iPhone 14 Pro - Wireless Charging not working with slim standard case and standard QI charger

In our household, we own iPhone 14 Pro Max and iPhone 14 Pro. The 14 Pro charges fine on the charging mat in our Mercedes E450. Sadly, the 14 Pro Max is simply too large to fit on the charging plate. If your 14 Pro won't charge in your car, it's the car, not the phone.

The iPhone 14 Pro also charges without issue on properly designed Qi chargers; your assertion is provably incorrect (as is your assertion about past iPhones charging on "all existing" Qi chargers; design issues by charger makers has been an ongoing problem.)

I’m incredibly frustrated as I just purchased iPhone 14 Pro for my partner and I. It was our first time getting the latest model and was a huge splurge. My mother bought us each clock radio/wireless charger for each of us for Christmas. We can’t use them! I’ve even tried removing my case to see if it helps. It doesn’t. I can get it to connect for a moment or two if I apply pressure but then it stops.

Note again that this issue is not the fault of the phone, but of bad assumptions made by the company designing the third-party charger; many flat or puck-type chargers work just fine with the 14/14 Pro/14 Pro Max, but it's impossible to supply a list of chargers that do and do not work.

It's not an opinion when you've provided proof that what others are saying (the bump prevents iPhone 14 models from charging with Qi chargers) is demonstrably untrue for well-designed chargers.

I've posted photos of it working with chargers that date to the iPhone X, have referenced flat table chargers that work and have also linked to the Qi consortium specifications for charging.

We have a Mercedes E400 with a flat charger built in the car and our 14 Pro charges just fine on it laying flat. You cannot suggest ALL iPhone 14 models won't charge on flat chargers from the past. Because you haven't tested ALL of them. You can say your charger doesn't charge, however and that would be fair.

Then complain to your automaker; it’s not Apple’s issue at all as they did nothing wrong.

Instead your automaker (or whomever they bought the charging mat from) did not properly design their charger to meet standards.

alienlovesong wrote:

Of course it’s partially Apple‘s fault. They keep changing their designs so that you have to buy new accessories every time they change something. So, Apple is not blameless here.

Apple is completely free to design their products however they wish; in fact the applicable specs do not specify the location of the charging coils for just that reason.

You don't have to buy new accessories if they were properly designed in the first place; I had been using a Qi charger that I purchased for use with my iPhone 8 for several years until I decided I wanted a MagSafe puck and bought one.

That means that same Qi charger has worked with the iPhone 8, X, 11 Pro Max, 12 Pro Max, 13 Pro Max and now 14 Pro Max, all of which I've owned and have used it with. (I still carry it when I travel.)

I just prefer the MagSafe pucks.

Verizon sent me a free wireless charging pad that works. I have to set my phone on it just right though. I thought it didn’t work at first. I almost took it out of the Otter Box case.

Contact Belkin if it doesn't work.

I really hoped it’s a problem of cases… following the discussion it seems not… Will definitely now also return my 14 pro. No way I will change all my equipment, also it would not even be possible inside the car.