> Ever had your iPhone’s Lightning port fail? It’s not particularly rare Really? In another life I worked at an apple store genius bar, and can't recall ever s

> Ever had your iPhone’s Lightning port fail? It’s not particularly rare Really? In another life I worked at an apple store genius bar, and can't recall ever seeing a failed lightning port (physical damage aside). You know what's extremely common though? Schmutz. The port picks up pocket lint, and then the connector packs it all down to the bottom of the port. Eventually your phone stops charging. Often the gunk is packed so tightly it's not obvious even looking with a flashlight that there's anything in there, or that the connector isn't sitting properly. Just dig it out with a pin and you're fine. Obviously I don't know what happened with your phone or etc. All I can say is in my experience (which is sadly extensive), if you had your phone replaced for a failed lightning port the real problem was almost always schmutz + incompetent tech support. Edit: Didn't notice jen729w's comment when I posted. So... seconded.