Prices range from $25 for a basic fix to $65 to $99 for a full replacement. Here is what affects the cost and how to avoid overpaying.
Most people walk in here assuming the port is dead. Most of the time it is not. There are four tests you can run in about two minutes with stuff you already own, and they will tell you whether you are looking at a $25 problem or a $150 one. Run them before you pay anybody, including me.
Plug it in and look at the gap between the cable head and the phone. On a good port the cable seats flush. If there is a visible gap, or if it feels like it stops short and springs back a little, you have lint. Not a broken port. Lint.
Your phone lives in your pocket. Every day it collects fabric fuzz, and every time you plug in you press that fuzz down harder. Eventually it becomes a packed mat at the bottom of the port and the cable physically cannot reach the contacts. The port underneath is perfectly fine.
If you are handy and patient, you can pull it out yourself. Power the phone off first. Use a wooden pick or a proper blunt anti static tweezer, work slowly, and pull the lint toward you instead of pushing it deeper. Never use a paperclip, a SIM tool, or anything else metal and pointed. Those scratch the contacts and can bridge the pins.
This is the set I would hand someone: iFixit Precision Tweezers Set. The blunt tip is the one you want for this. It costs less than the cheapest shop visit and you will use it again.
Skip canned air. It pushes the lint further in and the propellant leaves residue on the contacts.
Want the full walkthrough with what not to do? Here is how to clean an iPhone charging port safely.
If you would rather not poke around inside your own phone, that is fair. Most shops charge $25 to $50 to clear a port. We charge $25 and we check this first on every phone that comes in, because there is no reason to sell you a port replacement you do not need.
Cable goes all the way in, no charging icon, no lightning bolt, no lights, nothing. Before you blame the phone, swap the cable. Then swap the wall block. Then try both together.
I cannot tell you how many phones come in here that just needed a different cable. Cheap cables die from the inside and they look perfectly fine doing it. Test with a cable and a block you know work on another device. This costs you nothing and rules out the two most common causes.
This is the test that actually tells you something, and almost nobody runs it.
If your iPhone supports wireless charging, set it on a pad. If it charges wirelessly but will not charge through the cable, your port is bad and the rest of the phone is healthy. That is a port replacement, and it is good news. It is the repair, not the expensive one.
If it will not charge wirelessly either, keep reading, because that points somewhere else.
When neither the port nor the wireless pad will push power into the battery, the problem is usually not the port. It is the charging IC on the logic board. The port is just the doorway. The IC is what actually manages the power once it gets inside, and when that chip fails nothing gets through no matter how you feed it.
That is board level work. It means microsoldering on the logic board, not swapping a part. Shops that do it generally charge $150 to $200, and the price swings a lot depending on who you take it to and how bad the damage is.
We do not do board level work here. I would rather tell you that up front than take your money and hand the phone back the same way it came in.
If the phone shows it is charging and the number sits at one percent and will not climb, that usually points to the battery connector not being fully seated. This is common on a phone that has already been opened for another repair. The connector looks seated and is not quite clicked down.
Everything above is what you can do without equipment. On the bench I do not guess, I measure. I plug a USB tester inline between the block and the phone and read exactly how much power is actually moving.
The one I use: FNIRSI FNB58 USB Tester. It reads voltage, current and power in real time, handles USB-A and USB-C, supports PD and QC, and reads E-Marker data off the cable. If the phone is pulling zero amps, the port is not passing power and I know it immediately instead of guessing.
This is not a tool for someone fixing one phone. It is worth it if you run a shop, repair phones on the side, or you are the person everyone in your family brings their electronics to.
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Here is what we charge, and what the repair generally runs elsewhere so you can tell whether a quote you got is reasonable.
| Repair | iMobile Detroit | Typical range elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Charging fix, lint removal | $25 | $25 to $50 |
| Port replacement | $65 to $99 | $60 to $150 |
| Board level charging IC | We do not do board level | $150 to $200 |
Replacement price moves with the model. Newer phones cost more because the part costs more and the teardown takes longer. Apple no longer publishes a price for charging port repair specifically, and in my experience going through them lands well above what a repair shop charges for the same job.
The diagnosis is free either way. Walk in, we tell you which of the four cases above you are in and what it costs, and you decide from there. Here is our charging port repair page if you want the details on the repair itself, and here is everything else we fix on iPhones.
Two shops can charge very different prices for the same repair and both can be legitimate. The main factors are parts quality, the complexity of the repair, and whether the shop offers a warranty. A shop using cheap aftermarket parts might charge less upfront but the port could fail again in a few months. At iMobile we use quality replacement parts and back every repair with a 30 day warranty. We also do not charge for the diagnosis. You find out what is wrong and what it costs before you spend a single dollar.
A lot of people come in thinking they need a full port replacement when all they actually need is a $25 Charging Fix. Lint builds up inside the port over time and stops the cable from making full contact. It looks like a charging problem but the port itself is fine. We check this first every time. If a fix solves it, that is all we charge you. If the port is genuinely damaged with bent pins or corrosion, then we talk about replacement. No one should be paying $75 for a repair that costs $25 to fix.
Common questions about iPhone charging port repair costs in Detroit.
Free diagnosis. No appointment needed. 20503 Dequindre St, Detroit. Most repairs done the same visit.
Or call (313) 900-1032