Apple’s iPhone 15 lineup offers completely standard USB-C ports that work with all existing USB 3 and USB-PD (Power Delivery) compliant cables, chargers, and accessories, the same as all of Apple’s other devices with USB-C ports.
Andrew Cunningham for Ars Technica:
With the USB-C transition essentially taken for granted, the rumor mill focused on Apple’s implementation of USB-C, namely that the company would limit data and charging speeds for any accessories not certified through its Made for iPhone (MFI) program. Without certified cables, the rumors said, other USB-C accessories would be limited to basic functionality, like 480Mbps USB 2.0 transfer speeds and slower charging speeds.
But this USB-C rumor was always difficult to believe, partly because Apple has been shipping fully standards-compliant USB-C ports in its Macs and iPads for years now. If anything, I’ve found Apple’s USB-C ports to be less temperamental than those that come in some PCs—I’ve used HP and Lenovo PCs that either complain about slow charging or reduce performance if you use third-party chargers with them, but my MacBooks have always happily connected to whatever charger I wanted to use them with.
We can confirm that these early reports were incorrect and that iPhones have completely standard USB-C ports that work just fine with all existing USB 3 and USB-PD (Power Delivery) compliant cables, chargers, and accessories, just like Apple’s other devices.
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There is one other very bad thing that if you don’t use MFI cables and chargers. They put a strain on the battery that leads to loosing battery capacity and efficiency. In one year my grandson went from 100% to 79% because he used those cables and chargers. You don’t need to buy Apple, you can buy from the cheaper manufacturers. As long as it says MFI or it has a rectangular box and in it says: “Made for” and below it continues “iPOD iPHONE iPAD. He replaced the things used the new ones an after two weeks and it went up to 85%. But the damage is done so it will never return to 100%
What is the difference between a ‘standard USBC port’ and a ‘completley standard USBC posrt’?
apologies for my mashed up spelling…