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Back in October 2022, the EU ruled for a one-size-fits-all charging port regulation to come into effect by 2024, making the USB-C mandatory for a whole range of electronic devices – including Apple's iPhone models. Since this new regulation has a deadline of 2024, Apple begun the switch, changing the iPhone 15 port to a USB-C. But does this switch also come with higher data transfer speeds?

The entire iPhone 15 line have USB-C ports, however, only the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models offer speedier data transfers.

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models support USB 3.0 data transfer speeds up to 10Gbps. The standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus models, however, supports USB 2.0 speeds of just 480Mbps, which is the same as Lightning.

What do higher data transfer speeds mean?

While higher data transfer speeds sound good, what does it actually mean for you as a user?

For the majority of people, increasing the data transfer speed from 480Mbps to 10Gbps won't be of much use. However, these higher speeds could be extremely useful to the right person.

For those who shoot 4K footage using their iPhone or that have lots of large files that they need to transfer to another device, higher data transfer speeds with reduce the time you spend waiting for your files to transfer from your iPhone to your other device.

Understandably, not everyone would want or need the higher transfer speeds, in which case the slower speeds of USB 2.0 should be enough for most people.

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