Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The USB-C iPad Pro can charge your iPhone, but you have to buy one of Apple’s expensive USB-C to Lightning cables. Or do you? With a USB-C-to-microUSB cable, and the ...

Apple is ditching the Lightning chargers, which have powered every iPhone since 2012, with the upcoming iPhone 15 models and will instead adopt the more universal USB-C cables that can charge, ...

Apple's Lightning Connector is dead—on its newest iPhones, at least. Thanks to European Union regulators, all phones, tablets, and cameras will be required to use the USB-C charging standard by 2024, ...

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 ...

The dream of carrying one power cable for all your devices is becoming a reality. But things aren’t as simple as they sound. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen, The Times’s personal tech columnist, was ...

Everyone knows that the Lightning cable that comes with a new iPhone is not very high quality. The white gets dirty really quickly and the material (TPE) tears with too much bending and coiling and ...

Apple has launched its latest lineup of iPhone 15 phones, but in addition to the upgrades, it made a major change, ditching the Lightning connector that has been a staple since 2012’s iPhone 5 in ...

The all-new Native Union Belt Cable Duo stands on its own as the only Apple-certified Lightning cable that can also be used as a USB-C cable with your other devices. Apple doesn't often publicly ...

I'm not sure if USB C to LIghtning cables have the extra wiring to enable the 3.0 speeds. Certainly seems as thick as a USB A to Lightning cable. I don't have a previous gen iPad Pro to test with, but ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s all but certain that the next iPhone will have a USB-C port. But the future of charging may be no port at ...