sharp pair of tweezers or a needle or a toothpicks should be able to help. tons of instructions on how to do it in this thread, but I will add my 2 cents as a phone tech and say that if it's a lightening port, you want to keep your tool as vertically in the middle of the port as possible while scraping horizontally. for USBC, keep your tool as close to the walls as possible while avoiding the center "tab". this is so you don't scrape the contacts. if you do that, you will need a port replacement (usually 80-100$ on most devices). once you scrape as much as you can out. you can use an old toothbrush or whatever works to brush the port clean with some isopropyl to clean any dirt on the contacts, which will come off easily now that it's not being supported but the other debris you cleaned out with the tool.

even if it were broken, this would be such an easy fix if phone companies wouldn't make it impossible to repair their phones. its freaking infuriating.

Look into magnetic charging adapters. I'm just putting them on my wife's devices out of the box now.

Possibility 1 the port is full of crap, clean the port with a thin stiff piece of plastic.

Possibility 2 the port is broken, treat your equipment better.

Possibility 3 the cable is bad, replace the cable and treat your equipment better.

Charging ports wear out if used often, which is why I usually charge wirelessly and keep a lint cap on my port.

Huge thanks to people in this thread. USB-C stopped charging reliably on my phone a few months back, tried clearing the port with compressed air but no joy, so I started using wireless charging. Spent 5mins today picking out a surprising amount of lint with a narrow toothpick and it works like new!

If it makes you feel better, my phone just did the thing where it installed an update and now everything is running noticably worse.

Mine started the same thing a few weeks ago. I tried cleaning out the charging port but after a while of scrapinc I gave up since nothing was coming out and I couldn’t see any more lint in there. The problem persists. I am confident that no one in the world has it as difficult as me right now.

USB C? See if it isn't full of garbage accumulated inside. I had to use a needle to scratch it out. Shit was so dense it was pretty difficult to clean. Eventually (~20 min of intensive scratching), I managed to clean it and I got rid of the problem.

Until I found the problem, I ended up buying bs. Another charger and an inductive charger.

Try with a different/new cable.

The contacts on a USB-C cable can become fatigued and lose the tension needed to maintain a solid connection, which can cause this issue.

I am sorry for your loss..

Most of the time its because you use your phone too much when its charging, never happens to my phones cause i leave em alone to charge.

I only ever had this problem with micro USB. Thank god we abandoned that shitty connector

Got myself a Fairphone 5 just a few weeks ago. With this, switching the charging port is a 20€ + 10min time investment.

Time to fish out the impacted lint from the charge hole with a pin! You’d be surprised how much lint can get jammed up in there.

https://www.ifixit.com/Search?doctype=guide&query=Charging+port

This and also battery wear is why I charge my phone exclusively with wireless charging with all the fast charging toggles turned off.