Apple's iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro will reportedly have different USB-C ports - XDA Developers

Apple volition reportedly connection antithetic USB-C ports connected its iPhones for adjacent year, making the Pro model, a spot much of an charismatic purchase.

While we don't truly cognize what next year's iPhone volition look like, we bash cognize for a fact that it volition get with a USB-C port. Now, we're getting quality that Apple could connection 2 antithetic kinds of USB-C ports connected its iPhones, 1 that volition travel with the modular iPhone and iPhone Plus model, and different that volition beryllium utilized successful Pro variants.

According to expert Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple volition astir surely beryllium getting escaped of the Lightning connector connected its iPhone 15, yet shifting implicit to USB-C. What's absorbing is that Kuo reports that Apple volition usage 2 antithetic USB-C ports connected its iPhones for adjacent year. The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus volition reportedly person a modular USB-C port, with wired transportation speeds that volition beryllium connected par with the existent Lightning connector. The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max volition person substantially amended transportation speeds, with Kuo stating the phones "will enactment astatine slightest USB 3.2 oregon Thunderbolt 3."

This is rather a spot of news, considering that users person been complaining for rather immoderate clip with respect to the transportation speeds recovered connected the iPhone. Apple's Lightning connector primitively made its debut successful 2012, replacing the 30-pin dock connector that was made fashionable by Apple's iPod products. The Lightning connector was compact and champion of all, it could beryllium inserted into the charging larboard successful either direction. This was rather a large woody astatine the time, considering that different phones were utilizing microUSB, and USB-C wouldn't statesman showing up successful phones until 2015.

A decennary aft the motorboat of the Lightning connector, portion astir products had moved onto utilizing USB-C, Apple inactive managed to instrumentality with the Lightning connector, contempt its shortcomings. Whether it was forced to follow USB-C oregon it has done truthful connected its ain accord, we cognize the iPhone 15 with USB-C volition beryllium a large deal, and it volition beryllium coming successful 2023.

Source: Ming-Chi Kuo (Twitter)