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Hah! I had to clean pocket lint out of my XS like a half dozen times in the two years I used it. I've known a few people with iPhones that have had this problem

Hah! I had to clean pocket lint out of my XS like a half dozen times in the two years I used it. I've known a few people with iPhones that have had this problem too where it stops charging and the culprit is lint. Apple even has a special tool just for this for purpose they give to Geniuses. Maybe it doesn't happen cable end but it sure happens pocket end. I've mostly had Android phones and haven't had to clean as many USB C ports as the XS. Lightning also has that problem where the 4th pin burns out and now you have a cable that charges one way. I've yet to have that happen on a USB C cable.

gnicholas 5y ago
That's a lot of lint! I've had iPhones from day 1 and only needed to clean out 4-5 times total. Easy to do with a toothpick or canned air!
derefr 5y ago
> Maybe it doesn't happen cable end but it sure happens pocket end. I've mostly had Android phones and haven't had to clean as many USB C ports as the XS. I mean, from an engineering/repair POV, these sorts of short-term, user-correctable connection faults are a good trade-off for having fewer long-term, actual-repair-needed "junk getting in there and breaking something" problems. See, on the complete opposite end of engineering robustness: the butterfly keyboard. The hinges in those things just loved to hoover in debris, and then ground themselves apart, with user repair (i.e. popping off the keycaps to get the debris out before it can break your keyboard) being "inadvisable" at best (i.e. likely destroying the hinges just as well as the debris would have.) > Lightning also has that problem where the 4th pin burns out and now you have a cable that charges one way. This is true, but it's due to the electrical design (sense and VCC right next to each-other), not the physical connector design. If USB-C had used a Lightning physical connector, they could have corrected this problem just by ordering the pinout differently.
- FireBeyond 5y ago
  To me, the device with the Lightning connector (my phone, my AirPods) spends far more time in places (like my jacket, jeans, shirt pocket, etc.) than do any of the connector ends in my many USB-C cables.
Retric 5y ago
That’s odd, I have never cleaned lint from an iPhone and I am on a long upgrade cycle. It might be an issue with your case or something.
brewdad 5y ago
Does no one use the Nintendo cartridge solution anymore?
- sudosysgen 5y ago
  Doesn't work. The lightning connector compacts the dust tightly and it can't be blown away.

gnicholas 5y ago

That's a lot of lint! I've had iPhones from day 1 and only needed to clean out 4-5 times total. Easy to do with a toothpick or canned air!

derefr 5y ago

> Maybe it doesn't happen cable end but it sure happens pocket end. I've mostly had Android phones and haven't had to clean as many USB C ports as the XS. I mean, from an engineering/repair POV, these sorts of short-term, user-correctable connection faults are a good trade-off for having fewer long-term, actual-repair-needed "junk getting in there and breaking something" problems. See, on the complete opposite end of engineering robustness: the butterfly keyboard. The hinges in those things just loved to hoover in debris, and then ground themselves apart, with user repair (i.e. popping off the keycaps to get the debris out before it can break your keyboard) being "inadvisable" at best (i.e. likely destroying the hinges just as well as the debris would have.) > Lightning also has that problem where the 4th pin burns out and now you have a cable that charges one way. This is true, but it's due to the electrical design (sense and VCC right next to each-other), not the physical connector design. If USB-C had used a Lightning physical connector, they could have corrected this problem just by ordering the pinout differently.

FireBeyond 5y ago
To me, the device with the Lightning connector (my phone, my AirPods) spends far more time in places (like my jacket, jeans, shirt pocket, etc.) than do any of the connector ends in my many USB-C cables.

Retric 5y ago

That’s odd, I have never cleaned lint from an iPhone and I am on a long upgrade cycle. It might be an issue with your case or something.

brewdad 5y ago

Does no one use the Nintendo cartridge solution anymore?

sudosysgen 5y ago
Doesn't work. The lightning connector compacts the dust tightly and it can't be blown away.