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Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds -- with a vanilla iPhone 16, you're going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?

With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds

1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs

with a vanilla iPhone 16, you're going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs

Wow what a great article, well done.

Thank God I abandoned Apple a long time ago

People discuss this as if they connected their phones to their computers more than once in the past 5 years.

Pro models have USB 3 or 4 Non pro iOS devices have USB2

Not confusing… but I guess this is enough for an article

And people still buy Apple products?

Of course they do. They blame the EU for forcing Apple to go with Usb c, because Apple had no time to adapt to it

iPhones and iPads may be trash but macOS is still certified UNIX and the Apple silicon M1-M4 are honestly game changers in PC CPU design.

I would never buy an iPhone or an iPad.

I would definitely, on the other hand, pay some good money for a high end mac. I just simply don't have that kind of money to throw around. But if I did, I would.

Take any usb-c charger, plug it in and it will charge. We just covered 90% of use cases.

Beyond that:

old phone: slow data transfer.

new phone: faster data transfer but still slower then computer.

So very confusing.