That's not as easy as you'd think. The connector contains a chip on a tiny teeny PCB. And you'd need to re-route signals _after_ that chip in order for this to do anything.
Ha, the up side of my failed usb port I guess... I can only wirelessly charge is the downside...
Any reason one couldn’t remove the lightning port entirely? And charge only wirelessly (Qi), using Bluetooth for audio?
The only reason might be something only available through the lightning port. The only thing I can imagine is trying to restore from backup if the OS got messed up for some reason or the screen is broken and touch UI is not an easy option.
Just cram a bunch of lint in the port :)
Always scares me when that happens
One could remove the lightning port, or fill it with epoxy. But the lightning port is a replaceable module, so sufficiently motivated party would just perform an easy repair job of replacing a new lightning port.
Sneaky, I like it. But you'll definitely will need an above-average soldering station, and skill.
Way above average. Those USB ports are nigh-impossible to solder, I'm not even sure how you'd "swap the data pins".
How does one go about integrating an USB Killer inside an iPhone?