iPhone not charging via cable, only Magsafe

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unk_12a OP
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The iPhone randomly stopped drawing any power from the power brick, happened yesterday after a walk. Came home, plugged it in and over an hour instead of charging the phones battery percentage decreased to 20% from 30%. I was no where near any liquids that could have possibly damaged the port. Currently, in a country that doesn't have any official apple stores/repair centers, however, went to some local ones. They say that the problem is with the IC block and ask me to pay $200 for it. Quiet hesitant to do so, frankly speaking.

Did anyone experience this before or have any suggestions? Thanks!

Running IOS 27.3

Answered by Claude31 in 897368022

As you can charge with Magsafe, you're safe.

In such a case, I would not pay $200 for a repair that will probably not solve anything.

Did the problem occur just after installing 27.3ß ?

If so, you could:

  • return to a stable iOS
  • wait for the next release of iOS

Then you'll see if it's a hardware issue.

Of course, you should file a bug report.

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DTS Engineer OP
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The iPhone randomly stopped drawing any power from the power brick. It happened yesterday after a walk. I came home, plugged it in, and over an hour instead of charging, the phone’s battery percentage decreased to 20% from 30%.

This may seem obvious, but I have to ask. Have you tried rebooting the device? Or powering the device off completely, then plugging it in to USB to see if it detects the plug-in and powers up?

I've actually had this happen a few different times over the years on early beta releases, and it's always been fixed by power cycling the device. I looked into it at once a few years ago, and the problem was caused by one of our power management daemons crashing and then being unable to relaunch properly, which was sorted by resetting the system.

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Kevin Elliott
DTS Engineer, CoreOS/Hardware
unk_12a OP
8h

I did restart it multiple times, when completely turned off it doesn't draw any power as well.

Do you suggest downgrading to a stable version of IOS 26?
Claude31 OP
8h
Accepted Answer

As you can charge with Magsafe, you're safe.

In such a case, I would not pay $200 for a repair that will probably not solve anything.

Did the problem occur just after installing 27.3ß ?

If so, you could:

  • return to a stable iOS
  • wait for the next release of iOS

Then you'll see if it's a hardware issue.

Of course, you should file a bug report.

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