Apologies to those of you who aren’t members of the cult but this is another post on Apple products. For the last year or so I’ve been using a wireless charger for my iPhone. I like it because it’s easy to pick up the phone if it rings at night or when I’ve set an alarm. When I used a wired charger I always got tangled up with the cord and ended up flexing the cable.
A couple of weeks ago, the wireless charger stopped working. It was an inexpensive Anker that had worked perfectly for me so I just ordered a new one. Sadly, the wireless charging still didn’t work. My next thought was that it must be the power supply but before I changed that out, I put my wife’s iPhone on the charger. It worked fine.
I spent a day or two wondering what to do when it occurred to me to do what I should have done in the first place: I asked DuckDuckGo. It turns out it’s a known problem as explained here. The TL;DR is that you need to do a hard reset on your iPhone. Apparently, just restarting the iPhone sometimes helps but it didn’t in my case. As soon as I performed the hard reset, everything starting working again.
The only problem is now I have two wireless chargers. I’m sure I’ll find a good use for it. This post will probably be of no interest to most folks but if you were wirelessly charging your iPhone and it stopped working, try a hard reset. Also take a look at the link above.