USB-C iPhones May Save High-Speed Data Transfer For Pro Models - CNET

USB-C iPhones are finally coming, but they whitethorn not each beryllium created equal. A caller rumor states that the lower-end iPhones volition get a little precocious benignant of USB modular with slower information transportation than the Pro models.

While Apple executives said earlier this period that USB-C iPhones would travel astatine slightest by 2024 to comply with European regulations, they could get successful adjacent year's iPhone 15 series, noted Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted. He predicts that among the 2023 models, the high-end iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max volition person ports supporting "at slightest USB 3.2 oregon Thunderbolt 3," which are susceptible of up to 20 Gbps transportation speeds. 

Kuo expects the lower-end iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus volition enactment slower USB 2.0 speeds of 480 Mbps -- which was the aforesaid transportation complaint arsenic the Lightning ports successful anterior iPhones.

USB 3.2 is the astir precocious information transportation modular connected phones, with USB 4 lone appearing connected Macs and desktop computers frankincense far. Many starring Android phones usage USB 3.2, and immoderate of the calls for Apple to modulation iPhones to USB-C is to get those faster transportation speeds implicit cables. Now that the iPhone 14 Pro and Max models tin sprout successful 48MP ProRAW format, representation files person exploded successful size, and those high-resolution pics could transportation a batch quicker implicit USB 3.2.