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USB-C matters because every other phone uses it. So many households will have different products types, not just Apple. Many businesses in the same situation. Many cars here now have USB-C ports. There’s still far more USB-C phones being sold than iPhones. So it’s more of a convenience piece to have USB-C / one type of connection. You might have MagSafe everywhere, but it’s not for everyone at all times. Sometimes you need / want a fast charging solution or need to transfer data via cable.
Think about what you are saying!! I haven't needed to transfer data from Phone via cable since I needed to sync music library in iTunes!! I have maybe 15 MagSafe power adapters, Belkin had a $10 sale a couple years ago and I bought 10 at that time!! They are everywhere!!!!!!!! As for a CarPlay, you can just permanently leave any cable - lightning, USB-C, micro-USB in the car and modern cars are going wireless CarPlay anyway. And it's bad to continually charge your phone all day in the car. Leave your house in the morning at 95% charge? Immediately plug in to use CarPlay? Bad for phone's battery. So, I humbly ask, when do you need a USB-C ever?

* The car's USB-C port? Good...lightning on one end, USB-C on the other.
 
Dang, I was really hoping for Wednesday instead. I won’t be able to watch live on Tuesday and will have to avoid all news until I’m able to replay the keynote that night. Bummer.
I’ll have to listen to the keynote from my phone, since I can’t stop and watch what‘s announced. I’ll watch the keynote once I get off at work at 5. I just May put in a request to switch my off day to the keynote date.
 
I wonder if Apple is sending out invites for the iPhone 15 event by the end of this month.

Tuesday, August 29, 2023? 🤔

Last year invites:

I hope they do, so that I can switch my off day.
 
Think about what you are saying!! I haven't needed to transfer data from Phone via cable since I needed to sync music library in iTunes!! I have maybe 15 MagSafe power adapters, Belkin had a $10 sale a couple years ago and I bought 10 at that time!! They are everywhere!!!!!!!! As for a CarPlay, you can just permanently leave any cable - lightning, USB-C, micro-USB in the car and modern cars are going wireless CarPlay anyway. And it's bad to continually charge your phone all day in the car. Leave your house in the morning at 95% charge? Immediately plug in to use CarPlay? Bad for phone's battery. So, I humbly ask, when do you need a USB-C ever?

* The car's USB-C port? Good...lightning on one end, USB-C on the other.
I drive a vehicle that’s on the hot list of the manufacturers list of cars most stolen, so unfortunately I can’t leave a cable in my car. I have only USB-A so I have to either use an adapter or buy USB-A to C cables, which I have no problem with. I would love to leave a cable in the car. I have to use CarPlay for navigation as my truck don’t have navigation without it, but I do have wireless charging. I recently bought an adapter to use Wireless CarPlay.
 
Thanks I'll do that.
Quick question about upgrading. Let's say I want to transfer all my imessage or text but I don't currently backup imessages to the cloud. Isn't there a way to copy the phones now as long as they're next to each other? Will it also do my esim at that set up point?
Guess I need to go watch youtube lol

It SHOULD transfer them all during the quick setup process, but unless you are backing up to a computer instead of iCloud know that in the case of doing an iOS update on your computer each time you do an update you risk something going haywire and potentially losing all your data on your phone. Yes, it's a long shot, but not a 0% risk.

I know many have privacy concerns with uploading to the iCloud and other cloud services, but if you live in a country where you can enable Advanced Data Protection in iCloud that would prevent anyone, including Apple, from looking at your data while it's in the cloud. The encryption keys to your data live only on your phone for the majority of the data you store there.

You may want to check that information out here - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

The same with your eSIM. Depending on carrier it may assign you a new eSIM that would activate during your setup process, or if you already have an eSIM it would ask if you wanted to move that eSIM during the setup process I would imagine.

I went from a ProMax 13 or ProMax 14 and didn't have a prior eSIM (I went from physical to eSIM) so it deactivated my physical SIM and then activated the eSIM on my new phone. I suspect this year since I already have one it will probably just copy my eSIM over to my new phone, but I will have to see whether it does that or gives me a new one.
 

A confirmation for the September 12 Apple event?

Apple NPI = New Product Launch

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Source: Majin Bu
 
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