Apple Releases USB-C to Lightning Adapter for iPhone 15 and Shorter Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable

[zakarhino]

this is just ridiculous. 30$ for a dongle when you can buy a 3$ usb c cable anywhere

It's probably for those with a hard lightning connection for some accessory. I'm glad they made this adapter.

 

[CarAnalogy]

You could just buy a straight usb c to 3.5mm adapter for $10.

I don’t know why this dongle exists. It’s a fraction of the cost to buy a cable that avoids the adapter altogether in almost every scenario I can think of.

Mostly joking.

Yeah this dongle at $30 is kind of ridiculous.

 

[Gator5000e]

I wonder if apple will make a USB-C dock with the audio out plug? I use the Lightning one all the time.

 

[jaytv111]

Man, I don't know if this new port/adapter situation will break CarPlay in my Prius.

If your car has a USB-A port, you get a USB-A to USB-C cable and it should have 0 problems.

If your car is hardwired with a Lightning cable (I don't know if any Carplay cars did this but let's say somewhere there is one), you use the adapter from Lightning to USB-C.

Same if you have a USB-C port in your car, use the included cable.

Carplay always used the USB 2.0 protocol, changing cables means nothing to the protocol itself.

 

[MacFan782040]

I thought we were supposed to get matching colors braided cables

 

[xmlninja]

Will it be possible to use this with the iPhone 15 pro? Would love to dock it with a 4k monitor as well

 

[CarAnalogy]

It's probably for those with a hard lightning connection for some accessory. I'm glad they made this adapter.

It is better that it exists than if it did not exist, but at $30 there are cheaper and better options for almost any scenario. I think it's just so that they can say people don't have to buy new cables.

 

[djc6]

ONE MORE THING!!!

 

[Analog Kid]

Good, glad the EU got all that ewaste under control... 🙄

 

[lesnouu]

Will it be possible to use this with the iPhone 15 pro? Would love to dock it with a 4k monitor as well

the ipad can handle those, don’t see a reason for it not to work w/ iphone

 

[spazzcat]

this is just ridiculous. 30$ for a dongle when you can buy a 3$ usb c cable anywhere

This is not for cables, it is for hardware that has a lighting port on it.

 

[spazzcat]

Man, I don't know if this new port/adapter situation will break CarPlay in my Prius.

Do you use USB for your plug in your car? If so, you can make your CarPlay wireless with an adapter.

 

[FelixDerKater]

$19 maybe. $29 is a bit silly even compared to their typical markup.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

The future is here.

 

[lesnouu]

The future is here.

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and then plug-in the 3.5mm to lightning adapter for APM

 

[lesnouu]

Do you use USB for your plug in your car? If so, you can make your CarPlay wireless with an adapter.

Do they work on aftermarket head units?

 

[Archmage]

USB 3.1 data transfer speeds up to 10 Gbps

It is now properly called just “USB 10Gbps” (and heck, 3.1 is an old spec to reference. It was subsumed by 3.2)

 

[Gasu E.]

You could just buy a straight usb c to 3.5mm adapter for $10.

I don’t know why this dongle exists. It’s a fraction of the cost to buy a cable that avoids the adapter altogether in almost every scenario I can think of.

If the need for this adapter is so obscure you can't think of it, why is everyone complaining about the price? It seems like a really great price for the three extremely eccentric people who might actually need it.

 

[Royksöpp]

So can it be used to charge the 1st gen Apple pencil with the iPad 10?

 

[Gasu E.]

this is just ridiculous. 30$ for a dongle when you can buy a 3$ usb c cable anywhere

Well, obviously this is for the three people who, for some reason, don't want that $3 USB-C cable. $29 seems perfectly reasonable for an option to handle some obscure edge case.

 

[lesnouu]

and then plug-in the 3.5mm to lightning adapter for APM

 

[Iscariote]

I still use the 30 pin to lightning adaptor in my car, so I’m gonna be going from 30 pin, to lightning, to USB-C… anymore dongles we can throw in there?

There are 30pin to USB C adapters on Amazon.

 

[slvrscoobie]

whew, I was kinda wondering what my Seek Thermal camera would do. I tried to use it with a C to Apple Pencil charger but it didnt work.
glad they released this. actually surprised this didnt come out with the switch to USBC on the iPad Pro / iPad.

 

[MrRom92]

There are 30pin to USB C adapters on Amazon.

There are 30pin to USB C adapters on Amazon.

Wouldn’t risk it, 3rd party lightning accessories for audio rarely functioned properly like apple’s devices, so I don’t know that I’d trust a 3rd party USB-C accessory to function correctly either.

 

[squirrellydw]

I'm going to use my USB to 30 pin cable and then a 30 pin to lighting adapter and then lighting to USB C adapter. Yeah, that should work.