Bluetooth doesn’t charge a phone. He needs the USB because he doesn’t have wireless charging, not because he doesn’t have wireless comms.
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'iPhone 17 Air' is Step Towards Slimmer iPhones Without USB-C Ports
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Too soon. Still far too many situations where I need to charge when I don’t have wireless charging options at hand. This would be a deal breaker for me and would prevent me from upgrading.
100%.
And again, even the wired problem is solvable, it just requires a tiny bit of foresight.
Cool, can't wait for Apple to make a screen-less iPhone!
Brilliant! Display technology is nearly 100 years old. Way older than floppy drives and CDs. Get rid of it! In fact, get rid of the phone entirely and just sell the box with an apple sticker! Imma gonna take Tim Apples job!
Sure, SOME newer cars do, not all and plenty that are still relatively new do not. I own a 2018 and 2019 vehicle, neither have wireless charging but support wired Apple car play which i use everyday. I sure as hell am not going to trade up vehicles just to make sure it works with a phone lol
I’m surprised apple are pushing wireless charging considering how environmentally friendly they claim to be. It’s such an inefficient form of charging wasting energy, plus heats batteries and lessens their capacity quicker etc etc.
Not only that but it could be poor for transferring files without usb.
Not only that but it could be poor for transferring files without usb.
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How do you charge your current iPhone in car? Bet you use a usb one end of cable with the other end lightening. Change the lightening end for wireless. The usb end could be plugged into the lighter or port. All done.
This thing has wires too, silly rabbit. 🤪
Jokes aside, over-the-air charging certainly is interesting. Wonder how long before this is possible in, say, an airplane - where all 150 passengers can charge their devices on their flight? Longer for us plebes, as first class will have it first (smaller sample audience, more important humans, etc.).
You'd just need an adaptor. Or replace the audio head.
I mean sure, use it as an excuse to get a new car, but it's not required.
If you can replace the head unit….thats not a given, even on models from a couple of years ago.You'd just need an adaptor. Or replace the audio head.
I mean sure, use it as an excuse to get a new car, but it's not required.
With older iPhones I could just use a toothpick to clean out the charging port. With USB-C the port keeps filling with lint and pushing the charging cable out. It’s hard to find something small enough to clean it, and it’s slower to clean because i need to be more delicate with that little tab in there. I wish they could have used the superior Lightning connector for USB-C.
I feel like going portless is a ploy to kill off local backups to force everyone to use iCloud for backups
Sorry you have a country that does not recognize the importance of security systems. Ours, use iCloud, use local drive on the Mac over fast WiFi, use AirDrop, a few of the options that do not need a port. Add a NAS that list.
If I can’t use a wired headset, it’s an automatic no. Some of us absolutely must have the best audio, and that is a wired headset. Bluetooth headsets still suck in 2025.
On that note, 0.7mm pencil lead, or even 0.5mm provided you are very careful, is decently capable. The durability and ease of cleaning was definitely the best thing about lightning though. If Apple had allowed it to be a USB standard that replaced Micro-USB across the board, and then supported USB3 speeds with it the we would've probably been better off. The USB-C design could just be Thunderbolt and be exclusive to computers. There could be Lightning and Thunder and it would be far simpler and easier given the places the ports are used.
Incidentally, I’ve never needed to clean a USB-C port, but I have had to clean Lightning ports.
But not ADP?
The security issue to date is that ADP is disabled. But how many people actually complaining about the security issue were using ADP? "An option that I already chose not to use is currently not available" is the situation for most people isn't it? Or am I wrong?
I haven't heard of anyone here who had ADP enabled already. I'm sure that there ARE people here from the UK, or internationally that do have it enabled, but it seems to be a very small number.
Don't get me wrong, it's something that I'd like to have the option of enabling, and I do have that option, but I still haven't done it.
Have you? Just asking since you didn't mention it.
yea my head unit is integrated into a lot of other things, like my heated seats, wheel, folding head rests etc.