iPhone 15 Pro Rumored to Feature Thunderbolt Port With Significant Advantage Over Lightning

[J___o___h___n]

Thought they were going portliness?

At home I only wireless charge. I thought portliness would be fine until I remembered I use the plug my phone into my car for CarPlay as I don't have wireless CarPlay. I only used my port in the car so hang USB-C with or without thunderbolt sounds good to me.

 

[erikkfi]

I'm looking forward to Apple's self-congratulations for putting thunderbolt on an iPhone after being forced to switch the connector.

 

[munpip214]

Don’t expect them to include a thunderbolt cable though.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Don’t expect them to include a thunderbolt cable though.

I agree. Also, it will be best to buy the current thunderbolts before hand. Apple may increase the prices of Thunderbolt cables next year.

 

[Cheruman]

They’ll just make all the chargers lightning at the plug end instead

 

[1885507]

I would've been more excited to see port-less setup with data transfer over MagSafe; that would be cool, even cooler if it was USB 3 or Thunderbolt speeds.

 

[lddhtx]

If iPhone 15 Pro series get Thunderbolt ports, then I’ll bet they will also get an M-series chip and support for Stage Manager via external display.

 

[quaresma]

Thank you EU!

 

[gaximus]

I really wanted a USB C port on my iPhone, but now that the EU is saying its mandatory I really want Apple to go port-less.

 

[bradl]

Don’t expect them to include a thunderbolt cable though.

Didn't they just get sued and lost in Brazil for not including anything to charge the iPhone with?

BL.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I really wanted a USB C port on my iPhone, but now that the UK is saying its mandatory I really want Apple to go port-less.

Portless will lead to a slower charging/data transfer speed. Don’t think that would be ideal.

 

[mrr]

I would like the Pro Max to support the Apple Pencil.

 

[dannyyankou]

"Significant upgrade"

Only Apple can manage to spin "Updating 10 year old technology to existing standards" a significant upgrade. Anyone else would just call it, a natural update.

Apple did say they'd use lightning for a least a decade when they announced it.

 

[Wags]

apple better not make it usb 2.0 speeds . Seriously especially now that they have more room by removing sim card and inserting trash plastic spacer. I actually need high speeds I use sony cameras for photography and when i don’t have my ipad to backup to lightroom i have my cf express reader on me with sadly a usbc to lightning cable to back up my photos to lightroom on my iphone 13 pro max . Slow process shooting uncompressed raw 70-100mb each photo. Apple literally is hindering their phones but yet want people to record in prores

Who knows with Apple and their bread crumbs. They release new tech/updates based on how long they can extend the product life without.

 

[KOTN91]

Who even use the USB-C for something than charging? Does it really matter...

This. Pre iCloud, I could understand. But it’s not 2009 any longer and the vast majority of people do not use a cable to sync an iPhone to a computer

 

[Virgilisleading]

This seems highly unlikely. That would be a feature for such an extremely small use case. Most people only use the connector cord to charge. I was even talking to someone that uses the new iPhone camera professionally and they just send everything wirelessly. I don't think I've heard of someone using a cable to transfer data from an iPhone. This seems like a waste of money for a feature that will be used by almost no one. Plus, wouldn't it increase security concerns? A portless iPhone is more secure.

 

[DeftwillP]

I really hope Apple doesn’t tout this as the must have feature for the 15 and leaves everything else the same as the 14. That’s probably what will happen though…

We think you're gonna love it.

So a spec bump type upgrade?

 

[miric]

iPhone 15 Pro cannot get 20 Gbps support because it is USB 3.2 Gen2x2 but all latest Macs don't support it, just 10 Gbps or TB 3/4/USB4. USB4 is not back-compatible with Gen2x2.

 

[Eldaerenth Faexidor]

Let’s cut the crap and have a portless iphone shall we?!

 

[brofkand]

iPhone 15 and 15 Plus will remain limited to USB 2.0 speeds.

That is such an Apple thing to do. Moving forward, Why not just focus on the Pro models only swiftly?

Considering the 14 and 14 Plus are basically just a rewarmed 13 but with the SIM tray filled in with a plastic spacer, that is exactly what Apple is doing.

 

[citysnaps]

Don’t expect them to include a thunderbolt cable though.

I would hope not.

 

[SactoGuy18]

I wonder will Apple have readied a new I/O chip for Thunderbolt 3/USB Certified 10Gbps connectivity that will be reasonably power-efficient? This isn't an iPad Pro or MacBook Air/Pro, where the battery is big enough to support current Thunderbolt 3 connectivity.

 

[NT1440]

I really hope Apple doesn’t tout this as the must have feature for the 15 and leaves everything else the same as the 14. That’s probably what will happen though…

The connector for charging is not going to be THE feature if these phones. It will be mentioned to **** everyone up, but it isn’t going to be THE selling point because nobody actually cares about this outside the tech press.

 

[ThisBougieLife]

Hmm what happened to the "portless or die" rumors? 🤔

 

[seek3r]

The connector for charging is not going to be THE feature if these phones. It will be mentioned to **** everyone up, but it isn’t going to be THE selling point because nobody actually cares about this outside the tech press.

I do, so do a lot of people. I can't wait until I can charge everything in my backpack with the same cables, it makes life a lot easier