Originally Posted by
EricGreenstein Thank you for the advice. Not sure if it is the same but I did back up my phone and hard reset. Still have the issue though.
When it happened to me, I got the thinnest, sharpest instrument I could find, which was a precision knife (Xacto brand), and I folded a good quality paper towel over it once, turning it into a mini scrubbing pad, if you will. Then I scrubbed the inside of the USB C port several times.
Then, to prevent it from happening again, I switched to magnetic charging cables. The bit that stays put in the USB port doesn't let anything else into the port, including potentially wet, oily or otherwise harmful substances (like lentil stew--yes, my magnetic bit saved me.)