For years there’s been a standard theme with almost each Apple adapter and cable: You may get them in any coloration you want, so long as it’s white. Nonetheless, if rumors are true, that might be set to alter in a fairly large manner with this 12 months’s iPhone 15 lineup.
Whereas the traditional shiny “Apple white” stays the development for a lot of Apple merchandise (we’re taking a look at you, AirPods), Apple has been getting far more colourful over the previous few years. The iPhone, as soon as out there solely in variations on black, white, and gold, took a primary step into vibrancy with a (PRODUCT)RED iPhone 7 in early 2017 after which exploded right into a rainbow of recent colours in 2019 with the iPhone XR.
Then, in early 2021 Apple gave its new M1-powered iMac an enormous splash of coloration, marking the primary time in over 20 years {that a} desktop Mac was out there in a non-neutral end.
Nonetheless, Apple took that past the iMac’s casing. It additionally included a pleasant color-matched braided USB-C to Lightning cable within the field. When you can simply discover colourful USB-C cables from third-party sellers, Apple offering them within the field was a giant departure from years of white cables, connectors, and adapters — a development that had beforehand been damaged solely by the 2019 Mac Professional’s braided black USB-C to Lightning cable. It says loads when a black cable is taken into account one thing completely different.
Now, it seems to be like Apple could also be planning to take a web page out of the identical guide for this 12 months’s iPhone 15 lineup. Over the weekend, leaker Majin Bu shared images purporting to be of an iPhone 15 USB-C cable, though they weren’t assured within the supply.
Nonetheless, Kosutami corroborated that earlier at the moment with a number of extra images that confirmed iPhone 15 Professional USB-C cable samples from Apple’s Design Verification Testing (DVT) course of. Whereas the photographs all confirmed a black braided cable much like the one which ships with the Mac Professional, the leaker famous that the “polished gloss plastic shell” units it aside from the Mac Professional model.
In a follow-up post, Kosutami shared a photograph of 5 cables in several colours that presumably align with the finishes on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. Whereas the black cable makes use of black ends, the others have shiny white plastic on every finish. In keeping with what Kosutami instructed MacRumors, the brand new cables will are available in black, yellow, purple, and orange along with the usual white. In addition they notice that the “orange” might find yourself being extra of a pink or coral shade.
Extra considerably, these are anticipated to be far more sturdy braided cables, much like what Apple now ships with its Macs, moderately than the rubber white of the normal USB-C to Lightning cables that include the present iPhone fashions.
With Apple anticipated to make the leap over to USB-C ports with this 12 months’s iPhone lineup, these will likely be USB-C to USB-C cables moderately than Lightning, which makes it a great time for Apple to undertake a brand new cable design. Contemplating how a lot Apple has been transferring away from pack-ins, eliminating the EarPods and charging brick from its iPhone packaging three years in the past and leaving solely the moderately flimsy USB-C to Lightning cable, it’s additionally a pleasant manner of including a little bit of worth again into the combo.
[The information provided in this article has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation. Provided details may not be factual. Take all rumors, tech or otherwise, with a grain of salt.]