Customer Reviews & Ratings for Lightning to USB Cable (1m)

I've had my iPod about a month now and the charger is already broken. Reading the comments on here and factoring in the price, I'm beginning to think these things are more trouble than they're worth. I might just go back to my blackberry...

4 of 4 people found this useful

I was very carefully with charging an syncro but it last no more than a year.

8 of 12 people found this useful

I only used this cable for 11 months before it stopped working. Yes, I was extremely careful with it. The price does not suit the quality of the cable. Apple needs to make their cables more long-lasting and durable.

7 of 11 people found this useful

Like everyone else, I think this cable is poorly designed at the lightning connector end. One accidental kink or pull on the cord and the wires are screwed. From then on it will be "guess which angle will work" until it just stops altogether. Currently, I have to wedge it against something at a 90 degree angle and hope that it doesn't move. If you travel with this thing, put it in a hard case by itself because it doesn't handle getting jostled about very well.

I'll contrast this with the old 30-pin connector which has lasted years of travel, being shoved in bags of other equipment and mashed around a great deal. I think there are two problems: 1) the old connector would usually disconnect if too much force were applied on the cord, preventing the wires from inadvertently breaking. You really have to apply some force to the new connector to disconnect it, which opens the door for accidents. 2) the old connector was wider, so easier to grab at the sides without accidentally bending the cord. The new connector is so thin you have to be very careful where you're grabbing it and which angle you're pulling to maintain the integrity of the cord.

After reading all these reviews, I might just get a bunch of cheap third-party knockoffs that are a fraction of the Apple price. Sad that this has to be a budgeting factor.

8 of 15 people found this useful

I'm now having to dish out yet another $30 for a (apple wouldn't let me publish the word here) product that doesn't work for more than three months if you're lucky at usual wear and tear. The next phone I get will be a Samsung.

9 of 16 people found this useful

I have gone through FOUR cables in the last month because they are so poorly designed. Overall, pretty disappointed. Apple needs to rethink their innovations because they lost it.

7 of 12 people found this useful

I will be replacing my cable for perhaps the fifth time in just over a year. The cable is used minimally and well cared for and still they die one by one. Trust me they aren't on the battlefield or being used as jump rope- it's used on my bedside table and charges while I am asleep.

While travelling last week I had to bring spare cables just in case one or more stopped working.

The previous cables were a pain to plug in but they seemed to last longer than a month...

12 of 16 people found this useful

These cables are VERY expensive for what they do yet are also VERY prone to faults and to early failure

Apple, you should not be OK with this. This is letting you down badly. A cable. A simple cable is letting down the whole of the iPhone experience.

You need to redesign it so that it is more robust. Better still, revisit the idea of the dock which will solve many of these issues. Better Better still, do wireless charging

11 of 12 people found this useful

Multiple cables broken for both iPhone and nano. 7 in total so far. Hope this is dealt with before iPhone 6 launches. Can't justify spending over 600 euro on a phone when your can't rely on the charger to power it up! 0 star rating

3 of 6 people found this useful

Gone through 4 of these in the time I have had my ipod 5th generation compared to when I had the ipod 4th generation where I had the original cable for years.

6 of 7 people found this useful