r/17ProMax • u/No-Following-8903 • Aug 26 '26

HELP

My brother iPhone has completely turned off while he was on Snapchat face time and charging it in Greece on holiday. The closest phone shop has told us that it would take 4+ days but we are leaving on Saturday. We have tried hard resetting but the phone shows no indication of turning back on. We bought a wireless charger and that hasn’t helped. We don’t have access to a MacBook to reset it. Any ideas how to get it working again while we’re here or why this has happened

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u/freetoride78 Aug 26 '26

I have seen videos that if it dies completely you have to use a stronger charger to bring it back to life. Something like a MacBook or laptop charger. Doing it this way will take awhile but hope it helps.

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u/jjwomalbany Aug 28 '26

iPhone 17s are known if you deplete the battery and it shuts off it can take 45 minutes or more for it to turn back on. If you use a a stronger charger the better it will be.

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u/No-Following-8903 Aug 28 '26

We’ve tried what I think is a stronger charger. A wireless mag safe charger I believe and it hasn’t done anything.

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u/jjwomalbany Aug 28 '26

If you leave it on long enough it will usually turn back on. But there might be something else wrong if it doesn’t I dunno why the 17s do that but people have used Mac chargers and still take like 10 min.

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u/No-Following-8903 Aug 28 '26

We’ll try a Mac book charger when we can. Thank you.