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A cable with a Lightning connector on one end and a 30-pin Dock on the other? £30.Ī cable with a USB connector on one end and a Lightning connector on the other? £15. While Lightning is capable of delivering video output, it doesn't do so when it's connected to a Dock adaptor: as Apple's spec page says, the adaptor supports "analog audio output, USB audio as well as syncing and charging video output not supported." The Lightning adaptors are frighteningly expensiveįancy an adaptor that enables you to connect an existing Dock cable or connector to a Lightning port? Yours for £25. However, it wouldn't require much extra engineering to chuck USB 3.0 down there, and Apple also promises Lightning-to-HDMI and Lightning-to-VGA cables. Lightning is based on USB 2.0, not the faster 3.0 or Thunderbolt cables, presumably for cost reasons. A Lightning connector isn't as fast as a Thunderbolt one Lightning works with both kinds of cable, Dock and USB, although that comes at a price - that processor is also an authentication device to ensure only official Lightning cables and connectors are used.

That's a vast improvement over the Dock, which is awfully fiddly on an iPad 2 or 3, and over USB, which is wrong whichever way you plug it in. This is no dumb cable: the Lightning connector has a processor that can tell which way round you've plugged it in, and that processor then reroutes the electrical signals so that it works correctly whether it's upside down or the right way up. The Lightning Connector has a processor in it It's a little bit bigger than a micro-USB connector, but only by a little bit. Where the Dock connector had 30 pins, the Lighting one has just eight signal pins - and that means it's much, much smaller, which helps Apple make super-slim devices such as the iPhone 5. Here's what you need to know… The Lightning connector is very small Using 8 pins instead of 30, Lightning is much smaller than its predecessor, which was integrated with devices like the iPhone 4 and the iPad 2. It's significantly smaller than the outgoing Dock, but it's received a bit of a mixed reaction from people who've splashed out on Dock-connecting accessories and cables and don't fancy paying for expensive adaptors. The Lightning connector is used to connect Apple mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and iPods to host computers, external monitors, cameras, USB battery chargers, and other peripherals.