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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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But they claim to want to delight users while using an outdated form of connectivity. Usually they at least give something that isn’t outdated and make money off of it. So congrats to Apple for selling a premium device that is still sticking users with a glorified USB 2.0 cable? The least they could do is reinvent the wheel by creating an alternate connector for modern USB and licensing it for a profit. Please note my sarcasm.
Even with that: I'm at 11hrs to restore/migrate data to my new 14PM from my 13PM (I have 1.5Gbps up and down, business connection, fiber directly into my premises, I'm the only person on my wifi network and it tests absolutely perfectly for all other uses).
Wireless isn't ready for backup/restore of any appreciable size device.
Lol I’m fine I just need you to keep buying apple products to help my Apple Stock thank you 😊. The hell with the data transfer speed
Simply bizarre. This was done seven years ago on the iPad with Lightning. Why obsolete bandwidth on the iPhone for I/O. And it's unfortunate because the Lightning port stays cleaner than USB-C which I'm regularly having to dig compressed fluff out of to get a clean connection. If Apple and the bureaucrats were smart, they'd set up the licensing of Lightning with both USB 2 and USB 3 capability to open source, making it a useful alternative to USB-C for smaller and/or more dirt-prone items and making use of the vast number of Lightning accessories already there.
Because in crowded situations Airdrop fails to work for me - wired would be much more reliable
Ok, airdrop is a great protocol that is only applicable in apple ecosystem, but I have a PC. How does that work?
Besides, large file transfer fails almost all the time in my experience, just as unreliable as files app transferring files from external storage. No one wants a solution that fails when it counts, regardless of marketing or other people’s “testaments”, especially true when user has little to no control on how to configure it.
Yeah, they are way too big to fail, and avid apple fans and fanatics will defend apple in every turn, I would call that hinders innovation as much as “using USB-C port”.
lol what an absolute joke of a phone. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models feature an upgraded rear camera system that can shoot 48-megapixel ProRAW photos, which retain more detail in the image file for more editing flexibility. 48-megapixel ProRAW photos are very large files that clock in at around 75MB each, according to Apple, and sometimes even larger.
Despite these very large image sizes, we have confirmed that the Lightning connector on the iPhone 14 Pro models remains limited to USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480 Mbps like previous models, meaning that transferring full-resolution 48-megapixel ProRAW photos to a Mac or other device with a Lightning cable will take a long time.
Apple recommends using iCloud Photos to access ProRAW files in full resolution on a Mac or other Apple devices, or to transfer the photos off an iPhone wirelessly by using AirDrop, but the Lightning connector certainly remains a bottleneck.
Back in 2015, the original iPad Pro's Lightning connector supported USB 3.0, which was capable of up to 5 Gbps speeds based on the spec at the time, but Apple has evidently chosen not to move in this direction for the iPhone. Fortunately, rumors suggest that all iPhone 15 models will be equipped with a USB-C port instead of Lightning, which should result in speeds up to 10 Gbps or even up to 40 Gbps with Thunderbolt 3 support.
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As if we need yet one more stupid reason to fuel the “if you don’t like X done by apple use android phone”. Not to mention cable connection will never truely die, just like pen and paper, which still thrive in day to day life after hundreds of years.
This is a issue and also Apple needs to upgrade the storage space you can get, I am using 4TB of iCloud and it is almost full.
With the new iPhone file sizes they need to upgrade it or offer bigger plans.
With the new iPhone file sizes they need to upgrade it or offer bigger plans.
If they want to sell more phones the iPhone 15 needs to have an M1/M2/M3 level chip, USB-C and then can fully replace a computer. All you need is an iPhone, then plug it into your USB-C cable which is hooked to a display, mouse and keyboard and will run FULL MacOS when connected this way. It would cannibalize their product line but it would be the next revolution in home computing. Imagine if every computer lab in every school just went to bare bones hardware and you hook up your phone and get your own computer wherever you go. The experience is way better and its way cheaper for the schools
The could’ve given us usb-c and promotion last year. But they stretch out the introduction of the new features out over several years.
It would be nice, but there's no way. The iPhone case would have to grow a lot just to manage the cooling needed. The 14 Pro gets hot enough just setting it up, but you want to put a constant high load on it by making it a general purpose computer. Mine started throttling and dimming the screen about 3 minutes after I started setting it up. Cooling is another area where Apple has to up their game...
I have a 14PM and will be updating to the 15PM whether it has usb-c or not. That’s never gonna be a deal breaker for me.
I will keep my launch-day 11 Pro Max another year.
My next iPhone will have USB-C and 8 GB of RAM, not less.
My next iPhone will have USB-C and 8 GB of RAM, not less.