Just as iPhone owners have finally upgraded all their old 30-pin accessories to Lightning compatible hardware, a report in the Wall Street Journal suggests that Apple is getting ready to drop the port ...

A patent application shows ideas for a moisture seal that could help anyone who charges a phone on the kitchen counter. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Sure we have wireless charging and cloud data back ups, but we still rely on cables for a lot of our power and data management. iOS users went through a connector transition several years ago, moving ...

Several blogs reported that Apple was developing a new "Ultra Accessory Connector" (UAC) that's smaller than USB-C and Lightning, but Apple says it isn't new at all. Executive Editor David Carnoy has ...

Anyone who owns an Apple iPhone 5 or later smartphone knows that the smartphone has for years used its own proprietary connector called Lightning. In recent years, rumors would always surface that ...

Introduced with the iPhone 5 nearly two and a half years ago, Apple’s Lightning connector has stymied the incredible homebrew electronics scene that was previously accustomed to the larger, older, ...