My dad bought one brand new from Best Buy. Got a really good price on it (including a price match that seemed a bit wrong, but he got it even cheaper). It’s absolutely new, where he asked me to help set it up and I broke all the factory packaging seals. It wouldn’t turn on out of the box. So I tried charging it. I needed to give him a USB-C power adapter since my parents don’t have anything that requires USB-C until now; they still use USB-A to Lightning on Apple devices. All it does is flash the Apple logo for a couple of seconds and it goes off. Maybe repeats after 20 seconds.
He asked me to go with him to an Apple Store to have it looked at. They originally said they couldn’t without an appointment but then he asked someone else and the looked at it, but then made an appointment for an actual tech to look at it. They saw how it just flashed the Apple logo briefly rather than showing a charging indicator.
So he has the appointment but a friend of his said that it should be left charging overnight. So he’s going to do that and see if it resolves itself.
He asked me to go with him to an Apple Store to have it looked at. They originally said they couldn’t without an appointment but then he asked someone else and the looked at it, but then made an appointment for an actual tech to look at it. They saw how it just flashed the Apple logo briefly rather than showing a charging indicator.
So he has the appointment but a friend of his said that it should be left charging overnight. So he’s going to do that and see if it resolves itself.