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How do people find Lightning cables robust? Every single one I got from Apple failed around the one year mark. So much so that I finally started buying cheap knockoffs that only lasted 6 months but cost a tenth of official ones. To compare, I haven't seen a single Micro-USB or USB-C cable fail on me whether expensive or cheap. Am I simply uniquely unlucky in the matters of Lightning cables?

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> How do people find Lightning cables robust?

Had every Apple device that used Lightning and consequently have had a veritable smorgasbord of cables from official to Poundland to weird keyring ones; never had a single one fail.

Then again, I've not had a MicroUSB or USB-C cable fail on me either (without obvious physical damage like the one I half-melted by injudicious aiming of a blowtorch.)

My Apple Lightning cables weren't great either. They typically either started coming apart at the stress relief sleeve or the contacts would somehow corrode (other cables in the same container were fine).

I settled on buying packs of 3rd party braided cables for myself and parents so we could switch them out more easily.

With MagSafe, I rarely use a cable at all anymore!

> How do people find Lightning cables robust? Every single one I got from Apple failed

My third party cables are lasting 3-5 years. Absolutely would have preferred lightning cables, but it is what it is.

That said, Apples lightning cables were/are indeed quite low quality.

A few years ago, I bought a bunch of magnetic cables (with both Lightning and USB-C connectors - the cables are the same; only the connectors differ). I haven’t had any issues so far.

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