Apple kills lightning cable: Each product on the Apple occasion makes use of USB-C

In case you’re upgrading your Apple units this fall, you may lastly ditch these previous Lightning cables.

To nobody’s shock, each new system unveiled at Apple’s occasion on Monday fees by way of USB-C reasonably than Lightning. These embody the next:

This is no surprise both. Apple switched to USB-C on all 4 new iPhone fashions final 12 months. The Apple Watch additionally has a technicality, because the system fees wirelessly by way of a USB-C dongle. The one information right here is that the brand new AirPods 4 cost by way of USB-C, as do the relaunched (however in any other case unchanged) AirPods Max. Simply final summer time, Apple launched new AirPods Professional earbuds that charged by way of Lightning, so it is good to see Apple slowly fixing this.

Apple solely switched to USB-C due to EU rules, so the corporate might not deserve a lot reward for that, nevertheless it does finish one of the annoying tech sagas of our time. For years, folks needed to maintain Lightning cables to cost units from a sure firm, whereas nearly each different firm on the planet switched to USB-C years in the past.

Now you may cost nearly any of your units with only one cable. Relaxation in peace, Lightning, we cannot miss you.