- David and David here,
let's talk about what to do
when your iPhone won't charge the wireless charger.
- Just a quick background on Qi, Q-I, Qi Charging,
Qi was developed
by an International Power Consortium, AKA, group of nerds,
- Well, it should be obvious
to even the most dim-witted individual.
- who got together and developed
this open standard for wireless charging.
If you have a wireless charger, 99% of the time,
it's Qi charger.
This is a $10 Amazon Qi charger.
Qi chargers, like this one, though, are pretty finicky.
Although the International Consortium says
that they should be able to charge over four centimeters,
at least that's the distance.
- Theoretical anyway.
- Yeah, there's no way.
- Yeah, sometimes too,
one of the reasons why your iPhone
might not be wireless charging
is because of a thick iPhone case,
which can kind of interrupt with that connection,
when you place it on the pad.
Right? So, if you have a really thick case, take it off.
- Also, make sure it's plugged in, right?
We're experts here, people.
- That's important. Plug it in.
- Boom, plugged in.
Iphone, wirelessly charging.
But, with a charger like this,
I mean, you go here and it's not working,
forget it. I used to wake up all the time, no charge.
- Step two, make sure
it's right in the center of the charging pad.
If it's off center, might not charge,
- Right. So, a lot of people are probably finding out now,
that they need to get case.
We can drop a link, in the description section below
and cart up above, to Amazon where you can buy
a Qi compatible case.
There's a lot of good ones out there,
especially the Apple cases.
They're excellent.
They feel good too.
- Another thing to do is just wipe off your iPhone,
wipe off the charging pad.
You know, four centimeters.
But, even if there's like a thin layer of dust or debris,
just wiping that off can make a difference.
- (laughs) Especially, if it has been on your nightstand,
like this one was, forever.
Wipe off your iPhone.
- Wipe it off.
- Pretty simple. Also try, a different cable.
So, in this case,
the Qi charger is not, even, using a lightning cable.
It's a micro USB cable.
This is an a Asus charger.
What's great about Qi
is that there's really no apple lightning made
for iPhone certification for the whole thing.
It just works.
So, I like that.
We got on board with a universal technology.
- Yep, try different outlets in the wall too, you know?
- Yeah, move to a different house.
- A different house is good.
- So, I want to talk about
the MagSafe charger, which is also a Qi charger,
but a finicky one.
So according to apple,
a MagSafe charger requires, I believe it's, 12 Watts,
at least, in terms of the charger,
and it has to be basically an apple USB charger.
So, you buy this thing, it comes in the box,
and you think, okay, I got a great charger,
but then you also need a USB-C power adapter for it.
This is an iPhone 12 pro,
so it has the MagSafe port in the back.
Charges, perfectly.
This will also charge older iPhones,
but the kicker is that it will charge them
slower than other Qi chargers.
So, it's really not the best idea in the world
to use a MagSafe charger on an older iPhone.
But, at least, it's not super magnetic
and doesn't take the whole thing with it.
So, what I did is I thought to myself,
when I got this cable,
I didn't have an extra USBC power brick lying around.
So, I thought, I'm going to get cute with this thing.
I'm just gonna use my old one.
I'm going to on Amazon, I'm going to buy a USBC,
USBA, AKA old-school USB adapter,
plug it in and then use, my old charger,
which had more than enough juice.
So I plug it in, nothing.
- Nothing there.
Nothing doing.
I don't know why you can't do it, you just can't.
- Yeah. So, check your adapter's set up too
while you're at it.
Maybe your iPhone is just not responsive at all.
Black screen.
- That used to happen a lot.
- Yeah. Black screen and place on the charger,
it's not charging, hard reset.
- Hard reset.
- So, I have an iPhone 10.
If you have an iPhone eight or newer.
- It's actually an iPhone 11 pro, but who's counting.
- Yeah. Whatever, same thing.
Volume up, volume down, press and hold that side button,
until the Apple logo appears on the screen.
If you have an iPhone 7,
it is the volume down button
and the side button.
I just let go, that's fine.
And, if you have a iPhone 6s or older,
or an iPhone SE,
home button, power button, same time,
Apple logo appears on the screen.
- Yeah. As soon as the apple logo appears, you can let go.
That was awesome.
That was, like, a lot of instructions
in a short amount of time.
We've done this before.
- Of course, I should say that the iPhone 6S
doesn't have wireless charging, anyway.
- Why are we even talking about this?
- For relevant information.
- That's alright. We're just used to it.
We're, basically, wind us up and let us go.
(cymbaling)
- A lot of the time, this problem is caused
by a really cheap Qi charger that broke.
we'll link to a better one in the description, down below.
(laughing)
Or, you might just need a power adapter
to, actually, make it happen.
- Or more powerful power adapter.
So, yeah.
This one came with a light that was so bright,
I put black tape over it,
and then just like scribbled
in with a Sharpie, because it was waking me up at night.
It was so freaking bright.
It was not the best design in the world.
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