We could only wish... maybe his voice would be less annoying. He would still come up with something Tim Cool did to shame him lol...
Long live MKBHD!!! Wish he would take lessons from his “friend”
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Some iPhone XS and XS Max Units Won't Start Charging While Screen is Turned Off [Fix Coming in iOS 12.1]
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We could only wish... maybe his voice would be less annoying. He would still come up with something Tim Cool did to shame him lol...
Long live MKBHD!!! Wish he would take lessons from his “friend”
I expect the same excellence from Tim that he has provided ever since Steve passed the leadership of Apple to him. It's a bug in a newly released, extremely complex, piece of high tech, so get over it.
Cause it’s all about profits
https://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/
Apple is not about to jump to a much better standard like USB-C and loose $$ from accessory Profits .
Lightning cable will stay , apple is too greedy to give away MFI profits..... especially under Cook.
Its a glitch that will get fixed, even the most expensive hardware will not be perfect at the start line.
People love to make a big deal the second a minor inconvenience happens to an iPhone and it becomes a “gate”. Like this whole selfie camera crap. These people who feel the need to bash Apple and to start a gate movement seriously need to reconsider their goals in life.
Oh no! It's won't charge with screen turned off gate!! Apple is DOOMED!!! Steve would never approve...My next phone's gonna be an Android from Dollar General. 
This!!!!!!! I couldn’t have said it better myself
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No, it’s not about profits. I’ll quote a smart guy here, Harald Striepe, who worked at Apple:
A lot of these answers reflect an incomplete understanding of the Lightning connector system.
Desktops by their nature need to support open standards. The recent trend has been going from single protocol (Firewire, USB 2.0) to multi protocol systems with growth potential. They promise a broader range of use cases and higher speeds allowing the peripheral makers to choose a range of performance and cost trade offs. USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 is the latest incarnation. With the latest standards, current support is high enough to permit the replacement of a dedicated charge port location with another general IO port.
Lightning was developed as a proprietary serial system that is compact, resilient, and able to support a broadening and indeterminate set of use cases.
The system does that by using a standard, reversible connector that does not have an enclosing ground plane like micro-USB and others. The advantage is a simpler and more resilient plug with a general cable designed to support a serial protocol plus power. The cable is terminated by intelligent modules controlling the cable impedance and actual protocol. The modules on the cable end are specific purpose such as serial, USB, audio, or other multi protocol. The module on the iPhone side is programmable via a firmware subsystem that can be updated with the OS. Since the modules are proprietary, Apple can rapidly evolve the standard and serial protocol over the cable. It can also quickly respond to specific custom needs or applications that might evolve.
Since Apple supports the OS for 4–5 years, this allows older phones to be updated for new peripherals.
This system is not simple to engineer. I am sure, they have had their share of problems maintaining reliability of the transport etc. on tight release schedules. People not familiar with engineering generally underestimate the challenges of a seemingly simple system like this.
The main advantage for the user is a very simple plug system for a broad range of uses.
Given the support requirements to develop, manufacture, and manage the system I doubt, it is driven by the profit motive. Apple has had to struggle with the supply chain of this system. MFI modules have had yearly constraint issues - especially for licensees. This is something that is not in Apple’s interest, since it reduces sales of higher margin and ASP products.
Profits from cable systems are “mice nuts” in Apple business model.
The main motivation is a great user experience and engineering flexibility to advance the system.
https://www.quora.com/Will-future-i...swer/Harald-Striepe?share=4e6c59bf&srid=hozns
Blah blah blah. Clearly you didn’t finish the article as it seems to be a software issue in iOS 12, which last I checked was actually free.
Price does not mean something won’t have issues. $100,000 cars still have issues.
https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1046160786249453568 Marques says he cant replicate it on his devices.
I've had this issue with my iPhone 7 Plus, but only when plugging into my Mac. You have to unlock it for it to charge.
I don't have the issue when using a charging brick.
It's not really a big deal; I just make sure the phone is charging before I leave it if it's very low and I'm going to need it later.
I wonder if this is really an iOS 12 issue that people are only now discovering since the masses are updating and/or buying new phones. Usually "most people" don't do the iOS update until the phone prompts them which can be a week or more after the official release.
I don't have the issue when using a charging brick.
It's not really a big deal; I just make sure the phone is charging before I leave it if it's very low and I'm going to need it later.
I wonder if this is really an iOS 12 issue that people are only now discovering since the masses are updating and/or buying new phones. Usually "most people" don't do the iOS update until the phone prompts them which can be a week or more after the official release.
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Doesn't happen with my XS. Charging works regardless of the screen being off/on. I'm using the charger that came in the box. Plug it in without tapping or raising and I immediately get the audio tone that it's connected and the screen shows the charging icon.
Apple is preparing users for the inevitable removal of the charging port.
I don’t know if it’s other manufactures propping this BS due to their terrible sales this year or just idiotic android fanboys who have had it in for Apple since the launch of the iPhone.
Oh no! It's won't charge with screen turned off gate!! Apple is DOOMED!!! Steve would never approve...My next phone's gonna be an Android from Dollar General.
And stuck on any version of android between 5-7.
But but the latest iPhones WiFi is 1MB/s slower than the previous. So in your fac... [battery cut out after 1 hours use].
Apple, another example of how they fail on the basics.
I think what is truly pathetic is trying to use starving children to try and drive home a point. I truly have no idea how that point fits anywhere in this discussion, nor why it was raised to begin with.
Plus, I love how you lump a bunch of people into the same post and call us out for watching his video. I never watched it, nor did I comment anything regarding the content of the video. I simply called out the clickbait title. That makes up 99% of Unbox Therapy's videos: clickbait. His content isn't worth watching anyway, usually it's just a d*ck - err... spec sheet - measuring contest. All he seems to do is whine about Apple because they won't invite him to keynotes, just like Leo LaPorte.
I agree. The QA has been slipping a lot this year, especially with the new MacBooks, and now iPhones. It's a bug, it will be fixed. Should it have shipped like this? No, of course not. I was more commenting on the clickbait title of the video linked in the post than the issue itself.
Not defending Apple on this but Lewis has to be the most obnoxious tech pretender on YouTube. His facts are rarely close to being accurate. He represents the ultimate evolution of click bait. The fact that he has so many subscribers amplifies the uninformed ultra short attention span of most humans today. His channel promotes the grimey underbelly of miss information regardless of the product involved.
