iOS 10 update charging issue

Under what "real word physics" & electrical science does this make sense to anyone?

Apple & their devices can "tell" voltage drop across a cable to the sensitivity needed to determine one cable from another, or to factor out connection resistance? That is absolute BS. An iOS device cannot even measure the voltage drop from the Lightning port to the circuitry & battery of the phone itself.

I can use an official iPhone charger to charge my iPad (albeit slowly) and my iPad "block" to charge my iPhone (quickly) and the interchange of these two chargers through "certified" short or longer Apple Lightning cable would impact voltage loss at sensitivies that could not be measured by the device "to know" whether either the charger or the cable is certified Apple.

Unfortunately, direct measurement of the resistance of the cable is complicated. This is because of the low resistance of the assembly itself – below 2 ohms – and resistance contributions of the connectors themselves which may make it less easy to quantify the cable resistance accurately.

http://goughlui.com/2014/10/01/usb-cable-resistance-why-your-phonetablet-might-b e-charging-slow/

I don't know how Apple "causes" charging issues, but my guess is they have secretly included code as part of their "planned obsolence" program to get older devices out of the market.

I am using aftermarket but MFi certified cables with no issues.

If your device will not charge try the steps in this Apple article:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201569

Hi. With iOS 10, the charge voltage/current monitoring is more sensitive. It actually is charging, only not at the optimum speed. Your extension probably adds too much voltage drop, and the Apple cable is also pretty thin. FWIW I'm using a 10 ft Lightning cable from Walmart, which still works normally, but it's much thicker than the Apple one.

Yes. But my iPad Air came with the 12 W. Do you maybe have an Air 2? But I don't think the higher rating will overcome your cable problem.

None of my USB devices work after the upgrade to iOS 10 either. My wife's phone and iPad work because she never upgraded. I should never have upgraded. Getting. Really sick of Apple's arrogance and as much as I like their products I think I am finally done with them - not that they care....

Same here, but with the normal cables and OEM charger. happens on three of my iPads now after upgrading to iOS 10. It didn't happen right away, and it does charge despite the "not charging" message.

Strangely, the iPad I'm typing this on now was exhibiting the issue the last few days but not today. Only thing I did was use it to about 50% battery and plugged it in.

IT has to be something with iOS 10. I expect a fix.

My iPad Air began charging slowly after upgrading to iOS 10. After seeing a message appear over & over last night "Accessory Not Supported" I started to suspect my 6' Anker Lightning cable I've been using the past 3 months without issue. Swapped back to the Apple cable with no change. Battery has since died and it won't charge at all. The Genius Bar could only offer me a replacement iPad for $249. My iPad is only 2 years old! Seems very wrong of Apple!! Extremely dissapointed in them to allow a bug such as this that renders your device useless pushed on the unexpecting thru an upgrade. Very careless! Even if a fix is in the 10.1 update, I can't even power my device to fix it. Nice move!

Strangely it stopped happening. It may return, but I'm not going to worry about it too much as it appears that the devices charge regardless of what it says.