USB-C Chaos: iPhone 15 Pro's Unexpected Charging Issue

That's the question

Oh right, so the iPhone 15 Pro has a weird USB charging problem

This is actually hilarious. You may have saw this story. It blew up on Reddit this week

And I guess the genesis of this is this guy plugged in his phone to his anchor charging brick

and when he came back, his phone was dead but his charger was full

And that's because, you know how when you plug in an iPhone 15 Pro into another iPhone 15 Pro

remember what happens, we talked about this in a previous show, Apple confirmed, that the phone with the higher level of charge

will charge the phone with the lower level of charge. And apparently that seems to be happening

with charging bricks as well. I don't know how pervasive this issue is

but it is absolutely hilarious. So people have been plugging their phones in

to charging bricks only to come back and see that their phones are dead

but their charging bricks are full. Which is obviously not the way it's supposed to work

I just kept thinking, imagine if you're at a place like Disneyland where you use your phone all the time

You rely on your phone and it's almost dead, you plug it in and you come back

and you realize that it's totally dead and that your charging brick is now full

Well of course, all you have to do is unplug it and plug it back in because the phone will take a charge

if it determines that it's the one with the smaller charge and the brick has more of a charge

But if you plug it into a brick with a charge that's lower than your phone

apparently there are instances where the brick will be the one that starts getting charged from your phone

I don't know if Apple can fix this. I was reading and doing some research about this

I mean, USB-C seems like it's a pretty straightforward connection type but I guess it's like a hellscape

of different connection technologies and all this stuff. It's like Thunderbolt works with USB-C

USB-C is USB-3, USB-2, USB-1. There's all these different standards that are built into this one port

and there's a lot of different communication that has to happen and apparently the wires got crossed

the streams got crossed, which we know is never supposed to happen. And then these phones started charging power bricks

I'm just curious, for anyone in the chat, have you noticed that this has happened

I haven't used a charging brick on my 15 Pro Max yet

but now I'm tempted to try it, especially before I take my charging brick anywhere

just to make sure that my phone is actually the one being charged here

So that is one issue that actually popped up this week but I don't think this is a huge

this isn't a gate by any means. And all the other gates have completely

you know, have completely crumbled or have been revealed to be nothing but small issues

that are actually not big ordeals at all. I thought this was something that was like a known thing

This is how USB-C operates. This is part of the USB-C standard

There's a whole, everyone is correct in that USB-C is kind of a mess and it's like 12 different things

crammed into one port that looks the same so you can't really ever have a good idea

of what's actually going on behind the scenes. But this is a standard. Apple adopted the USB-C standard as it is specified

as agreed upon by the open body. Like when you plug two devices into each other

they do this negotiation thing that you don't really see happen but then they decide which device charges the other

Like the battery percentage is one thing that's a factor. The other factor that I don't see a lot of people

talking about is that the order of which device you plug in first also has a big difference

So I think supposedly you're more likely to get what you want if you plug the cable

into the power brick first and then plug the other end of the cable into the phone after that

I haven't seen a lot of people- I foresee a in-depth how-to on this. Well, we could if I were to have a USB-C iPhone

but I do not. Oh! Gotta get one on El-Kinney's dime for research purposes

Charge it to the company card. He won't even notice. He has like $5,000 lunches

He'll notice like nine months from now. Like, what happened? Oh my god

Did you see this $900 charge