My iPhone won't charge on my Macbook after updating to MacOS Ventura

Until a patch is released, I have found a temporary workaround for myself. I have an iPhone XR and a 2019 Macbook Pro with touchbar. When I connect my iPhone to my Macbook using a USB-C to Lightning cable, it doesn't charge of course.

However, if I:

1) Connect the iPhone to the Macbook Pro using a USB-C to lightning cable

2) Hard reboot the iPhone by holding down the power button and volume button

3) Unlock the iPhone when it reboots back up, leaving it connected to the Macbook Pro during this entire process

...my iPhone will begin to charge from my Macbook Pro.

Hopefully they fix this with a patch soon since it's obviously a software issues, but the above is working for me in the meantime.

Quick update, when using a USB-A lightning cable, with the USB-C to USB-A adaptor, the charge is fine! A bit lower than what it should be, but it charges fine at 1A (XS Max).

It only happens with the USB-C cables, I assume when trying to use the USB-C PD fast charge.

I'm hoping it can be fixed with a software update.

I took my iPhone & Macbook to Apple on Friday with an appointment.

Confirmed - the issue is isolated to iPhone XR.

Their iPhone XR didn't charge on my Macbook either, but the iPhone 14 they plugged in charged fine.

Apple staff told me to wait for an update, but we have no idea if it's actively being worked on or not.

@ AZsport115 Thanks for that info! Very helpful workaround.

I also found that charging using a USB-A to lightning cable, with a USB-A to USB-C dongle, also allows the phone to charge aswell. Seems counter intuitive, but it does work!

Using an iPhone XS Max.

If you hard reboot your iphone while plugged into the computer, it will charge. This suggests to me that it is either a software issue either on the iphone or computer.

Are other people finding that hard rebooting your iphone while keeping it plugged into your computer the entire time is resulting in your phone charging when it comes back on?

Seems like they solved it in iOS 16.1.1.

My phone is charging fast again

Yesterdays iOS 16。2 update fixrd IT，

In this morning, I updated my iphone(XS) to 16.3. The problem was fixed.

But, I don't know how long the status will keep.

I will keep tracking this issue.

Yes a hard reset/reboot gets it charging. I have to do this every time I plug in my phone and it is driving me crazy.

It does appear to be more towards to the iPhone 10 series. The issue is exactly the same with my friends XS Max, current drops to 0 when charging. But not on my iPhone SE which is stable at 1A (too old for fast charge).

I have tried an SMC reset too but no help. Same behaviour when dual-booted into Windows too. Apple support suggested I take the laptop in for diagnosis.

The issue wasn't there a few months ago, I feel it's a software issue, possibly the iPhone software itself rather than the Mac.

Has anyone experienced this issue on an iPhone other than X/XS/XR?

Have you tried and restarting the MacBook to see if the problem persists?

I talked to Apple support and apparently there weren't any case issues reported until now that I have talked to them. Best thing to do is to raise the issue with Apple. The more people that raise the issue, the better chances that they will do something about it.

Has anyone found a solution to this? I have the same issue. MacBook Pro 13" 2020 (Intel), iPhone XS Max. I used a USB-C power meter and noticed the voltage ranges from 5.1-5.24v, but the current keeps dropping to 0 every 10 seconds, for about 5 seconds, before going back up to ~1.7A briefly, before dropping to 0 again. After a while the current stops completely, no longer charging the phone but the phone has the charge icon. An iPhone SE is stable at 0.7A though but I don't think that's fast charge capable.

This doesn't happen with my work laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad) using the same cable, the charge is stable at 1.5A. Pretty sure the issue has appeared since the Ventura update too, it was fine before.

Bizarre thing for me however is,

1. I can charge my iPhone via the wall socket.
2. I can charge my iPhone via friends' Macbook.
3. I can charge friend's iPhone via my Macbook.
4. I can charge my camera, battery bank, airpods, magic mouse & magic keyboard via my Macbook.
5. I cannot charge my iPhone via my Macbook....

All I know is my new m1 iMac charged my iPhone 10 no problem for a year running Monterey. As soon as I upgraded to Ventura, the charging issues started. Whenever I tried to charge the iPhone, it was really slow and would completely stop charging at 30%. If I charged my phone when it still had 50% life, then it would completely charge to 100% fast. I also tried charging an iPhone 7 and iPhone 11 from my iMac and both charged fast to 100% no problem.