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Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report (www.extremetech.com)
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Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report::undefined

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[–] 23 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Unless it's limited by hardware this will be a main cause for jailbreaking your iPhone.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    What makes you say that? 90% of the users don't even connect their iPhone to a pc anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This is true. I'm a bit biased as that is what I would do. I'd say most users will not even notice. I think most of us here on lemmy are tech heads though and we would be the ones who do connect our phones to PC.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I consider myself more techy than the average person. I’m a developer, I used to use Linux, and I used to root my Android phones.

    I stopped connecting my phones to my computers long ago. Hardly ever had a reason to do so once I stopped rooting, unless I was using the phone as a makeshift flash drive.

    Transferring to a new phone, stuff transfers over wirelessly or backups download. I’ve got everything in the cloud these days. No real need to connect to a computer.

    That said, I do think it’s frustrating if this is a limitation of the port rather than one of the cable.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If I understand how USB Super Speed (ie USB 3.0+) works correctly, it is trivial to limit a USB C port to USB 2.0 modes, as it uses extra connections, which, I think, means you can just not connect them and treat the port like its a USB 1.x/2.x port. Not 100% sure tho

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    You're entirelly correct - if only the D+ and D-data lines (plus VCC and GND) are connected (and USB-C is meant to work no matter which way you plug it so there are one of each on each side) then it will just behave as USB 2.0

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