You cannot fail to amazed by people. Sometimes they just plugged it in and hope that the INPUT somehow "magically" shapeshifted itself to OUTPUT.
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Some USB-C Power Banks Fail to Work With iPhone 15
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I can’t get my TB3/USB4 external SSD’s to work with my 15 Pro Max either. Apparently they need more than 4.5W to work properly…
I’ll probably end up getting two Samsung T7’s which I was planning on getting anyways for Time Machine backups while traveling
I’ll probably end up getting two Samsung T7’s which I was planning on getting anyways for Time Machine backups while traveling
Oh yes. This must be EU’s fault for sure. 🙄
This works for other non-Apple devices. But maybe if Apple did their homework…
Maybe that’s the industry’s fault and not EU’s?
Ok… this is an easy fix. This is just like water flowing and communicating vessels. If you want charged electrons to flow from powerbank to the phone, you need to hold the powerbank higher than the phone and vice versa 😂😂😂
That proves nothing. I suggest you take a picture of the iphone AND the charger in the same picture showing the charge symbol on the iphone.
No it’s responsible for regulating out of ignorance.
God no. When I want to charge I don’t want any annoying menu. Plugs in & charge. That’s the way it should be.
So what you’re saying is that all other devices that are being charged using the USB-C standard have these problems and only apples lightning port can ensure seamless charging?
Why does the phone need to ask? The device I connect it to needs to know what it wants to do. So, the port should be labeled "out" for output and "in" for input. And if you want a switch to deterime? Then place that switch on the powerbank. I don't want to have to answer what to do on my iPhone each time I connect it to something. It is something I absolutely hate about Android trash.
I would hate a switch on the powerbank as well. Plug it in to charge it and you forget that switch and it’s not charged.
One way out could be that the devices (powerbank, AirPod case, phone etc) reports their maximum battery capacity in the communication between them. A wall plug would just report infinitely high. Charging directions should always go from highest capacity to lowest.
Edit: and if it’s to devices with identical capacity (like two phones) charge would go from highest charged to lowest. It’s not that difficult
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So you have on both sides one USB-C port which is an in AND output port. How should they know in which direction the current should flow? Percentage of battery capacity? But maybe you want to take a charge from your power bank even it’s already at 20%. I think you need such a switch.
Like I wrote the port should be clearly labelled, or there should be a switch on the powerbank. This can be a "firmware" switch, so that if it detects an iPhone (USB-C has an identification pin, so that isn't that hard to do) it should act as a host port. (which can be done with the CC1/CC2 pins of the port)
One iPhone can charge another. Somehow they managed to do it w/o a switch. Don’t know how the communication between 2 usbc ports work.
Maybe there will be power banks by Apple with titanium case? No switch needed therefore?
Since I have a car from 2014, it's only got USB ports. I used a USB to USB-C adapter with the USB-C cable that came with my 15 Pro and it wouldn't charge. I had to buy an actual USB to USB-C charging cable. My Anker portable charger works though, no idea what model it is.
This is an easy and cheap jab. And inaccurate too. You forget that governments also rebuild societies, create infrastructure, etc. including the Internet.
I’m not saying that governments are perfect. I am saying that people lose sight of the positives that governments create.
That’s a solution but very un-Apple in style. There must be a better and more elegant method.
Maybe it’s the EU’s fault for mandating a “standard” that is absolutely NOT standard ITSELF! Ever think about that?
Yeah sure. Much better to have a lot of random none-standards then. Now that there’s actually a standard plug, maybe the industry can see a point in aligning the rest of the whole USB-C technology
And yet the majority of the smartphone market (Android) has been using USB-C for quite a while and seems fine with it.
I agree that there could be better labeling of cables so one knows what a cable is capable of, but having a universal connector is a good thing. MacBook's have MagSafe and USB-C and I don't hear many complaints from people using USB-C to charge. I'm guessing the problem with the iPhone 15 is the implementation of the port, not the port itself.