Just don’t drop a physical connection at all. Wireless transfer speeds are terrible for large amounts of data.
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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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I give the company ONE more year. Or else iPhone will be the 1st one scrapped from my personal computers lineup. Yes, ahead of MacBook Pro and iPad Pro or AirPods. What they don’t understand is lack of USB type C is also ruining their own ecosystem.
Apple knows what is best for us. We don't need faster then USB2 speeds for transferring videos or files.
Out of curiosity, does the competition have faster connects? Is there a limiting factor with a smaller phone that maybe (I can't believe it) keeps the connection limited?
Out of curiosity, does the competition have faster connects? Is there a limiting factor with a smaller phone that maybe (I can't believe it) keeps the connection limited?
No surprise. Apple is not going to invest anymore in the Lightning port. They are going to move to USB-C or be courageous and drop the port all together.
I don't think the iPhone supports 6E, but you still should be getting faster than 400Mb/s. I get about 600-700Mb on my Wifi6. (with an iPhone 13 Mini and a Flip4)
The 14 doesn't support 6E either I don't think. That's another thing they are behind on.
The problem is that while some want to move, there are a lot that will bitch and complain about all their Lightning cables and accessories no longer working. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Regardless, it is the future so the 15 really needs to make the move.
Yea they speak as if AirDrop even worked reliably every time, needless to say if you even need compatibility with the.. the.. the.. world? consumer echo chamber.
Try holding the devices very close together. It doesn't matter how congested WiFi is in your area if the antennas are a few inches apart.
Yet Apple believes USB 2.0 is adequate for ‘pros’…
They could at least sell an AirDrop to USB-C dongle.
Or they are using existing Lightning inventory from their warehouse right next to their pile of 5400rpm drives.
They probably believe “regular consumers” don’t know the difference between USB 2.0 and anything better.
If all you are sending is smaller files, yes, it usually works just fine. It you try to use it on larger files (10-30GB), the transfer fails like 9/10 times. YOU might be able to go all wireless, but most of us still care to have the fastest and most reliable method to transfer data. Wireless speeds are somewhat catching up to wired speeds, but they still won't be as reliable as a wired connection. WiFi 7 is still a couple of years out at least before it's affordable enough for the consumer market. It'll probably take even longer for Apple to implement it into their products judging by how they are dragging their feet on 6E.
This alone due to the huge sizes of photos and ProRes videos is why you should not get this. Sad. They should have done better. Everything to get people to upgrade yearly. Apple is changing into a money first UX third company. Exactly the moves great companies did before they fell down from their throne. I really hope Apple is going to do better.
Embarrassing.
This is What Apple is these days all upsell and nonsense
This is What Apple is these days all upsell and nonsense
Lol, someone give this guy an Oscar™.This isn't true, as the article clearly mentions, you can use AirDrop over WiFi. The max speed is 9.6 Gbps on WiFi 6.
Of course, there may be some interference, but the phone will be next to the laptop. I use AirDrop all the time to transfer to other people's machines or my MacBook, iPad, iPhone. Definitely the way to go.
BTW, WiFi6E will be much better once we get it. It uses more spectrum, such as 6 GHZ, with wider bands of spectrum, a single channel is still 9.6 Gbps, but perhaps they will bond channels for additional transfer rate as they do with cellular.
Wi-Fi 6, explained: how fast it really is
The next generation brings more than just faster speeds.www.theverge.com
Same but XS Max for me. Though if it isn't there next year I'm probably gonna have to upgrade.
Apple continues to tout the iPhone as a pro device used by pros but continues to make this a complete headache for anyone attempting to do professional work.
Using this on a television show twice last year proved how inefficient Lightning is when shooting ProRes - it's completely unacceptable that we're limited to USB 2.0 speeds when copying massive 80GB+ files
Using this on a television show twice last year proved how inefficient Lightning is when shooting ProRes - it's completely unacceptable that we're limited to USB 2.0 speeds when copying massive 80GB+ files
You do realize not everyone in the world ONLY moves photos, right? You do realize some of us deal with files on our devices that are 10+ GB, right? Some of us have 256GB or more devices that can handle the files... AirDrop is absolutely not reliable for transferring anything larger than 10GB. It fails 9/10 times, in which case I have to use a cloud service. That means waiting for it to upload and then download again to my device, which takes even longer.
Agreed. I use the lighting cable to download photos from my device to my computer (I don't want to store my photos and videos in the cloud) and it deletes what it downloaded from the phone so I don't run out of storage. AirDrop is fine for a small handful of files, but it's not an acceptable replacement for downloading hundreds of photos.
Also, to anyone suggesting to AirDrop massive 4K ProRes videos from the phone to a Mac - I attempted to do this but often had transfers fail. It wasn't worth the uncertainty, especially when all you have for a status is a little copy icon in the Finder.
Again, all video "professionals" use 3.0 card readers and camera media when shooting content.
Again, all video "professionals" use 3.0 card readers and camera media when shooting content.