{"id":39305,"date":"2023-05-08T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39305"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:40:23","slug":"limiting-iphone-usb-c-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/08\/limiting-iphone-usb-c-speeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Limiting iPhone USB-C Speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/05\/04\/eu-warns-apple-about-limiting-usb-c-iphone-cables\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35849043\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/05\/04\/eu-warns-apple-about-limiting-usb-c-iphone-cables\/\"><p>It was rumored in February that Apple may be planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/02\/28\/iphone-15-usb-c-accessories-limited-without-mfi\/\">limit charging speeds and other functionality of USB-C cables<\/a> that are not certified under its &ldquo;Made for iPhone&rdquo; program. Like the Lightning port on existing iPhones, a small chip inside the USB-C port on iPhone 15 models would confirm the authenticity of the USB-C cable connected.<\/p><p>&ldquo;I believe Apple will optimize the fast charging performance of MFi-certified chargers for the iPhone 15,&rdquo; Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/03\/21\/kuo-iphone-usb-c-faster-charging-speeds\/\">said in March<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In response to this rumor, European Commissioner Thierry Breton has sent Apple a letter warning the company that limiting the functionality of USB-C cables would not be permitted and would prevent iPhones from being sold in the EU when the law goes into effect, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/digital\/mobil\/2023-05\/eu-kommission-apple-ladekabel-einschraenkungen-warnung\">German newspaper <em>Die Zeit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/eu-passes-law-to-switch-iphone-to-usb-c\/\">EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (Hacker News): It was rumored in February that Apple may be planning to limit charging speeds and other functionality of USB-C cables that are not certified under its &ldquo;Made for iPhone&rdquo; program. Like the Lightning port on existing iPhones, a small chip inside the USB-C port on iPhone 15 models would confirm the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-08T18:40:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"9478ca19-11ea-48ca-bfee-84f7b42cac6e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-08T18:40:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlHjKGRHqSMq_7oT3tCysbg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1927,31,2321,85,2377,1154],"class_list":["post-39305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-european-union","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-15","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39306,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39305\/revisions\/39306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}