Apple begins testing iPhones with Universal Serial Bus type USB-C port

Apple is planning to retain the Lightning connector for this year’s new models. If the organization continue with the change, it wouldn’t occur until 2023 at the primal.

A well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that it will follow USB-C on iPhones in 2023, and now Bloomberg reports the Cupertino-based tech giant has already started testing iPhones with the USB-C port.

Apple Inc. is testing upcoming iPhone models that switch to the present Lightning charging port with the more extensive USB-C connector, according to people with the insight of the situation, a move that could help the company accommodate with impending European arrangements.

Apple begins testing iPhones

If a better standard arises, the European union legislation behest that if a new standard come up, we can acclimate the rules. Apple says this shift could give advantage iPhone users with faster data transfers and faster charging options.

Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max

One of the main reasons for this shift from Lightning connector to USB-C could be the European Union’s push for USB- C armed devices, which shouldn’t be a problem for Android device makers since most of the Android-running smartphones or tablets launched in the last few years came with the USB-C port.

However, Apple is anxious that the European law decreeing just one type of connector for all devices on the market will damage European consumers by abating down the introduction of beneficial innovations in charging standards, including those associated to safety and energy ability.

Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max with Lightning port

The European union has dismissed the accusations of this move to USB-C impeding innovation, saying the “bid states that if a new standard come up that is better than USB-C, we can modify the rules.”

Regardless of whether or not the European law muzzles innovation, a shift from the Lightning port to USB-C would benefit iPhone users with better data transfers and faster charging.