How to clear dirt and fluff from your iPhone’s charging port

Here’s how to remove debris to make cable charging possible again.

BY SIMON JARY

Why won’t my iPhone charge anymore? Many of us have been there, frantically wiggling the charging cable to try to get the charging icon on our phone screen. If your iPhone stops charging properly when you connect a cable, the likely reason is fluff, dust, or debris stuck in your phone’s charging port. This stuff stops the cable from properly connecting with your phone’s charging components. You might notice that the charging cable isn’t fitting in the port as well as it used to. Remove the junk, and your phone should charge as you expect it to. Below we show you how to remove this fluff, and more importantly we also show you how to stop dirt getting in the charging port in the first place. Don’t feel dirty. Dust and debris in…

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Macworld (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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