The M1, M2 iPads have them and they are still slow when connected to a Mac or PCMaybe future iPhones come with thunderbolt connection.
The M1, M2 iPads have them and they are still slow when connected to a Mac or PCMaybe future iPhones come with thunderbolt connection.
The M1, M2 iPads have them and they are still slow when connected to a Mac or PC
Connected to Mac or PC? Using a generic cable from Amazon I get 2Gb/s connected to Windows 11 PC (15 Pro Max)I have a Monoprice Thunderbolt/USB4 cable.
I will try my Belkin Thunderbolt 3 cable later. (I have to dig it out.) I have also ordered an Intel- and USB-IF-certified TB/USB4 cable.
- With an NVMe drive I get 40 Gb/s.
- With my M1 iPad Pro I get 10 Gb/s.
- With my iPhone 15 Pro Max I get only 480 Mb/s.
MacConnected to Mac or PC? Using a generic cable from Amazon I get 2Gb/s connected to Windows 11 PC (15 Pro Max)
Bash:# Useful for improving Time Machine backup prep. times, Mac App Store install speeds, etc. sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0 # To restore defaults sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=1
Anyone tried this?
Does this help?
This is probably the only real disappointment about the 15 Pro Max. I was having visions of super-fast backups, but in reality, although it might technically be faster (it's hard to tell with this kind of thing), it sure doesn't feel that way... backups took a long time before, and they take a long time now.I recently helped someone do a backup. They last backed up in October. It took well over an hour for the new data to transfer over. YIKES Apple
Ok, sudo does work in MacOS, but me thinks you are talking to the wrong crowd… 🤣
Did anyone mention yet that only USB 3.1 gen 2 10Gbs cables and NOT TB3 will give you a 10Gbs transfer speed? At least, according to Apple 🤷🏻♂️I have a Monoprice Thunderbolt/USB4 cable.
I will try my Belkin Thunderbolt 3 cable later. (I have to dig it out.) I have also ordered an Intel- and USB-IF-certified TB/USB4 cable.
- With an NVMe drive I get 40 Gb/s.
- With my M1 iPad Pro I get 10 Gb/s.
- With my iPhone 15 Pro Max I get only 480 Mb/s.
I've accepted that transfer speeds between my M1 MBP and iPhone are slow. For video editing it's actually been better for me to:Wow what a disappointment. Ive just finished reading through this entire thread hoping to find some tidbit of information that would solve this issue but to no avail. Such a shame that even so many months after the phone's release (and years after the ipad's release) there is no solution to this seemingly trivial issue. Why does marketing say one thing and reality do another? Why does an SSD directly attached to the phone allow for the full 10Gbps but not when connecting to a MacBook Pro M1 Pro or similarly capable computer?
My test setup and results:
15 Pro, 16" M1 Pro, TB3 cable correctly showing up as 10Gbps in sysinfo.
Transfer speeds to a T9 SSD both from laptop and from phone are as expected i.e. around 1GBps.
Transfer speeds between laptop and phone are around 50MBps according to activity monitor as well as manually timing.
There shouldn't be a need to find the right cable if sysinfo reports it as 10Gbps and based on other people's posts in this thread, there are no magical cables that work so i only tested the two that I have with identical results.
This is a big shame for anyone like me who often likes to transfer large files to my phone and generally being able to treat is like a handy always-on-me SSD.
There is a reddit thread where one user has mentioned that on their intel based iMac they see fast speeds but doesnt specify what exactly those speeds are. Maybe its the M series that is the common issue.
Has anyone tried contacting support to ask about this and if its something they are aware of by design or otherwise?
P.S: Reading user purplerainpurplerain's responses makes me think he must be rage-baiting or wilfully ignorant of everyones' points because wow, he really doesn't seem to understand the issue XD.
With my iPhone 15 Pro Max I get 10 Gb/s with a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 cable (F2CD081BT1M-BLK) and a Monoprice USB 4 cable (44117). Mac is MBP M3 Max.I am restoring from backup to a 16 pro right now, several hours in. Seems that USB 3 speeds are still not attainable with the proper cable. Another year, another device, still the same false advertising and slow USB 2.0 speeds.
Worse yet, there is no progesss bar or time remaining indicator! Apple Devices is absolutely useless, never did I think I would be pining for the days of iTunes.
iPhone:
Product ID: 0x12a8
Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.)
Version: 16.02
Serial Number: 00008130001C11DC2EA0001C
Speed: Up to 10 Gb/s
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Location ID: 0x02200000 / 1
Current Available (mA): 900
Current Required (mA): 896
Extra Operating Current (mA): 1500
Sleep current (mA): 2400
Somewhere in the last 8 pages someone detailed how to check the link speed in windows and it came up as a 10 GB/S device, however iTunes (or now Apple Devices) never actually reads or writes data at anything even close to such a speed. It is curiously still limited to a USB 2.0 maximum of 480MbpsWith my iPhone 15 Pro Max I get 10 Gb/s with a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 cable (F2CD081BT1M-BLK) and a Monoprice USB 4 cable (44117). Mac is MBP M3 Max.
In Windows 11 I can get it to report up to 10GB/s, too.... but it absolutely does not transfer anywhere close to that speed. Max I've seen is more like 2Gb/sWith my iPhone 15 Pro Max I get 10 Gb/s with a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 cable (F2CD081BT1M-BLK) and a Monoprice USB 4 cable (44117). Mac is MBP M3 Max.
Just tested again on my PC with a USBC-USBC cable, copying a 1GB video directly from iPhone 15 Pro Max to Windows 11 Desktop. Took 5.5 seconds, which is about 1.5Gb/s. So it can definitely go faster than USB 2.0 speeds, but not anything near 10Gb.Somewhere in the last 8 pages someone detailed how to check the link speed in windows and it came up as a 10 GB/S device, however iTunes (or now Apple Devices) never actually reads or writes data at anything even close to such a speed. It is curiously still limited to a USB 2.0 maximum of 480Mbps
True, and that would make sense that there is some overhead in that scenario. Just strange that (at least in my experience with the 15 pro and now 16 pro) not even a little faster than a regular USB 2.0 connection was achieved. The fact that it was the exact same as an (otherwise saturated) lightning cable indicates that something else might be at play here. Even 1.5Gb/s would be an improvement.Just tested again on my PC with a USBC-USBC cable, copying a 1GB video directly from iPhone 15 Pro Max to Windows 11 Desktop. Took 5.5 seconds, which is about 1.5Gb/s. So it can definitely go faster than USB 2.0 speeds, but not anything near 10Gb.
Running a backup probably isn't the best test of transfer speeds, because the phone is probably doing some additional compresssion/file sorting/computation and not just simply transferring a file from device to PC