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BMWs wireless chargers are terrible. I had one in my previous one and all it did was make my iPhone hot. I didn’t order it in my current BMW. That’s pretty much the consensus on the BMW forums too.
Edit: I’m wondering if it’s the heat these things produce while charging. They’re supposedly a software fix coming, but mine gets pretty hot sometimes while I’m using it and charging at the same time .
A fun comment I heard once from a sales guy (who had a bmw) is that BMW drivers are so angry and upset because they have to deal with BMW's service department all the time.
You sleep in the bed you make lol. BMW support being shit has been a known thing for decades at this point
I’ve had 10 BMWs in the last 20 years and I’ve never had any issues, and I have a great service advisor.
Wireless charging makes my iPhone 13 really hot in my Audi.
Same in the Cupra Ateca I rented in Europe.
Same in the Model 3 I rented in Phoenix.
Wireless charging is pretty inefficient in general. Pumping in electrical energy on one end and getting significantly less out the other means it had to have been converted into some other form of energy. Heat.
I am wondering why it's mostly cars that are heating up though...
I have a real cheap wireless charger in my car that's actually caused my 13 Mini to go into cool down mode while using the GPS. This has reminded me that I really ought to replace it...
They’re only 5w. And you need them aligned correctly to get the full power from them. So they’re basically perfect for warming up your phone and giving you 2% more battery.
Wireless car chargers suck right now. Qi should fix that a little bit. But, it will probably take a long time for cars to adopt that. Car manufacturers are slow AF.
Huh! That's explains my experience with rental BMWs. I though I do something incorrectly or that my iPhone is too old (XS). I did not even think that it can be the car's fault.
My Kia’s wireless charger cools the phone.
Until the fire, sure.
Huh? It’s a Kia not a Porsche.
Kia currently has a massive recall for vehicles spontaneously combusting.
In other news have you heard Kia's new mixtape? I hear it's….
… well it's not bad.
Oh, seems mine doesn’t fall under that.
That's great to hear. I am glad you are safe from that at least.
Interesting. Qi charging is around 200 kHz, while NFC is around 14 MHz. They shouldn't interfere, but if somehow a faulty wireless charger is emitting much higher frequencies, I can imagine how that fries an NFC chip
Came here to ask what's different. Does BMW not use the Qi standard?
Pretty sure they'd have to, otherwise they couldn't charge phones that use it
Regular iPhone 15 here. There’s an issue with the NFC in these.
People have been complaining over Reddit that Apple Pay doesn’t communicate with the terminals and I’m affected too. Not heat or wireless charging related, NFC just dies. Start saying “Hold near reader” and nothing happens. Can’t use Apple Pay.
Not exclusively related to BMW or wireless charging because I don’t have a BMW, but it could be something that contributes to the issue
I'm sure Apple will release a statement any day now how they're just holding it wrong.
"We will release a patch to completely disable NFC and prevent any NFC issues from occurring"
lol “X, formerly known as Twitter”
People knew what Twitter was. X is just a letter. The kind of brand awareness Twitter had took years and hundreds of millions of dollars to build (and yes, I’m talking about the name and logo only. Those marketing costs were in addition to all other overhead).
Of all the asinine business decisions Musk has made, casually throwing away that immensely valuable name recognition was one of the dumbest.
Sorry for the sidetrack. It was such a stupid decision, it still bothers me.
It’s awesome to have FU money on a scale of billions I suppose.
Oh well. I always disliked it anyway. Too self-important.
Also known as X-F-K-T, pronounced x-fucked
Xitter. Pronounced “shitter”.
Good thing I drive a dodge journey.
LOL, my car is a 2002 and my truck a 2004. I have no idea what's going on with these failed car tech posts.