The MacBook Pro, Mac Studio and Mac Pro all have Thunderbolt 4 ports. The MacBook Air only advertises its ports as USB4/Thunderbolt 3, though.
Lightning is an accessory device and charging cable connector. There has never been a higher speed lightning cable on the market.
USB 3.2 is not a speed. It is a specification - it expanded USB 3.0 with new sections that say how you can optionally build devices, cabling and accessories that go faster. There are marks, like "USB 40 Gbps" to put on packaging/labelling and on cable connectors to say "I can go this fast if everything else supports it". Obviously, nobody uses these.
That has been supported for a very, very long time - apps can basically expose "folders", and there's a bespoke protocol as part of backup to let a computer export and import files into those folders.
When you say "dont care about saving battery", do you mean 'no longer need to try to make a charge last all day' or 'no longer care about whether the battery lasts more than 3 months before it needs replacement'?
For lightning? It did, on the 2017 iPad Pro models. However, higher speed lightning was only ever meant for accessories like their USB 3.1 camera connector dongle - they apparently had no intention of adding market confusion over 'charging' vs 'data' lightning cables.
Only the A17 Bionic is getting faster data transfer speeds. Last year's A16 SoC does not support USB 3 or 4, and it is rumored the A16 will be used in the non-pro iPhone 15.
Imagine if the 15 Pro got an M3 SoC instead!
An M3 Mobile would look good in marketing even if it’s just an M3 with half the number of CPU and GPU cores much like the A15 was to the M2 and A14 to the M1.
With a few caveats. The cable that comes with the S23U is USB 2.0 only (at least in certain markets), and the transfer speed is apparently restricted to lower speeds by default unless some settings are changed.
We all do.
But given that USB 3.2 1x1 and USB 3.2 2x2 is getting increasingly commonly nowadays, Apple could easily implement USB 3.2 1x1 on iPhone 15 USB Type C port by just implementing the right features on the Broadcom I/O chipset.
Great if you plan on replacing your battery once a year because fast charging kills your battery and FAST!
In case you’re not aware lightning technically supports up to usb 3 speeds, see https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/13/9732454/apple-ipad-pro-usb-3-0-lightning-connector
It looks like going from the Phone to the Mac is possible ONLY for applications that have defined their files as “shareable”. Wired transfer is possible today, in both directions, for applications that support the feature. I can see how this would be a security feature as, if someone has access to ones phone connected to ones unlocked Mac, the data they can get to on the phone is limited.
Lightning is USB 2.0.
USB 3.0 is not enough i need thunderbolt 5, 100 Gbps speeds at least, i transfer like 1 TB data from my phone to PC every day.
i can brag with my friends and on social media, i have thunderbolt 4 but i never transfer data to my phone using wired connection.
useful to 0.001% of the people, and we all pay more money just to brag about it.
This is garbage reporting. It is almost certainly a USB4 port.
A lot of data on iOS apps is stored in sqlite databases rather than as files so there are no files to see. It would be nice to have more transparent access to the full file system rather than the mediated interface but it can still be useful even with the limitations.
So, the way the system is currently, one gets 100% access to the applications that store files for transfer back and forth, and no access to the DRM’d stuff (videos, music, etc.) and no access to the sqlite databases which wouldn’t be useful anyway. I’m guessing that’s likely the furthest Apple’s gonna go for anyone without a copy of Xcode. Which, for anyone tinkering, they’d have downloaded Xcode already anyway.
