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 ...

reversible 8-pin connector called the Lightning plug. It served the Apple ecosystem well, with a flexible array of power and data transportation options. For Apple fans, it became the One ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After more than a decade of use, Apple’s new iPhone 15 will retire the company’s proprietary Lightning connector in favor of the USB-C port. The long-rumored change comes ahead of a December ...

Both of them destroyed a phone each, jamming a charging plug into the phone the wrong way until the port was destroyed. Lightning is reversible. You can plug it in any way you like, there is no ...