Apple's replacement of the charging port on the iPhone 15 with USB-C will require some user charging changes, but your old AC adapters, batteries, and cables aren't trash. Here's what you need to know ...

Apple could technically kill off Lightning on the iPhone and still maintain an iron-fisted grip over its MFi program, but the outcry over a switch to USB-C might prove too costly for it to happen ...

Sure we have wireless charging and cloud data back ups, but we still rely on cables for a lot of our power and data management. iOS users went through a connector transition several years ago, moving ...

It’s several generations since Apple replaced the old-style connectors on iPhones and iPads with the smaller Lightning variety. Today, the main rival of Lightning is the USB-C port favoured by Android ...

With USB 3.1, the latest iteration of the serial-data protocol, comes a new smaller and universal connector: USB Type-C, the USB-IF's answer to Apple's Lightning connector (Figure 1). Even Apple ...

The iPhone 15 and 15 Pro will ditch the Lightning cable in favor of the more universal USB-C for the first time in more than 10 years. Reading time 3 minutes After more than a decade of use, Apple’s ...

We’ve known for awhile that the next version of USB will copy Apple’s Lightning connector with a reversible design. Now the next-gen connector is ready for production, which means you’ll start seeing ...

While most Android smartphones use USB Type-C as a connector for charging and data transfer, Apple continues to equip the iPhone 14 series released in 2022 with a Lightning connector. Meanwhile, Greg ...

I remember being envious of my friends with iPhones. Before the Lightning cable’s debut in 2012, I’d never experienced such a feeling. Apple’s 30-pin connector was proprietary and a little finicky. In ...