Current Events > Am I just bad at taking care of iPhone charger cables or all of them bad?

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Official ones last about a year. Other brands for me have lived from 2 days to a year. Why the fuck do I need to keeo buying cables??

Think its just you mate
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Usually they stop working gradually without visible damage. Like now it doest always charge if its positioned wrong. So its gonna stop working in a few weeks or months.

you sure it's bad cables and not caked-on lint or dust inside the phone charging port causing a bad connection?

That turned out to be my problem when I kept having connectivity issues with my charging cords. Took a needle and carefully scraped it all out, and all my cables work great again.

Get a magnetic end you just leave in there.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/4/AAEhCpAADqDS.jpg

Funny thing is I only had this one four months and for the last month its looked like that, and worked completely fine.

Buy something better off of Amazon. The only official charger I use is the one for my laptop.

Mearcstapa posted...

you sure it's bad cables and not caked-on lint or dust inside the phone charging port causing a bad connection?

That turned out to be my problem when I kept having connectivity issues with my charging cords. Took a needle and carefully scraped it all out, and all my cables work great again.

Nah I keep it clean, cable does same thing to another new iphone.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Get a magnetic end you just leave in there.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/4/AAEhCpAADqDS.jpg

Wont that disconnect easy ans hard to use phone when charging?

Alteres posted...

Funny thing is I only had this one four months and for the last month its looked like that, and worked completely fine.

I think ive had a really bad one with wires poking out, but it worked.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Get a magnetic end you just leave in there.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/4/AAEhCpAADqDS.jpg

This

I think it's Apple. I never had an iPhone, but I went through so many chargers for my iPod, it's kind of ridiculous. Meanwhile, I still have a 10+ year old micro USB cable that still works.

I've never had a charging that lasted a long time. My Titan cable has lasted a year so far.

I havent found any that hold up well myself and been using iPhones since the 5s

I use a wireless charging pad at home but have to keep buying cables to use in my car. Id say they usually last like half a year or so.

I have a 3 year old charger/ cable dat I use daily, still works perfectly fine.

NoxObscuras posted...

I think it's Apple. I never had an iPhone, but I went through so many chargers for my iPod, it's kind of ridiculous. Meanwhile, I still have a 10+ year old micro USB cable that still works.

The old 15 pin or whatever ones really didn't last very long, though I've found lightning cables to be crazy hit-or-miss, and if you're in a position where you'll be moving them around a lot (like keeping a charger in your bag) they really don't last.

Get braided cables.

iPhone cables are notoriously poorly made.

FF_Redux posted...

Wont that disconnect easy ans hard to use phone when charging?

The inline ones are a bit more stable than the right-angle one, but they all hold pretty well.

I use these for all of my 'mini' consoles, after the USB on one of them got a bit flaky. They grip good enough for that.

s0nicfan posted...

iPhone cables are notoriously poorly made.

They are. Back when I still had to use lightning cables the Apple branded ones were the worst. Hell, even when they were still using the larger pin connector the rubber would strip out around those cables as well. It's intentional and it prints money.

The chargers suck but you also need to learn to coil your cable and take care of copper