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iPhone 15 models equipped with USB-C instead of Lightning were in testing as early as January 2022, and all designs after March 2022 focused on a USB-C port.
Apple’s transition to USB-C on the iPhone has been one of the most consistent rumors, and the company is expected to ditch the Lightning port for all four models that are coming this year. Both Pro and standard models alike will charge via USB-C instead of Lightning, a first for the iPhone.
Some details about USB-C on the iPhone 15:
It was in testing as far back as January 2022, and pretty much all designs since March 2022 have had the USB-C port instead of lightning.
There was a version with a lightning port very early on, but it was quickly scrapped.
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USB-C ports have been included in the Mac lineup since 2015 and the iPad line since 2018. All iPads that Apple sells now feature a USB-C port, in fact, so the only iOS devices that still use Lightning are the iPhones. Apple is planning to transition to USB-C for the iPhone because of European regulations that mandate a common charger for electronic devices.
The Lightning port is not permitted under these rules, so Apple had the option of introducing USB-C just in Europe and sticking with Lightning everywhere else, or using USB-C worldwide and eliminating Lightning entirely. USB-C across all Apple devices will make charging simpler because iPhones, iPads, and Macs will be able to share the same cable and power adapter.
Apple will eventually need to update the third-generation AirPods, AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Max, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, Magic Keyboard, and original Apple Pencil, all devices that continue to charge with Lightning.
Apple may not need to rely on USB-C charging for too long, as the company has been pushing MagSafe wireless charging. iPhones since the iPhone 12 have incorporated MagSafe, and Apple could be planning to add similar technology to future iPad models. There have been rumors that Apple’s eventual goal is to have a portless, all-display iPhone, and with MagSafe and the upcoming launch of Qi2, that may be possible at some point. The Qi2 standard will allow for faster MagSafe-like charging speeds and will serve as a more open alternative to MagSafe.
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“Can you imagine what would have happened if we had wanted to do that?” he added. The U.K. has some 10.9 million cats, according to the 2022 PDSA Animal Wellbeing report. The bombshell revelations have sparked astonishment from some on social media, with users sharing images of their own cats and vowing they would have put up a fight. 10 Downing Street’s own feline friend Larry’s unofficial Twitter parody account wrote: “hard not to take this personally.”
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THE Government considered “exterminating” all pet cats amid fears they could be spreading Covid, a former health minister has said.
Lord Bethell said the concern about pets underlined how little was known about the disease at the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020.
Lord Bethell revealed ministers had considered culling all of Britain’s domestic cats at the start of the Covid pandemic[/caption]
He told Channel 4 News: “What we shouldn’t forget is how little we understood about this disease.
“There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease.
“In fact, there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain.
“Can you imagine what would have happened if we had wanted to do that?
“And yet, for a moment there was a bit of evidence around that so that had to be investigated and closed down.”
Lord Bethell was Matt Hancock‘s deputy in the Department of Health and Social Care from 2020 to 2021.
It comes after a Covid row erupted after 100,000 pandemic WhatsApp messages to and from Mr Hancock were leaked.
In one of the biggest unofficial disclosures of government data, it was revealed children in England were forced to wear face masks to appease Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
And Mr Hancock stands accused of ignoring scientific advice on testing the elderly and frail moving into care homes.
Last night, Downing Street was at panic stations amid fears Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might be dragged into the row over the messages, leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
And Mr Hanock’s allies said he was considering legal action over claims he ignored pleas from the country’s top doctor, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, to test those entering care homes from the community.
His spokesman said it was “flat wrong” he had rejected the idea of giving Covid tests to everyone.
According to the messages, at the time in 2020 Mr Hancock insisted it was “not currently possible” to test all arrivals in care homes.
Despite saying testing for all was “obviously a good, positive step” he then told an aide it “muddies the water”, with tests necessary only for those coming from hospital.
Figures show more than 43,000 care home residents died of Covid between 2020 and 2022.
Ex-Sunday Times journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who previously described lockdowns as an “unmitigated disaster,” said she leaked the messages as she feared the official Covid inquiry would be a “colossal whitewash”.
Lord Bethell dismissed claims Covid decisions were made via messaging.
He said: “This partial glimpse gives a misleading impression.”
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