Lightning was small and reliable The connector’s small size has kept everything Lightning-related small and portable, too. Back in 2012, when Apple debuted the Lightning port on the iPhone 5 ...

Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. The Lightning connector really only had two jobs: be tiny and be foolproof. Apple developed the new port for the iPhone 5, which at the ...

It Feels Like we have been saying goodbye to Apple’s Lightning cable for some time, and that farewell appears to be all the closer following the company’s September Glowtime event. With the ...

Let’s take it back to September 12, 2012, when Phil Schiller first introduced the world to the Lightning connector and the iPhone 5. “The iPhone from its start has used the iPod 30-pin ...

By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen, The Times’s personal tech columnist, was reporting on Apple when it introduced the Lightning connector in 2012. The iPhone 15 (technically, the 17th iteration of ...

The Apple Vision Pro’s battery cable can be removed using a SIM push pin, revealing an oversized lightning connector and port. The Vision Pro’s battery only delivers power, so it could have ...

Unveiled at the press conference announcing the iPhone 5 and 2012 iPod lineup, the proprietary Lightning connector replaces the 30-pin connector found on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod since 2003.

With the release of the iPhone 16e, that day has officially arrived. The Lightning connector was a revolutionary 8-pin, reversible port that replaced the bulky 30-pin dock connector found on iPods ...

Well, that was unexpected. Yesterday, when I tweeted a photo of the Apple Vision Pro’s hidden Lightning connector inside of its battery pack, I had no idea it would go viral. I didn’t think ...