{"id":262192,"date":"2026-06-02T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:20:09","slug":"ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.5.1 for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Fixes Low-Battery Charging Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem\/\">iOS 26.5.1 for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Fixes Low-Battery Charging Problem<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 13:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Apple released iOS 26.5.1 today, a small update that targets a potentially big problem if you find yourself with a dead <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iPhone 17<\/span><\/span>, <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iPhone 17 Pro<\/span><\/span>, iPhone 17 Pro Max or <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iPhone Air<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">For &#8220;a small number of users,&#8221; according to Apple&#8217;s note accompanying the update, when the battery gets nearly completely drained, recharging via cable would not work. The workaround has been to replenish power wirelessly (provided a MagSafe-compatible charger was handy).<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"An iOS 26.5.1 software update screen from an iPhone.\" height=\"675.2732951587715\" width=\"1200\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_caption g-inner-spacing-right-small g-text-xxsmall\"><\/p>\n<p>Update to iOS 26.5.1 in the iPhone Settings app.<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-inner-spacing-right-small g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall g-color-text-meta g-text-xxxsmall\">Screenshot by Jeff Carlson\/CNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>iOS 26.5.1 fixes this issue. The update appears only on iPhone 17 and iPhone Air models that are affected by the change.<\/p>\n<p>If you own one of these models, go to\u00a0<strong>Settings<\/strong>, tap\u00a0<strong>General<\/strong>\u00a0and then tap\u00a0<strong>Software Update<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Apple has also issued MacOS Tahoe 26.5.1, an update for Mac models with M5 processors that &#8220;addresses an issue for enterprise users where Macs with an M5 chip could unexpectedly shut down when using certain content filtering network extensions.&#8221; That update appears to be available for all Macs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iOS 26.5.1 for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air Fixes Low-Battery Charging Problem https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/ios-26-5-1-for-iphone-17-and-iphone-air-fixes-low-battery-charging-problem\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/d181565ccb337ed956dc4a1644602d9b25e24d64\/hub\/2025\/10\/24\/3c5210b7-769d-478c-9c7a-5e3d2396eb71\/ios-26-iphone-battery-charge.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,77,80],"class_list":["post-262192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262194,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262192\/revisions\/262194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}