New Images Leak of iPhone 12 Braided USB-C to Lightning Cable

[grantew1]

Having to travel with a different charging cable for each device is such a mess. One for the iPad Pro. One for the iPhone. One for the watch.

I’m guessing the AWS6 doesn’t even come with a USB-C cable?

Doubtful as water can get in there and mess up stuff.

 

[pointbrink]

USB-C or some type of smart connector like the iPad, I don't see how they'd be able to go full wireless when usb connectivity is still needed for a variety of reasons (carplay and smart card readers, just 2 quick examples)

 

[vgmrm]

why usb-c just for 1 year...since from 2021 iphone goes port-less

Because a port-less machine are a bad idea (for me), as well as mouse, keyboard exclusive non-cable models with hateful batteries.

 

[compwiz1202]

That would make 98% of CarPlay enabled cars redundant. Not sure if it’s even an option in most cars.

Plus wireless charging is still crap for the only choice. Apple can't even get past 7.5W turtle mode. And it still needs more range and public availability. Around here beyond an airport or large mall, you can't even find wired charging unless the place has plugs and you BYOA&C

 

[Suckfest 9001]

Just buy Anker or Amazon Basics honestly. I'm not spending 39.99 or whatever on this

 

[RevTEG]

I can hold out until iPhone ditches lighting... maybe... 🤪

 

[Orizaba]

If they didn't want to switch to USB-C all at once, maybe make it exclusive to the Pro models to give people a choice?

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Having to travel with a different charging cable for each device is such a mess. One for the iPad Pro. One for the iPhone. One for the watch.

I’m guessing the AWS6 doesn’t even come with a USB-C cable?

And this is why AirPower was such a good idea

 

[d5aqoëp]

need to Milk Milk Milk that lightning connector like no tomorrow.

 

[Momof2.1107]

Okay, so here's what I don't understand about Apple not providing a power brick this year:

The rationale is that most people already have them so it would just create more waste... Okay, that makes sense. But the cable they're packing this year is lighting to USB-C... Don't the vast majority of iPhone and iPad owners probably have USB-A charging bricks that came with previous devices? Only people with iPad Pros and certain model Macbooks will have a USB-C charger.

I'm hoping that the iPad Air 4 will be available before the iPhone 12, and I intend to get both, but if the Air doesn't come first, I don't own a single USB-C charging brick.

You hit that one on the nose. I have all USB-A power adapters and will have to buy a USB-C power adapter for the 12 Pro Max this year. Luckily I added an extra $100 to my savings just for this and a possible $50 price hike.

 

[howywood]

I really really really wish they'd just ****ing stick to one type of cable like every other company on the planet. USB-C for the win.

 

[Reason077]

At any given time 3 out of the 4 ports have so much crud in them that cables won't plug all the way in. Keeping them clean proves to be a full time job in a way lightening ports never seem to need. Not sure why... I'd think a port is a port. But the USB C shape has just given me way more problems with that than any other port has.

Hmm, I can honestly say I've never had any issue at all with crud in USB-C ports. Neither on my MacBook Pro or on my other USB-C devices (headphones, hard drives, portable 5G Wifi router). And my MacBook gets exposed to plenty of dirt - I'm forever cleaning crud off of the keyboard and screen!

I have occasionally had to clean pocket fluff out of my iPhone's Lightning port. And I can see that this is marginally easier to do with Lightning. But we're talking a once-a-year or so maintenance procedure.

 

[macsound1]

Absolute f idiocy which makes me want to NOT buy an iPhone again.

Apple put a god damn USB-C in it. Why this joke of a cable that I now have to carry around with me all the time so I can charge my phone, when my iPads and Macbooks all have USB-C DIRECT charging without stupid dongles. Such a waste.

I know. It would be so much more useful if iPads still had lightning and Macs still had magsafe.

 

[Gasu E.]

IKEA has had better braided lightning cables for the price of two sandwiches for some time now.

The 10 Most Expensive Sandwiches in the World

Sandwiches are not a particularly innovative food items. The concept of using either bread or something similar to bread to either lie under, lie both

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[the-msa]

yeah, thats not going to make lightning look any better

 

[BeefCake 15]

I'm one of those people, please don't feel bad for me. They can be replaced with USB-C ones when the time is right. The thing with technology is that its always moving, if you never jump on you will be forever waiting for just the right time but there will never be just the right time.

That's a great mindset!

 

[RemE]

Another grubby white accessory I won't be getting, they wear badly and just look gross way too soon.

 

[HiRez]

Every #*&% outlet in my house is full because I need both USB-C and Lightning everywhere, I can't believe they're still hanging onto Lightning when they're the ones who forced everyone into USB-C in the first place by making it the only port on Macs. Which I'm fine with as long as everything else follows, but now the iPhone, which is supposed to be the cutting edge of Apple technology is holding everything else back, it's weird. At one time, Macs begat #donglelife, now that hashtag only applies to iPhones.

Putting the adapter in the box great, but it's like giving out Fahrenheit thermometers in Europe with the conversion formula in the box instead of just making Celsius thermometers.

 

[groove-agent]

Damn, I was hoping the iPhone 12s would be USBC. I guess I'm going to have to carry around an extra cable still ... oh wait, I left it at home, looks like I'm screwed.

 

[CarlJ]

I’m thinking of a word. It begins with a T

Is it Transformer?

Can I buy a vowel?

 

[CarlJ]

But the cable they're packing this year is lighting to USB-C...

I just have missed Apple announcing this. As far as I know, all we have right now is unsubstantiated rumors.

Whether it's a USB-A charger or USB-C charger, I'm happy to see them not include it with the phone. Have a checkbox when you're ordering an iPhone, "[] Do you need to add an AC adapter, for $X?". Maybe they play nice this year, and make it especially low-priced when purchased on the same order as a new iPhone. Either way, it works towards there be less AC adapters out there in the world being thrown into drawers, or worse, the trash.

 

[toke lahti]

Just another design failure: cable is not strengthened at the connectors end.

 

[FHoff]

Just another design failure: cable is not strengthened at the connectors end.

Yes cause we all know you get to be a 2T dollar company by creating design failures.

 

[joelhinch]

So far this remains a theory, as there are quite a few technical & sentimental challenges Apple would need to overcome. Imagine the number of accessories people have accumulated + CarPlay still requiring iPhone to be plugged in + an old good backup on a computer, etc.

They'll be a wireless 'AirPower for Car' matt. It will have a U1 chip that automatically connects your phone and the AirPower together, it will use your phones WiFi/Bluetooth for data transmission, Qi for charging. The AirPower matt will connect to your car via USB. This isn't a huge issue.

 

[germinator]

I vowed in 2019 to never buy an iPhone unless it comes with USB-C.
I'm holding out. Apple is losing my business so far.