Some iPhone XS and XS Max Units Won't Start Charging While Screen is Turned Off [Fix Coming in iOS 12.1]

It happens on my 6s since iOS12. I thought it's because of that USB security thing... nothing dramatic, could be simply fixed via software update. Unbox Therapy is getting to be quite annoying.
 
I'm a bit confused on all of this. I know my iPhone 7 when I plug it in even if the screen is off (and I haven't touched it in hours), it vibrates, the screen comes on and it shows the battery status and charging. Is this not the case anymore with iOS 12? I'm still on iOS 11 (Work device, was told to hold off until corporate IT gives the all clear).
 
pmore said:
So? Some YouTubers make a living off of being pathetically pro-Apple. You do what you gotta do.

If anything, iPhone XS users should be grateful for Lewis giving this problem visibility. Otherwise you guys will have to wake your iPhones before connecting the 5W charger for a long time...
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Exactly. But instead they seem to be very offended. As if someone personally insulted them.
 
Michael Goff said:
Why are so many people ignoring the issue in here to attack Lew?
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That's what blind fanboyism looks like.

It's funny, because we Apple users were accused of just that at times when Apple itself made a lot more sense and there were actually nuances to the discussion, these days Apple is in the wrong so often and they get defended by the brigades so blindly, but these days following Apple is mainstream.

How times have changed.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
WatchFromAfar said:
Remeber when Apple's matra was "it just works"? Nowadays it seem to be "we'll fix it with a patch sometime down the road"
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I also remember when apples motto was “think different”.
Nowadays they give chinese government iCloud master keys so they can find people who think different and drop them into the next re-education and labor camp. Where they may build more iPhones for apple with the SJW Tim Cook as CEO.
It all could be an episode of South Park, couldn’t it...
 
WatchFromAfar said:
Remeber when Apple's mantra was "it just works"? Nowadays it seem to be "we'll fix it with a patch sometime down the road"
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I remember my stepdad, who's been a system administrator with plenty certifications, referring to Microsoft software as banana software in the early 2000s:

Ripening at the customer's home.

These days Microsoft's software is still buggy or poorly designed in various ways, but the difference between Apple and Microsoft is a lot narrower than back then.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
Glassed Silver said:
I remember my stepdad, who's been a system administrator with plenty certifications, referring to Microsoft software as banana software in the early 2000s:

Ripening at the customer's home.

These days Microsoft's software is still buggy or poorly designed in various ways, but the difference between Apple and Microsoft is a lot narrower than back then.

Glassed Silver:mac
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In the early 2000’s, for Apple Operating Systems, you could choose between OS 9 which didn’t even have pre-emptive multitasking and had been surpassed by Windows 95, 98 and the far more robust NT 3, 4 and Windows 2000. Later in the early oughts you had dog slow Mac OS X releases which took until at least, depending on your tolerance for slowness, 2003 or 2004 to become a genuinely bettering offering. IMO it wasn’t until late stage 10.4 Tiger, and arguably even Tiger on Intel that Apple had a period where the OS was basically unquestionably better.

Rose tinted glasses (and things dad’s said that we somehow never questioned or put into historical context) are a helluva drug.
 
Feenician said:
In the early 2000’s, for Apple Operating Systems, you could choose between OS 9 which didn’t even have pre-emptive multitasking and had been surpassed by Windows 95, 98 and the far more robust NT 3, 4 and Windows 2000. Later in the early oughts you had dog slow Mac OS X releases which took until at least, depending on your tolerance for slowness, 2003 or 2004 to become a genuinely bettering offering. IMO it wasn’t until late stage 10.4 Tiger, and arguably even Tiger on Intel that Apple had a period where the OS was basically unquestionably better.

Rose tinted glasses (and things dad’s said that we somehow never questioned or put into historical context) are a helluva drug.
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He never said that in comparison to Apple, but Unix and GNU/Linux.

Tiger on Intel was my start with Apple if we ignore the Apple keyboard I bought before that.

2003ish is the time I'm referring to though. NT4 was good and maybe even ahead of System 9 back then, could very well be.

Oh and about that "that we somehow never questioned" bit: he was my stepdad for mere 2-3 years by then back then, I questioned him a lot and were never shy to experiment against his suggestions in the tech field, wrecking my computers several times but learning along the way.

Assumptions are just that: assumptions.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
The race for more clicks and more views has come to extreme proportions nowadays, including mass media, all major newspapers, and of course Youtubers.
 
I just don't like his clickbait titles.

Let's be real here, Lew doesn't like Apple.

I don't like iJustine too, because she's fake AF, and she bleeds Apple.

I am a realist, I don't care about brand loyalty.

Apple should sort out this **** asap.
 
TroyBoy30 said:
Price does not mean something won’t have issues. $100,000 cars still have issues.
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issues that you can live with till its fixed.
This is like Tesla selling you a 100k car and you driving around all day coming home and plugging it in. Waking up the next day for work and the car is dead because it wasn't charging.

Id imagine someones phone is used for work and they need it ready in the morning when they sleep. If the phone is basically dead by morning its a huge issue.

Its not a small problem and should of never happened. Hopefully there is a fix next week.
my max is fine but I would of been mad if I had this problem for the past week.
 
The Reality is, we know it’s a problem. But to what extent and how many it’s actually affecting? No one knows this. The only thing we can ask moving forward, is how quickly does Apple resolve this issue, likely if it’s a software update needed.
 
I'm not saying I like or dislike any YouTube channels as everyone's tastes vary.

However, I would say, EVERYONE here, who likes Apple products, and wants them to be better should deep down thank ANY You-Tuber that brings maximum attention to any bugs or issues so that other media places get to hear about it and also report on it.

Why?

Because mass awareness and, even if you dislike them, sensationalist viewpoints, get things fixed and improved upon the quickest.

Nothing ever gets resolved quickly by keeping quiet about it.

Case in point. Do you REALLY think Apple phones would be as physically strong now if no one ever had tried to bend them, and a whole "will it bend" culture got so strong in the media?
No, of course not.

Apple has to respond to this noise generated bu such aggressive? channels.

So, remember, whilst you may hate issues being made into more then you think they should be.
The end result of all of this, is that YOU will get better and better products into the future.
 
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