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How Can I Tell if I Have an Official Apple Lightning Cable & Charging Wall Block?
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How Can I Tell if I Have an Official Apple Lightning Cable & Charging Wall Block?
If you bought it from Apple?
Lots are close, nearly identical. But this is one way to tell a fake from a genuine. The real lightning cable (right) does not have a third indentation on the USB plug like the knock off on the left.
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The USB power adapters are a bit easier to tell. The left are both real (different generations), right is fake.
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The quickest way to tell is a tingling sensation.
Or electrocution. But, hey, they saved a few yuan.
my fake one doesn't have a third indentation on the USB plug.
the way i find if its real or fake is looking for the 'Design by California' imprint. you can easily rub off the print on a fake one.
Used to be that the genuine Apple USB cables would have the Apple logo on the opposite side from the USB symbol. Not sure if they still do that. The lightening end of the cable is oval-shaped, not perfectly square on the white part. Third party cables are usually square.
The USB power adapters will say "Designed by Apple in California" and often "Made in Japan" but not always I think. The US ones will have two prongs of equal size.
The USB power adapters will say "Designed by Apple in California" and often "Made in Japan" but not always I think. The US ones will have two prongs of equal size.
Sorry I didn't have my own cable on hand to closely examine it.
They apparently removed the Apple logo at some point. My USB adapter says Apple Japan as well as made in china. The white around the lightening end if the cable is rounded as previously stated. I have observed that a lot of third party cables are more square. We all know Apple has a thing for rounded corners