7 watch, which prior to updates was working fine with my 3-1 nightstand charger. Now it just recycles through several displays and eats the entire battery in a matter of hours, my iPhone 13 still chargers as does the AirPods. The watch simply doesn’t charge. VERY FRUSTRATING!! I really would appreciate Apple getting their act together and resolving this issue.

This situation led to my husband today recycling his 2 Apple Watches and getting a new one. He went to get his two dead Watches fixed at the Apple Store today after they suddenly stopped charging on his 3-in-1 charging station (which was an Xmas gift). The Apple “genius” said he couldn’t get either Watch to start. Blamed it on the third-party 3-in-1 charger. (!) The Phone and iPods are still charging. Only the Watches failed after an update. This is very disappointing! We don’t need more clutter with various chargers! It feels like a ripoff!

+1 here.

I bought one third party charge and didn't work, bought more 2 (usb c and usb a) and same problem.

Using: original apple charger, baseus charger and other charges I have here. NOTHING works.

AW7 just charge with the official charger that came in the box......

I have a two week old Apple watch series seven that charged correctly on a third party 3 in 1 charger until I updated to watchIO8.5.1. Now the watch repeatedly wakes up while charging. I've returned two 3 in 1 chargers to Amazon but I'm really not happy with using the in the box charger (plus the purchase of a C type block) and another wire on my night table. Really disappointed with Apple.

I MAY have solved this issue. Some additional research makes me think that the Apple watch has a very temperature sensitive charging circuit. If the watch goes above 30C the watch will disconnect from the charger. Once the watch cools to 28C it will reconnect to the charger and you'll have the screen light up and get a ding. The suggestion is to turn off the sound on the watch when charging overnight in your bedroom. I tested this during the day and it seemed to work. I think I will also put the watch into theater mode as well as turning off the sound. It's worth a try.