But there’s one big exception: Apple, which has used its proprietary Lightning cable for every handset since the iPhone 5 released in 2012 and pretty much all of its iPads, too ...

In 2012, Apple switched to the lightning cable after getting rid of the 30-pin iPhone charger. But the company has slowly been phasing the lightning cable out of its iPad designs.

Apple just made a lot of people’s Lightning cables and accessories suddenly redundant by introducing the new iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro Max. Four phones, not a Lightning port in ...

Now that the iPhone 15 is switching to USB-C, Apple's Lightning cables need a new use. While you can always recycle or donate your mess of cables, you could also get a little cheeky and creative ...

Apple’s latest iPhone, iPod touch and iPod nano ushered in a new era, at least for accessory manufacturers: they ditched the old 30-pin Dock Connector in favor of the new Lightning standard.

But unlike Lightning, it took Apple longer to bring USB-C to its other products, even though it was sold as the connector of the future. In 2016, it was time for the MacBook Pro to get USB-C.

The Lightning connector is an 8-pin standard, but each cable has 16 pins. This way there will always be 8 pins to link up with the contacts in the iPhone 5 whichever way you plug it in.

First, it was the 3.5mm headphone jack. Now, it’s the Lightning cable. Of course, it’s highly unlikely that a change to the universally–accepted USB-C port will be met with the derision that the ...

It's a portable USB cable that's capable of sending power to a Lightning port on an iPhone 5. In our tests, the iPhone charged just as quickly as it did with a standard, official Apple Lightning ...

Why iPhone Cables Break So Easily --YouTube The Lightning connector, which was announced as the successor standard to the Dock connector in September 2012, has a data transfer speed of 480 Mbps ...

Chinese firm iPhone5mod has introduced (via M.I.C. gadget) a new iPhone 5 Flash Lightning Dock, marking one of the first claimed efforts to implement Apple's Lightning connector standard on a mass ...

Apple’s migration of the iPhone from the 30-pin connector to Lightning connector hasn’t been without its issues. Even with the 30-pin adapter, some older high-end peripherals may not work.