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I have an older (USB-A plug) tiny, official iPhone charger brick of that fold-out-two-blade sort which has become either terrifying or hilarious, depending on your temperament, by having whatever connects the two blades break. If you're not paying attention, it's easy to extend only one of the blades...

I've not attempted to charge with only the hot-wire blade extended, but I cannot imagine anything good would happen.

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I really expected a 3rd party company to be producing 3-pronged versions of that adapter. In the UK the ground pin is a requirement as sockets will not fully open up the other two before the ground pin is inserted, and Apple's UK adapter has a metal ground pin, BUT still it's not connected to the 3rd internal prong of the charger. The extension cables that you can still buy separately, and that used to come free in 2012-2015 MacBooks have the 3rd prong, hence are grounded. WHY, APPLE?

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