Put my iPhone 13 on my brand new MagSafe charging puck last night when I went to bed and I woke up to a dead phone. Anyone else have any issues with wireless charging?
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My phone also didn’t charge last night via MagSafe. I noticed when I went to bed that the phone was showing that it was charging (lightning bolt) despite not being plugged into anything. I had to restart to get it charging.
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That’s really weird.
I actually have 3 new components so not sure which one to blame. I have a new wall outlet too that has usbc plug built in. Since I only have the one MagSafe charger I don’t have any way to test each component independently though.
One of the benefits of the MagSafe is it should guarantee a good connection and hopefully avoid most issues with regular Qi chargers.
I have the magsafe charger and this one I got from Amazon in my car and they both charged my 12 PM and 13 PM just fine.
To the OP, did you see a circle thingy when you put your 13 when you hooked it to your magsafe? That will let you know that's it's charging. It's either the magsafe or your phone that's not working correctly.
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To the OP, did you see a circle thingy when you put your 13 when you hooked it to your magsafe? That will let you know that's it's charging. It's either the magsafe or your phone that's not working correctly.
So i picked up my Pro yesterday from Comcast took it home and used it a bit and then put it on a older 10W charger i had from an iPad i think. It charged from 60% to 98%. When i went to bed, it was i thought in the 70's, plugged it in to a 5w apple charger and heard the charging noise. Woke up 6 hours later and it was at 68%. It never charged at all. WTH!
Been using 13PM since launch day. I have it inside a spigen case. I always charge overnight on a 2 year old Samsung wireless pad/stand (duo setup). To my surprise this past Tuesday night when I got inside my car to go to work noticed battery logo on apple car play was low. Phone did not charge that night even though I heard the charging sound and light on charging pad was blue which means charging. I have been monitoring it since and no issues. I do remember this happened to me 1-2 times in the 11 months that I used the 12PM.
My friend’s 13 Pro is a dud with charging too. Some cables and adapters work, others don’t. All these powe supplies and cables work perfectly on my 13 Pro. He’s getting a replacement of course!
I put it on the same 5W charger I've been charging my 8+ with overnight and nothing. Really Strange, i guess this is Apples way of getting you to upgrade your charger.
If the connection isn’t secure inside the lightning port or especially if a third party lightning cable is used, the phone can ding, alerting that it’s charging but soon not charge at all. Not uncommon with non Apple cables.
I have no trouble at all charging my 13 Pro with the old 5w brick, it just takes longer to charge.
Yeah, Apple cable and Apple charger so idk. I went to the Apple store today and one floor guy said it was normal and another said no not normal, make a genius bar appt...nearest one was 6 hours out so i left.
I have a MagSafe charger on my nightstand, charge my 13 Pro on it overnight every night. Haven't had a problem yet, I just make sure I see the MagSafe logo pop up on the screen and the 'charging' lightning bolt inside the battery icon.
Prior to MagSafe I never had an issue with my Qi charger either (on my 13 Pro and/or my previous XS), unless I didn't position the phone on it correctly. It had a small LED that lit up to show it was charging, as long as I made sure that was lit it worked perfectly every time.
Prior to MagSafe I never had an issue with my Qi charger either (on my 13 Pro and/or my previous XS), unless I didn't position the phone on it correctly. It had a small LED that lit up to show it was charging, as long as I made sure that was lit it worked perfectly every time.
iPhone probably went to do some heavier background processes (spotlight indexing, machine learning peoples faces, syncing with iCloud data, etc etc) and bumped the chargers limits....possibly. iPads do it all the time...
You need a very high quality cord as short as you can get it with a 5 watt brick. We are really pushing it with a 5 watt charger. While it should be fine it wouldn't take much to push the charger past its limits causing the iPhone to disconnect from it.
This is a picture of a USB tester that you can emulate a load on the charger to see how it responds. Using a brand new still packaged Apple Lightning cable with Apples 5w brick I can only get to 4.7 watt before the power supply shuts off on its internal safety.
The iPhone 13 can easily charge at 12 watt with 5 volts. In my attempt to try to get to 5 watt voltage dropped WAY out of spec to 3.78 and the current was WAY over spec 1.25 (vs its rated 1) this is all due to the resistance in the wire. The iPhone would have shut off its charging at 4.7-4.8 volts to protect itself from low voltage conditions.
So realistically at 5 volts and 1 amp I would have been around 4 watt at the lightning port. Then there is ~85% loss due to the overhead from charging a battery. So I would expect ~3.5 watt from those 5 watt bricks in to the battery even on a decent cable.
This is just a wild ass guess though. Its happened to me one time with my iPhone 11 Pro Max but it was because the cord was the slightest touch from breaking behind my nightstand. Personally I wouldn't want to go below a 10 watt (5 volt 2 amp/2000mA) charger on a newer device.