That s why we decided to test a couple of popular alternatives alongside an apple comes with purchase cable to see which held up the best.
Lightning charging cable problems.
And if available try a different charging cable.
Before you toss away your cable or bring your phone into apple for repair you should take a moment and try.
So no charging cables aren t going away any time soon.
Are you experiencing problems charging your iphone or ipad using your lightning cable.
To see if your lightning cable is what s causing the ipad charging problem try charging your ipad with a different cable.
Make sure your lightning cable isn t frayed kinked or even chewed through.
Oh the genius of j.
This cable features 90 degree bends at both the usb a and usb c connections to prevent twisting tangling and wire breakage.
Contrary to my belief as per which more the debris inside the port tighter should the connection with the cable upon plugging in become cleaning gave that rock solid port cable grip back.
Post which i checked for charging the lose port problem disappeared.
We get asked about this a lot.
Apple invented lightning for greed.
For best results make sure that your lightning cables are apple certified.
Cleverly it adds an unnecessary chip within the connector whose connections break quickly so they can extort money repeatedly.
If it is replace with a new cable and see if this solves your charging problems.
These certified cables work best with your apple products.
Your iphone or ipad has been working just fine but now you can t plug your lightning cable into it and get the phone to charge.
For folks looking to buy a charging cable that won t twist or tangle while they try to charge their devices and work at the same time there is the aukey lightning cable.
Any mfi certified lightning cable should support up to 12 w of charging power or up to 18 w if it s a usb c to lightning cable and usb 2 0 data transfer rates up to 480 mbps.