Apple is preparing to swap the proprietary lightning port on its iPhones next year for the nearly universally embraced USB-C claims agency analyst. In a pair of tweets, Kuo said Apple was going to make the change in 2023 basing this claim on an indeterminate survey presumably of components to get a lot of his information for predictions about future Apple products. Kuo said that adopting USB-C could improve iPhone’s transfer and charging speed in hardware designs but the final spec details still depend on IOS support. Kuo forecast is hard without precedence rumors and speculations about Apple adopting USB-C for the iPhone have swirled for years. The smartphone industry at large has embraced the reversible USB-C standard and apple itself has got partly on board adding USB-C to its most recent iPads and using USB-C well-matched thunderbolt ports on many macs. Pressure to switch has built from policymakers too with the EU still considering a proposal that would make USB-C ports compulsory on smartphones and other electronics which the intention of reducing e-waste by standardizing chargers and data cables. And yet Apple has always seemed particularly resistant to the idea. It’s been suggested that the agency would rather make its iPhone’s port less relying on wireless charging and data transfer than mar its devices with the USB-C. And Kuo himself predicted just last year that isn’t considering USB-C ports.
Apple will drop iPhone lightning port in favor of USB-C in 2023 claims analyst
