Apple’s new iPhones will all have a USB-C port. Goodbye Lightning. But with so many different USB-C cables around, which one is right for you? WSJ’s Dalvin Brown unpacks the switch and which ...

Can we talk about the cables in our lives? I’ll start: I have a circa-2020 iPhone, which features a Lightning ... to USB-C.

Lightning is one end of the cable, with USB Type A at the other. Introduced in 2012 with the iPhone 5 and new iPods, Lightning superseded the 30-pin dock connector that dates back to 2001.

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