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iPhone 14 Pro's Lightning Connector Still Limited to USB 2.0 Speeds Despite Large 48MP ProRAW Photos
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No, no and no. Because if they did there would be capabilities and features that would have already been implemented such as usb-c.
Apple is several years (decades) into social media, I’m sure this feedback is seen and evaluated and prioritized.
THIS is why I'm holding out for the iPhone 15 models in 2023, likely the first models to use the same USB Type C port as the current iPad Air and Mini models (up to possibly 40 watts initial charging rate per PD 3.0 spec, Thunderbolt 3/USB 3.2 Gen 2 data transfer rate of 10 gigabits per second).
Same message. Prioritizing doesn’t mean they ever get addressed. See usb c as an example.
They're waiting to introduce it as a "feature". Hopefully next year will be the breaking point.
You can go to Apple’s site and under specs for the iPhone it will say:
- Wi‑Fi 6 (802.11ax) with 2x2 MIMO
(2 total streams/antennas).
They don’t advertise lack of HT160 support, but you’d know once connected to any capable router and it’s only linking at “1200 Mbps” link rate even in ideal conditions, rather than “2400” (Max link @HT160 for two streams). Link rates don’t mean you will get said speed (only theoretical), max sustained speeds are always significantly less than the link rate like maybe 60-70% of connected rate at peak.
To have a 9.6 Gbps link you’d need 8x streams @ HT160, you’d be mostly looking at routers for something like that, I know of no client side device that has that many streams/antennas. Even most routers also top out at 4x streams per band. The NETGEAR RAX120 /Asus AX89X which use the same Qualcomm chipset support 8x streams on a single 5Ghz band but only @ HT80. Having that many streams makes more sense router/AP side as they can connect to multiple clients at once using MU-MIMO, which Apple clients don’t support, probably because the difference wasn’t night and day and Broadcom chipsets had issues with MU-MIMO earlier (at the time of Wi-Fi-5 aka AC), unlike Qualcomm or Intel Wi-Fi chipsets.
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Um what if you have a windows device? I looked up how to airdrop from iPhone to windows and the steps are ridiculous. No typical person can figure that out.
Thank you. Very informative. Do you have any WiFi 6E routers that you like/recommend?
Are their any USB-c clients that will do WiFi 6E that you know of?
Presumably iFixit tells the chipsets used for WiFi in the iPhones and the MacBooks.
USB-C itself has nothing to do with WiFi.
If you already have a decent (2nd gen WiFi-5/AC router) like the NETGEAR R7800 or Asus AC86U you should be fine probably both not worth upgrading to AX/WiFi-6 yet. AX nearly doubles 2.4 GHz throughput but 5 GHz on WiFi-6 in real world is about 20-25% faster when compared to the best WiFi-5 models. Right now only the latest Windows laptops and Android phones support 6E (6Ghz band).
The NETGEAR RAXE500 or Asus GT-AXE11000 are pretty decent WiFi-6E models if you really want one but are pricey. I usually have the latest router only because I get them free for beta testing.
One last thing is I would not buy a new router till about 6 months to preferably a year into release (to iron out issues) or you will end up being essentially a paid beta tester and may be dealing with angry family members lol…. Regardless of brand
As for WiFi chipsets Apple uses Broadcom in all its devices as far as I know. Qualcomm is usually better at actually implementing advertised features in a more functional way ie MU-MIMO but more expensive and probably not worth cost from Apple’s perspective for minor features/with little gain for most users.
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I was thinking about getting a WiFi 6E client that would plug into the USB-C port and then use the 6E router. The Netgear router you mentioned is nearly 2 years old, I'd think it would be stable enough by now.....
Thank you for time answering my questions.
Do you even know what wireless chargers are? They are coils – the materials used for a single wireless charger could produce dozens of wires and on top of that they have wires themselves. So you have succesfully substituted a wire with a wire, a coil and a circuitboard. All of which will be obsolete fairly quickly because wireless charging is an infant technology. I hope they snuff it out before it gets too bad.
80Mbps ~ 10 MB/s , and a single 48M RAW file is about 80 ~ 100 MBs large.
8 seconds for just one photo? Not so cool in 2022.
I think I read somewhere that the money Apple receives from third parties is basically offset by the components sent to them for the construction of these lightning cables. In short, it’s not just free money for Apple. There’s actually work and deliverables expected on Apple’s end as well.
Yet I have Wifi 6 and an iPhone 13 and just tested transferring a 4 GB video to my NAS which limited to 25 MB/s. Yet my Mac can transfer to my NAS at around 65-90 MB/s
That’s really slow. We have a Netgear router & cable modem (not 6E) and we get 10 to 20 times that transfer speed.
This is why I don't want Apple Car and Apple VR. Apple has shown it cannot focus enough attention on more than one thing at once. Macs got stale and frustrating between 2013 and 2019/2020 when they apologized as PR/legally as they could. Apple has been knocking it out of the park with M1 systems, and now iPhones are starting to lack and get stale.
He said 25 MB/s which is the same as 200 Mbps - Megabytes vs Megabits, you aren’t getting ten times that, it would be impossible. The iPhone has a 2 stream Wi-Fi setup at HT80. At the max 1200 Mbps link rate you probably peak at around real world 800–850 Mbps (100 MB/s) in ideal conditions.
I will trust your science on that, however downloads to computers and transferring files around the house (not on the iPhones) go faster still.
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