If you ’ve just bought one of Apple ’s new iPhone 15 example with its young USB - C port wine , you might of a sudden find yourself with a draftsman full of apparently useless Lightning cables . I reckon them up and my family of three have pile up twelve Lightning line , and there ’s probably a few more out of sight away .
Fear not for more tech landfill , you may still apply these Lightning cables to charge an iPhone 15 – if you add a mere arranger .
Apple claim that the only direction to do this is by using its own USB - C to Lightning Adapter .
However , theApple USB - ampere-second to Lightning Adaptercosts $ 29/£29 — nearly twice the Leontyne Price of its own 60W 1 one thousand USB - C to USB - nose candy Charge Cable ( $ 19 ) . Why purchase an adapter when you could buy two new charge cable for the same toll ?
And , of course , you may buy eminent - calibre USB - C cables much cheap if you divert from the Apple Store . See Macworld ’s recommendedbest USB - C boot cables . Do n’t put out with the sometime Lightning cable with USB - A at the other end , as only USB - C ( to Lightning or USB - C ) stomach iPhone fast charging .
But there are cheap third - political party adapters that crop just as well as the Apple arranger .
Quite apart from the fact that the Apple adapter is in reality a Lightning to USB - snow arranger and not the other way round as it has labeled it , there are much cheaper alternatives that turn a Lightning overseas telegram into a USB - C charging cablegram .
What you ask is aLightning distaff to USB - C Male Adapter . Slip the Lightning end of your old pre - iPhone 15 bill cable into this type of adapter and you could use it to charge an iPhone 15 or another grim - boot USB - C gadget .
We tested theArktek Lightning to USB - C Adapter , available in a handy two - pack in either Silver or Gray for $ 10.99 or £ 11.99 , as well as this pack ofone Lightning to USB - C and one USB - blow to Lightning Adapter ( U.K. only ; £ 8.99)in case you fancy going the other way , too .
There are others also useable , such as theFQSH for Lightning Female to USB - C Male Adapter-2 Pack($10 ) that is available in multiple colors ( U.S. only ) .
That ’s all you want to transform your Lightning cable television into a USB - C charging cable .
Do note , however , that you should use your modified Lightning cable length to lodge your laptop , and taste to bind to a 20W USB - C battery charger if potential . Each Lightning USB - ampere-second adapter has its own list of unsupported devices — such as the Apple Pencil — so check these when you purchase . In testing , we draw our Lightning cable system plus USB - C adapter combo to charge just about anything but the manufacturing business gimmick prohibition is about likely overheating and we did notice the adapter get raging when seek to charge up something large than an iPhone .
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