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USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked images - Macworld (www.macworld.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’ve known that the iPhone is switching to USB-C for a while now, but there was always a possibility that Apple would stick with Lightning for one more year. Based on the latest leaked images, however, Apple is all-in on USB-C for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, with USB-C parts for the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, and iPhone 15 Pro Max all shown in a leaked image by X user fix Apple.

With the switch to USB-C, nearly all of Apple’s devices will have adopted the new standard, with only AirPods, Mac accessories, and the iPhone SE remaining aside from older iPhones and the 9th-gen iPad.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hm. For some reason, I felt like Apple was going to be petty enough to only make phones with USB-C ports exclusively for EU territories and leave the rest of the world with proprietary ports. Good for them for not doing that I guess.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's simply cheaper for them not to have two different devices.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They kinda already do different physical models for different regions. NA has no SIM card slot, China requires 2, rest of the world gets 1.

With that being said, charging ports might be a different beast.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's easy though because they just swap out a daughter board but with apples design the charge port is soldered directly onto the main board so they have to change that and it's probably easy to not do that.

Very few phones actually have daughter boards for the charging port. Pretty much the only ones that are phones aimed at repairability.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If that were the cheaper thing to do I have no doubt they would've done it. Personally, I figured they were more likely go portless/wireless charging before being forced to USB-C but I guess that's not entirely feasible yet.