You don't need a Thunderbolt 4 cable for a phone. That's a cable for connecting your laptop to your monitor. By contrast, HDMI cables have gotten so crappy no

You don't need a Thunderbolt 4 cable for a phone. That's a cable for connecting your laptop to your monitor. By contrast, HDMI cables have gotten so crappy nowadays that I have to pay about half of that to know that I'm not going to have a problem. However, I don't skimp on USB-C stuff anymore. I buy the nice expensive GaN chargers, and I buy nice cables. And I don't have problems.