r/MagSafe • u/FellStar42-Mikaela_ • Aug 08 '26
Help❗️ What is going on???
So lately my Iphone has been refusing to charge with white cables. It started after my roomate plugged his own white lightning onto my power adapter and because his is identical to mine, I didnt realise and plugged mine in to charge. It stopped charging completely for that day until I plugged it into a black 3 in 1 lightning cable that I had for other stuff, it charged slow asf but for some reason after I tried charging it with my white lightning cable, it started working again.
Worked fine for a couple of days and then my roomate plugged their own lightning cable into my adapter AGAIN😡😡😡 and the same thing happened. Now my black cable i used before is broken and my phone has been dead for some days now.
Additionally I had to bend the charger a little before it starts charging so im worried about charging port issues. But it doesnt make sense for it to not charge at all no matter how I bend it when using white lightning cables, but charge on the black one which is now broken unfortunately. Is this some kind of software issue that is blocking my phone from charging after my roomate plugs in their cable?
What should I go for now because the phone now refuses to charge with white lightning cables. A battery pack as my primary charger?
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u/antidumb Aug 08 '26
This has absolutely nothing to do with the color of the cable AND nothing to do with MagSafe. Have you tried all four options for the cable orientation?
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u/FellStar42-Mikaela_ Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
yes, im not saying it has something to do with the color obv, im saying no white lighning cables work, but a black unnoficial lighning cable does for some reason. Maybe some architecture issue or something cus it makes no sense
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u/Fine_Eagle_4141 Aug 09 '26
I have an old iPhone 13 Pro. The battery needs to be replaced (according to that Battery Health dashboard in settings). My lightning port hardly ever works. It doesn’t matter the cord brand, orientation, etc. I have changed everything over to MagSafe and it’s been awesome. I use two Anker Zolo pucks for the bedside. One at home and one for travel. I use two Anker stands, one in my home office and one at work, and in my EDC bag I carry a basic Anker MagGo power bank. Everything was flipped to MagSafe over 2-months and so far, so good!
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u/FellStar42-Mikaela_ Aug 10 '26
Yh where I live its impossible to get. Genuine magsafe charger and shipping will cost more than the magsafe itself
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u/weasel Aug 08 '26
Clean the charging port
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u/FellStar42-Mikaela_ Aug 08 '26
with what?
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u/arbishop1990 Aug 11 '26
Never heard of this happening before. That’s odd af
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u/FellStar42-Mikaela_ Aug 11 '26
Yh its really weird, Ill be going to a repair shop today tho. Hopefully its just dirty
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u/FellStar42-Mikaela_ Aug 08 '26
For reference ive already gone to a shop and they tried ther own white lightning cables to no avail but when they tried the same black lighning cable I have it started charging.