Magsafe stops working right before new SW update?

Submitted by abailey2112 t3_10lt060 in iphone

I have a 12 mini and my wife has a 13 pro.

Ok so this happened to my wife’s phone first a while back. Randomly her MagSafe stopped working at all about 6 months ago. We updated it to whatever and a few weeks later it “randomly” started working again. I assumed she drops her phone more so that had to be it?

About 3 weeks ago hers stopped working again and again I said cause you treat your phone like crap. Then about 4 days later mine stopped working as well?

Ok, so our phones are older and do have the typical wear and tear so that sucks right?

We both updated our phones to 16.3 and guess what, MagSafe works again.

So has this happened to anyone else, are we living in some weird MagSafe hole that works when it wants? Is apple disabling it in my sleep? Is the FBI agent Trevor that lives in my phone turning it off? Are we being hacked by incredulous foreign governments?

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dskatter t1_j5yrbed wrote

Dumb question…do you reboot your phones at all?

Becuse updates force reboots, and that might have been the issue.

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dskatter t1_j5yrlgl wrote

Replying to abailey2112 (#1,506,039)

Hmm. Then I don’t know, except if it happens again I’d contact Apple.

That should have been step 1 after rebooting and such if MagSafe stopped working on any phone, btw. Just saying. :)

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abailey2112 OP t1_j5ysh8z wrote

Replying to dskatter (#1,506,068)

Oh yeah dude, that’s always my first step. The old Microsoft tech support of turning it off and on again lol

I figured I’d ask here because the problem “fixed itself” after we put 16.3 on. Didn’t think apple could do much honestly.

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ImChimeraX t1_j5yt6aa wrote

I have a 13 Pro Max and it's stopped working with wireless charging a couple of times, but both times a reboot fixed it. Hasn't happened for almost 6 months though.

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dskatter t1_j5ytfjn wrote

Replying to abailey2112 (#1,506,196)

I’d have considered that a hardware issue, since MagSafe shouldn’t just stop functioning! But hey, it’s working now!

Sadly, you’d be surprised how many people never think of rebooting when they have an issue. “My iPhone started doing something, what do I do?” Tried rebooting? “…wow, that fixed it, thanks!”

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abailey2112 OP t1_j5z2qrw wrote

Replying to dskatter (#1,506,321)

Hahaha yeah I learned at a very young age turning it off and back on again works wonders.

Even worked on a multi million dollar government aircraft I used to work on. Didn’t work, just reboot and start over

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MangyCanine t1_j5z8jkz wrote

Replying to abailey2112 (#1,506,039)

Uh, soft reboots or hard/forced reboots?? Soft reboots (turn iPhone off/on) are fine. Hard/forced reboots have a tiny chance of corrupting internal storage (because it's like pulling the power plug on a running desktop PC). It's like playing russian roulette; you might be able to get away with doing it a lot, but you'll get bitten eventually.

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