My phone is an iPhone 10. My mom's crappy ex-boyfriend gave it to me after upgrading, and I've been using it for a few years at this point.

One of the very few nice things out of that relationship lol. Holy shit Scott is a horrible person.

The lightning connector is already a god awful electrical connector, I do not understand how some people look fondly back on it, I've had far less irritations with the old 30-pin connector. And I only used (or I guess "use", I have an iPhone 3GS knocking around) the cheap crap from dollar stores!

Anyway the female connector on my phone is severely worn out, and it's just recently developed the issue of mostly refusing to charge when plugging a cable in. FUN!

Fuck you lightning. Fuck you and your shitty PCB contacts that arc out and burn on the male connector. Fuck you for being a gapping massive hole for dirt to collect in. Fuck you're pissing hardware DRM, and fuck your proprietary design and overpriced cables!

I could get a new phone...... But Android has went to shit years ago and I don't really want another iPhone.

Idk, maybe the cheap nasty mediatek phones in stores are still really hackable. I have a few "Obama phones" in my collection and messing with the mediatek ones is always a fun time. Root access! On a pretty recent version of Android! Muck around in single player mobile phone games with "GameGuardian" to your hearts content!

I have replaced charging ports on phones before. I have a hot air and soldering station and it's not too difficult, but I have also damaged two old Android phones by accidentally nudging surrounding components. (I should get a proper PCB holder and preheater.)

I'd try giving it a shot on my iPhone 10..... Except I don't have any female lighting connectors to salvage. There's my iPhone 5C! But, well, I don't want to sacrifice it, and the connector likely won't fit.

Also I viciously hate taking iPhones apart.

I'm pretty sure I hung on to a wireless charger module I ripped out of something. If I had access to the rest of my PCB collection I'd grab it and rig it up.....

Edit: Weirdly my lighting accessories still work fine.

Also I forgot to mention this, but I have tried cleaning the port out. Multiple times. Haven't gone very firm as I'm afraid I'm going to bend pins.