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Iphone 8 plus wireless charging problem

I have an Iphone 8 plus on IOS 11.0.1 now Whenever my phone get full charged on wireless charging, it always showed recharging indicator and beep sound (that seems like disconnect and reconnect). This only happen when my phone fully charged. I have tested out in 3 pads and get same result (doesn’t happen on my galaxy s8 - i use samsung, and nokia original qi wireless charging pad) . Any solution for this?

iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 11

Posted on Sep 26, 2017 4:09 PM

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Posted on Oct 1, 2017 8:12 PM

From what I read, the phone will limit charging after 80% if it senses that the batter is getting too warm. It does this to preserve the life of the battery.How to wirelessly charge your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus - Apple Support

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Dec 10, 2017 4:27 PM in response to damcevski

Probably because your Samsung QI charger was designed to fast charge a Samsung phone, not an iPhone. I'm afraid many so called fast chargers may not fast charge an iPhone. I own three Seneo Fast Chargers. After communicating with Seneo directly, I was informed that they will not Fast Charge an iPhone and they will be releasing in the near future Fast Chargers that will work on iPhone. This is nothing more than a compatibility issue with the multitude of QI chargers on the market and there's no way Apple can build something that will work with each one of them equally. We have to remember, Apple just released iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X. And then they opened it up to Fast Charging with iOS 11.2. But most of us are using aftermarket chargers that were in reality designed to charge Samsung phones and the companies who made these chargers didn't have access to Apple proprietary information about the new iPhones. Now we're seeing in many (not all) situations, they may only be able to charge our phones at the 5w speed.

Dec 13, 2017 4:06 AM in response to HKfoo

I had a similar problem. The charging would start and stop frequently when I wirelessly charged my iPhone 8+, (11.2).


I changed out the power supply for a third party 29watt power adapter, and the problem went away.


As Qi is not an apple protocol, the use of high priced apple products is not required.


Thanks god. I am getting very tired tof that rippoff.

Dec 14, 2017 2:12 AM in response to mrjonathan

I am using a Belkin F8M747bt Qi charger (not the expensive one from the Apple store) in combination with an iPhone X (iOS 11.2.1). I have also the issue that when the iPhone is fully charged, the Belkin keeps indicating that it is charging (flashing green led), while it should go to steady green. Also the battery indicator on the Phone is still containing the flash symbol at 100%.


The Belkin manual states:

Qi device is detected.

Solid – fully charged.

NOTE: Your device must support a full battery communication to the base station for the LED to turn solid. Otherwise, check the Full battery indicator on your smartphone.

​Blinking – charging in progress.


My conclusion is that the current iOS versions are not supporting this communication (yet) or the phone is failing to detect the correct level to send this command to the basestation. Other Phones are probably doing this right already.


I hope it will be solved by an iOS update. Even it is just a little bit annoying.

Dec 16, 2017 3:12 PM in response to igdehaan

I can confirm that it is likely a problem with iOS at this point, since I've tried several different QI chargers that all seem to show this issue but only with iPhone. It's odd and happens infrequently so it is very hard to pin down to a certain amount of time after full charge, for example. Tough when your phone wakes you up from the night stand, even with do not disturb on! The only solution seems to be to flip the hardware switch to quiet on the side of the phone when charging. I suspect that apple's QI driver isn't fully baked and will improve with time.

Apr 13, 2018 5:54 PM in response to HKfoo

I have problems with a couple of different chargers but I see to have it working OK now.


I have an old charger that came with my Nexus 4 phone. The iPhone would inidicate it was charging when on the pad but wouldn't charge.


A second charger is a home made one with electronics I bought on Amazon. It works fine on my Android phones. With the iPhone, the charging would connect and disconnect constantly like other have described.


Someone suggested charging with the phone turned off, which actually works. Oddly, after I turn the phone off, it turns itself on once I place it on the charger, but then successfully charges to 100%.

Iphone 8 plus wireless charging problem

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