Skip the Apple Lightning cable and go with a Nomad Lightning cable instead. You may pay a little bit more, but when that one cable lasts for years of reliable service, it’s well worth it.

In 2012, Apple switched to the lightning cable after getting rid of the 30-pin iPhone charger. But the company has slowly been phasing the lightning cable out of its iPad designs.

Apple just made a lot of people’s Lightning cables and accessories suddenly redundant by introducing the new iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, and 15 Pro Max. Four phones, not a Lightning port in ...

For more than a decade, Apple has been using the Lightning port to charge and transfer data to its iPhone line — but all that changes with the upcoming iPhone 15.Goodbye Lightning, hello USB-C.

I read that one of the big changes with Apple’s new iPhone 15 is that it has switched from a lightning connector to a USB connector. Why would Apple force us all to get new cables?

With Apple’s shift to USB-C ports on the iPhone 15 line comes a new $29 Lighting to USB-C adapter — but these cables are a better investment for anyone upgrading.

On Apple’s official Lightning cable, there are two chips: One authenticates that the cable is made by Apple, while the other acts as a fuse that isolates damage to the charger.

The OMG Cables will be sold at Hak5, for around $100.The site describes the product as “a highly covert malicious USB cable—as soon as the cable is plugged in, it can be controlled through the ...

Apple, Google, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Sony all voluntarily agreed in 2018 to standardize on some form of USB-C charging by 2021, but allowed for things like Lightning to USB-C cables ...

Incidentally, our round up of Best Lightning cables for iPhone or iPad is full of braided cables. Apple left the plug out of the iPhone 12 box and is likely to do the same with the iPhone 13.

Before the Lightning cable’s debut in 2012, I’d never experienced such a feeling. Apple’s 30-pin connector was proprietary and a little finicky. In comparison, mini and micro USB were more ...