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You can’t charge your phone while using it without a Lightning or other connector. My wife has an iPhone X with wireless charging and at least twice a week her phone isn’t charged. It’s dumb. It requires a flat surface. It falls off. You can’t send high-res video or multi-channel audio... it would be assinine to remove it. Work on giving us complete wireless functionality first, and then when we no longer need wires, remove it.

boltsfan17 said:

This will be annoying if CarPlay stops while you are driving. Hopefully there is a setting to disable it while using CarPlay. 

I think the idea is that if USB is started while authenticated, it will continue even if unauthenticated. Apple is trying to prevent the situation where the user had authenticated the device and then have a week to get it connected to a device to crack it. Instead you have one hour since the last authentication to connect it.

freshfacedrecruit said:

Eric_WVGG said:

I don't mean to be a dick, but I don't understand how you give a new product "5 out of 5 stars" when it's incompatible with every Macbook* released in the last three years.

(*by "macbook", I mean the modern ecosystem including Macbooks, Macbook chargers and high-speed iOS chargers)

USB-C or GTFO

N likewise, "I don't mean to be a ...", but you did not choose the title of the thread, which contains the word "iPhone", which by definition means connecting via lighting.

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/gadgets/how-usb-type-c-has-failed-android-smartphone-users-why-apple-s-lightning-connector-is-best-334628.html

"In the end, it all boils down to this. USB Type-C was supposed to be this amazing platform that could enable people to carry just one cable to do a bunch of things together, but the poor implementation has led to an even more complicated and cluttered ecosystem that just makes Apple’s Lightning connector far more practical despite USB Type-C’s diverse capabilities."

responding to the entire article/post, a decade ago, I might have used one of these. After going to(wasting so much of my life for the thousandth time dealing with those 'brillaintly' trained 'geniuses' @Apple Store, being told that I could not have a absurdly placed(at the corner instead of center, where probability is much higher for accidental breakage>>> sapphire lens cover that is worth what $1-3? replaced, Apple will not do it, they told me...must buy a new iPhone model xxx?

I bought a cheapo battery charging case for protection> to kill d bird with 2 stones...er something like that old saying  , Simphee, 2500ma for ip6(newer version, not always seen on Amazon) & 3600ma ip+, both give me all-day runtime when I"m on the bus for in rush hour traffic for 6hrs frantically trying to get some damned correct transit routing via some craptastic mobile version of Google Maps or Apples 'Maps'<<<not much luck...nothing to carry with me like some cable I always am searching for @home or in the car...simple: #ditchthecord.

He’s talking about the end you plug into your computer, not the Lightning port. We all have modern MacBooks and MacBook Pros with USB-C. So now I would have to carry  an additional adapter to either charge the battery cable, or an adapter to connect it to my MacBook Pro. 

In the end, this product does not make sense to me. Instead of carrying a single cable I can plug into my Mac to charge my phone, I now would carry a big, bulky cable with an ugly tumor and additional equipment to charge it. Instead, I bought a high-powered battery pack that I can use with my Mac (thanks USB-C) and charge with my Mac power cord (thanks USB-C) and charge my phone and I’ve added.... just the battery pack that I take when I need it.

“Apple highlighted a quick action that would instantly add a watermark to every selected image in one click, but that doesn't seem to be available at this time.”

It was made clear that this was an Automater macro that was added to the action bar so you would need to do that yourself.

What? Never heard of this issue before and I’m sure we would have heard of something by now if there was an issue.

Its also likely that *if* there is an issue, that it’s related to battery health. You can’t have a tightly packed computer with a high-powered battery and not engineer a safety system to prevent a chain reaction in the event the battery vents. In that case the only way to go is up which means to push the screen out. That’s an engineering consideration that is VERY justified.