Why won't my iPhone charge after the battery drained completely?

I hope I am not to late. What I did because I have the 5 and it did the same thing. It wouldt come on but it would show the battery was charging so what I did was make sure the phone is plugged up to the charger but here is the trick. Plug in a flat iron, clothing iron, blow dryer or stove and set your phone very close (but not close enough to cause damage to the phone). After about2 minutes of doing this trick I pressed the home screen and the sleep/wake button an my phone turned back on. (AMEN)

simple technique every apple device has issue... i just take a hair dryer and in back cover slowly and gradually move up and down when it's metal got heated it's turn on ... since iphone 4 to uptill now iphone 6s plus and now also tried iphone 7... so i though apple can also gave one hair dryer to every customer :P

if you have had difficulty charging your battery, but once charged it holds it's charge then the problem is either the dock itself..in which case give it a very good clean out of all the dirt that may have gathered or replace it.

Once a battery has died beyond charging it will not charge from wall or pc no matter how much you try.

I'd suggest investing in a new battery and a new charging port (dock connector) then you know you have a clean starting point. As the phone is dead you don't have to worry about powering off before you start troubleshooting, but it's a good point to remember if you need to go back in and check connections once you have replaced those parts.

Hello i had the same problem, its like the above post there is a fusible link of sorts and it opens the circuit when the battery power gets too low. I just took off the phone case and plugged it in and placed the phone about 2 inches from a light bulb. what that did was close the circuit and allowed the battery to charge once again. The phone has to heat up to close the fusible link. so get the phone to about 90 degrees after you plug it in. good luck

I was wary of the hair dryer technique when my phone wouldn't turn on so I tried just warming it up with my body heat while it was plugged into the wall. This did the trick! phone turned on in about a minute or two and it continued charging.

HEY EVERYONE I just had the same issue of an old iPhone 5 that I was on reserve for emergencies so I have not used it in a year, What i found to be the charm was warm it up (i just used my laptop that was quite warm underneath as all laptops get, left it there for 1-2 mins resting underneath then i held down ALLLL THE BUTTONS ON MY PHONE(home button, + - buttons and main top switch) and after what felt like eternity it came alive!!!! :) Really hope this current advice helps others!!

This worked for me too! An old iPhone we use as a device for kids was lost and dead a month. Plugged in all day couldn't get it to come to life, only the red dead battery. Left it plugged in, hairdryer to the back about 1-2 min and within a minute the apple logo came back and then it worked!

i dont know if people still have this problem....but a solution for me was cleaning out the dock with a pin. a lot of dust can get stuck in then and become compressed. a good way to know if this is your problem is to see if your charger fits in all the into the phone. if it doesnt most likely means your dock has dust in it and charger is not fitting in properly. if you ask my phone was charging normally before? yea it charged for me too but when my battery was completely drained it wouldnt with the dust there, but i once i cleaned the dock it started charging perfectly. hope this was some help.

I have found numerous times with so called "smart" battery chargers as needed for Li-Ion but also NiMh or even lead acid leisure batteries that they refuse to charge a really discharged battery. Their internal logic does not cope for a very flat battery. Happened only last night with my BL-5CB in my Nokia105 which was only reading 3.05vdc. First time I just bought a new battery online and away it went. This time I used the trick mentioned by an earlier poster. Just get a few 1.5v alkaline batteries (enough to exceed the 3.6v of the BL5CB) and connect them together (I use a battery holder from some item I scrapped a few years ago) and then just connect the BL-5CB to it +ve to +ve and -ve to -ve and leave it for just a minute or two. This will give enough charge to bring the BL5CB voltage out of "deep discharge" and then I put it back in the Nokia 105, DON'T turn the phone on as not enough charge to power it, but straight away plug in and switch on the charger. Up popped the little charge icon on the screen and a few hours later the phone was back to full functionality showing 100% charge.

Similar approaches worked with my 12v leisure battery that my smart trickle charger/maintainer refuses to recognise unless the battery voltage is over 8v. Takae care not to use any power supply which can provide too much current as it will probably blow the protection fuse inside the BL-5CB. I measured my charge rate last night with an inline multimeter and it was only 30mA. but that was enough as I explained above.

The following steps revived an iPhone5: a) put your iPhone into DFU mode (Default Firmware Update), then b) restore the iPhone completely. The complete restore process in DFU mode may need to be repeated 5-6 or more time before the iPhone revives. (I'd give up after 10 tries)

NOTE: I would not recommend paying for a battery replacement. Usually it is a software issue. Once an iPhone's battery has been discharged completely, the software date and other parameters seem to get lost, preventing iPhone from properly functioning.

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I can confirm the hairdryer method works. Not first time for me, but after about 15 mins of a hairdryer while plugged into macbook with itunes open, and it took 3 attempts until recovery mode began. couldn't get it into DFU.

Happened to me a few times when I let the battery completely drain. I just put it under my laptop and it will start charging again. I guess the heat under the laptop will do the trick.

I used a blow dryer to warm mine up and then tried a fourth apple charger. Finally it's charging.

My Iphone 6 was not charging and can't turn on after updating to IOS 11. I sat on my phone for 2 mins and force reboot and it turned out fine! woohoo!

As the following people said, "Place near hot source". I agree! My phone is kind of broken so it isn't the best and I left to to charge. The battery got drained and this had happened before. I placed my phone under my laptop, since it heats up. Anyways, in order to heat up my laptop I would do something entertaining to lose focus. I continued doing what I was doing and after a while it heated up. Then my phone turned on! Definitely recommend.

hi guys, unfortunately i have this problem as well and what i do is i rub my ip6 between my hands for like 2 minutes until i it warm and after that i try to charge it and guess, it works! so happy right now. hope it helps, have a nice day :)

Charging ic faulty

When battery depleted

Will not charge

When battery is removed from internal socket and lightning cable inserted

It will show apple logo and if battery is plugged in it will charge

Basically the iPhone will not charge battery when it's below 1% if its any higher it will charge

New battery will be the same results

Cause is the charging ic faulty

Expensive fix

My IP5s does not charge only shows red battery icon. At first the red battery icon flashes 3x and disappear which i thought i had stable connection in the wall. However i read tips from inet that red battery icon should not flash to ensure correct charging - which i did. But still after several hours the apple logo does not show up. I tried cleaning the end terminal hook up to IP5s and put the back part of IP5s on top of boiled warm banana (of course not too hot that will not burn your palm). After that crazy trick the apple logo show up and my IP5s starts normal charging..Happy ;-)

I have tried all of these and nothing is working. The only thing it does is show the white apple logo for a couple seconds and I press the buttons to reset, then it goes black again. Any suggestions? Do I need a new battery?

My iphone 5 was charging tried all the tips on this page and didn’t work!

I was shocked when the iphone didnt turn on the first time it drained

Please help me!

This is my guess: non-oem battery does not have the correct BMS whereas the Apple BMS will not allow the OEM battery from dropping below a certain level so that the OEM battery will always turn on.

For example, the iphone won't allow the Apple OEM battery with the correct BMS to drop below say 2.5V whereas the not-OEM battery without the correct BMS will drop below 2.5V to say 2.3V. At 2.3V with the non-OEM battery, the phone will never turn on. The way to increase the voltage is to open the iPhone, remove the connector from the battery to the iPhone, plug in the Lightning charging cable (with power), use a heat blow dryer for about 10 seconds to warm up the battery and reconnect the battery connector to the phone. Do the hard turn on (home + side buttons at the same time) and it will start charging.

Mine iphone 6 would knly charge with original iphone charger cable, that cable broke got a non original one but it doesnt charge anymore its dead. Took it to a technician, he said ether the battery or the chqrging port or both should be changed, which cost more then what the phone is worth…

Try another charger and also put your battery to another iPhone and check battery health. for that go to setting battery and battery heath data.

This will give you ideal where battery working fine or not.

I've tried all of This and nothing has worked! If I replace the battery will it work then? Thanks it’s an iPhone 7 plus

I am really grateful for finding a solution within these replies.
Even though the problem might have been a different one, it looked like the battery was dead.

I have iPhone 13 Pro Max and this hairdryer thing worked!
The battery was not even dead it was 79% charged!

A little background detail if it might help other people with similar issue:

The phone was left to charge over night close to an open window.
It was raining overnight, so there is a possibility a few drops fell on the phone, although it did not look like there were.
It was turned face down, so even if there were a few drops they would not have fallen on the actual phone. Outdoor temperature was about 8 celsius.
In the morning the phone was dead.
It was still plugged in.

I tried different chargers, wireless and wired.
I tried rebooting or hard starting or whatever the word for that is.

Eventually I tried the hairdryer.
It booted up after 2 minutes.

Note: I always charge the phone overnight in same place with open window and this never happened, even when it rained and even the temperatures were below zero.

if the battery is fully drained, you need to give it a chock therapy. Open the iphone, connect the +/- of the battery directly to a power supply with higher voltage than the battery nominal voltage (2-10V, 20-50% of nominal voltage) for 10seconds -1 minute depending on the voltage (the higher the voltage, the shorter the time). Then charge it normally. If the normal charging still does not start, repeat with increased voltage or increased time (works 100%).