Wireless phone charging is an annoying feature that should never have become standard, amirite?

One thing that has commonly killed phones for me is the cable port. Wireless charging can keep a phone usable for months or even years. I don't use it in normal situations, but view it as important for that.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

So, they make these magnetic chargers that stay permanently in the charging port, then to charge the phone you just attach the cable. I used them for a couple years and they're pretty great. Also convenient if you have multiple devices with different ports (becoming more and more rare with usbc), because you can use the same charging cable for all of them. The only reason I quit using them is because they dont charge quite as fast as a direct plug, but its way faster than wireless. Just an option you might want to consider.

by Nelle89 1 day ago

I don't recommend this for all electronics. The magnetic chargers have been shown to cause problems with devices over prolonged use

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Sam here, for every phone i've owned, the charging port was the first thing to break.

by Anonymous 23 hours ago

Hi, Sam. That sucks about the charging ports.

by Anonymous 23 hours ago

Ok Sam.

by Wainokautzer 23 hours ago

Sam here, battery for me

by Anonymous 22 hours ago

Username checks out. I think that other guy is lying about being the real Sam shady

by Pretty_Alarm5185 22 hours ago

Tf are you shoving in the charging port?

by Anonymous 22 hours ago

It could also be from frequent use of the port. When i was a delivery driver, i was frequently plugging my phone in and out of the aux cable, which on today's phones is the charging port.

by Anonymous 22 hours ago

I had one prematurely fail on a phone under warranty. Wasn't being rough with it or anything, just came in at a slightly off angle and broke the port.

by Dull-Credit 22 hours ago

I have never had this problem with any USB-C port and wireless charging didn't start becoming common until after micro USB was obsolete.

by Anonymous 22 hours ago

You need to take a toothpick and remove the lint from your phone's charging port. Just jam it in there and clean it out. It collects lint and sweat from your pants and needs to be cleaned every so often. My phone has been running for six years, whenever the charger acts up I fix it by cleaning the port

by Either-Sundae 22 hours ago

Same, I work in a dusty environment and every few months I gotta dig out the buildup. Start noticing it whenever the charger starts getting loose in the port

by Anonymous 21 hours ago

Never heard anything about a glass back before? Is that some apple marketing stuff? Most phones out there that charge wirelessly don't have a glass back.

by Anonymous 21 hours ago

To say the phone is not wireless charging because the charger needs a cable to connect to whatever power source it needs is diabolical lmao. It's like saying wireless charging MUST be done using the force or something.

by Big-Recognition 20 hours ago

Nah I actually agree with OP on that one. "Wireless" is not a good name for it.

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

The standard way to charge your phone is to plug the cable in. This way of charging your phone is to put it on the magnetic surface with no cable attached to the phone itself. I'll say that's wireless. There is no point in nitpicking words in this matter because it makes the whole talk silly.

by Big-Recognition 20 hours ago

"Wireless charging" still requires a wire that you still have to plug into the charger and then the phone has to be physically touching it. It may as well be plugged into the phone and it's the same amount of wires. Inductive charging is a better name for it.

by Anonymous 19 hours ago

Wifi is wireless internet...but my router still needs wires to give it the internet

by russeldaugherty 19 hours ago

Yeah and it sends the signal wirelessly to your device, and your device doesn't need to be physically tethered to it.

by Anonymous 19 hours ago

You're tethered to your home though.

by Internal-Resident 19 hours ago

What about wireless chargers in a car. You never even see those cables or have to plug them in.

by blockdeshawn 19 hours ago

Sure that could actually be considered wireless. I'm thinking of the ones you plug in.

by Anonymous 18 hours ago

Okay, but those are connected to a power source by wires... literally the exact same thing lmao

by Anonymous 18 hours ago

But those two applications are literally the same thing, except one is permanently wired up the cars electronics and the other you plug into an outlet (and likely don't move for months)

by Internal-Resident 18 hours ago

Damn you sound like a pleasant person. I'll triple down too!

by Anonymous 18 hours ago

Because with the same device, you consider it wireless on a car, and "inductive" on the table. It's plain stupidity.

by Big-Recognition 17 hours ago

Hmm yeah maybe it's the presence of a wire that makes me consider it "wired" 🤔

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

Vibility of the wire* The one in your car also has wires going to it, they're just hidden

by Responsible_Act9020 17 hours ago

With a definition like that i dont think anything would be able to be called wireless. My wireless ps5 controller only works after i install all the wires to my playstation and tv.

by Anonymous 16 hours ago

Yeah but there's no wire going from the console to your controller, so that's wireless. For a wireless charger your phone is still essentially tethered by a wire.

by Anonymous 16 hours ago

When I was at the Seoul Incheon airport there was wireless charging on the airport seats which was great because the ports had not been updated for usb c. I just had to sit my phone down. I still used my phone. I also have a wireless charger myself and have held my phone while it's charging the good thing is though if I accidentally yank or pull my phone the port won't break or the charger bents. It just comes off the back.

by Anonymous 16 hours ago

Dude, my phone is still connected to a wire while charging, True wireless is those magnet packs that you just stick on the back of your phone and you can move around

by Myabauch 16 hours ago

Magnet packs, that you have to plug in to charge???

by Internal-Resident 16 hours ago

You plug it in to charge then take it off the charger and put it on your phone. It's cordless. Is your phone also not cordless because you have to charge it on a chord?

by Myabauch 16 hours ago

Is your landline not wireless because the base station has to be plugged into the wall?

by Internal-Resident 16 hours ago

The charger is not wireless

by Myabauch 16 hours ago

If I'm not mistaken you can charge a phone by putting it in a room with a tesla coil. There's a famous shot of tesla holding a lightbulb that's on and not screwed into anything.

by Anonymous 16 hours ago

So my phone is not wireless because it connects to cell towers to get it's data and those towers have wires?

by Mayelesch 15 hours ago

Even worse: this is gonna blow your mind but your phone actually has tiny wires inside it! The wired industry has us all by the short hairs…

by More-Fun 15 hours ago

Just wait until I tell you what I found when I accidentally broke open my WIRELESS headphones………..

by More-Fun 14 hours ago

Was it tacos?

by russeldaugherty 14 hours ago

Yeah but they were vegetarian. And not like good vegetarian, like just lettuce and tomato in a hard shell vegetarian. Many are the crimes of the wireless…

by More-Fun 14 hours ago

Depends how much you're willing to pay, darling

by Sad_Possession_3221 14 hours ago

Do you hold your phone against the tower to be able to get data?

by catharinehettin 13 hours ago

I'm not sure you really understand wireless charging. I have a wireless charger for my phone. There's nothing magnetic about it. The phone doesn't "attach" to it. It's just a pad I drop my phone on when I want to charge it. And it doesn't heat up my phone. And it charges through phone cases so what the phone is made of is irrelevant. And it's no kind of inconvenience because I'm not on my phone 24/7. In fact, most of the time I'm not on my phone. So there's all kinds of time to charge it.

by Parking-Archer 13 hours ago

MagSafe is an apple thing

by Anonymous 13 hours ago

My point was that there are plenty of wireless chargers (for, yes, iphones) that don't do any of that.

by Parking-Archer 12 hours ago

So… don't use it?

by Zena80 12 hours ago

Just gets annoying with the "I don't like this so no one should get to enjoy it" type stuff

by russeldaugherty 12 hours ago

Not unpopular with me.

by Anonymous 12 hours ago

I find it useful in a couple of ways. Firstly, I can drop my phone on a wireless charger as I sit down, and snag it off as I stand up, making it easy to keep my phone with me and charged at work. Secondly, it keeps us (we use phones at work) from losing phones to damaged charging ports, when they get plugged and unplugged several times every day.

by Amani09 11 hours ago

it's the energy loss that kills it for me . magnetic cables are still the better option

by Gmohr 11 hours ago

usually it's optional? you don't have to use it lol. i've had a phone with wireless charging for a few years now and it's great, i only use a standard wire if im travelling because its significantly easier to charge my airpods, watch and phone in the same place without needing to plug in several devices

by Nelsjacobi 11 hours ago

Same. I have an all in one by my bedside table that's super convenient

by Dull-Credit 10 hours ago

They help me put my phone down. I like ‘em

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

I have a wireless powerbank so my charging can be really wireless heh

by fernando29 10 hours ago

Wireless charging is great overnight when it can go slow. It's the only way I charge my phone. It help extend the life of the changing port.

by letha11 9 hours ago

I have a wireless charger on my bed side, I just simply place it down and pick it up and dont have to grab the cable off the floor and plug it in, and it looks nice and tidy. Never have to charge it during the day anyway. So why complain about an extra feature that doesn't obviously fit your use case.

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

Well it's a good thing we still have charging ports, for now anyways

by Chaunceypaucek 9 hours ago

Handy when port will not let you charge due to water detection.

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

It's all wires nowadays.

by Jimmyschuster 8 hours ago

There are literally zero upsides to "wireless" charging. And with wired charging I can actually grab and use my phone while it charges

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

They're pretty pointless at home. They're kind of nice in a car that has a proper slot for it and you don't have to plug it in.

by Lopsided_Froyo 8 hours ago

I have one at home. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. I mostly wanted the novelty and the case I had already had the magnetic ring. I honestly wouldn't hate having it in my car if I could have one that didn't interfere with the cup holders.

by Advanced-Action 7 hours ago

I sometimes have to pull standby for work. Being able to grab my phone from the "wireless" charger at 3 am is great. No fumbling with the cord to plug it back in if the call is a false alarm.

by Anonymous 7 hours ago

I didn't need a glass back for mine and having the option doesn't mean you need to use it.

by Anonymous 7 hours ago

It's convenient. I have a magsafe charger in my car, just pop it in the mount and it's charging, I don't need to fumble around with a cord.

by DesperateLoan 7 hours ago

In my car there are no wires. On my nightstand there are no wires (well the nightstand is plugged into the wall).

by No_Bodybuilder_3002 6 hours ago

You do you. I love my magsafe wireless life. One in the truck. One by the bed. One at the computer desk. I can grab the phone and go and never have to pick up a cable.

by israelturcotte 6 hours ago

That's just a whole list of incorrect information. With the exception of maybe the efficiency argument. But when im in a situation where I'm using wireless charging ,such as when im at my desk at home,I dont really care about how efficient it is. Everything else you said is just false. Also, your point about "ItS nOt ReAlLy WiReLeSs!" Is, at this point in time, a deliberate misunderstanding of the colloquial usage of the term. No one with half a brain thinks that there are literally 0 wires involved.

by Anonymous 6 hours ago

What's complicated about setting your phone on a stationary pad built into your desk?

by Anonymous 6 hours ago

Seems like an apple problem

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

It's an ultimately useless feature, only really useful if your phone's charging port is totally messed up, but if you've somehow gotten to that point, I think you are quite overdue for some self-reflection. It is really good for something though, and that's planned obsolescence! If you're wondering why your battery health is down to 75% after only two years, you've got your answer!

by Balistrericreol 5 hours ago

but it's not?

by Anonymous 5 hours ago