Lightning Cable

Fulgent

You are so helpful, obviously I am not worthy of taking up so much of your time. Perhaps you have some others to help on here, I am sure they will be grateful.

AlecEiffel

My spare cables are belkin and griffin, both from tesco, still working fine after 18 months.

Alton_Towers

Wilkinsons do a compatible lightening cable for around £3.00 that was the only one that would work with my daughters iPod, pound shop lightening cables wouldn't charge it.

paddyrg

It does seem a bit rotten that cables aren't lasting for you. Can you pre-empt their weak points and use your own heat-shrink or even electrical tape or even vet wrap built up in layers to shore up that vulnerable section of cable? My wife kills micro USB cables at a rate I can't compete with, but of all things, vet wrap has been the most helpful in increasing their lifespan. Or if you can find some sugru in a hardware shop, that could be good too.

Moneymaker

You might get more sensible replies if you sign up to the Mac-L (free) self-help email group:
http://www.listmoms.net/mac-l/

garybuk

Wow people love to bash Apple instead of answering the question eh?

I've got about 12 Lightning cables (all originals) and none have ever gone bad; are you using genuine chargers? If not they can be really really dangerous.

Try out the Amazon Basics lighting cables, about £7 - £10 depending on the length.

custardy

garybuk wrote: »

Wow people love to bash Apple instead of answering the question eh?

I've got about 12 Lightning cables (all originals) and none have ever gone bad; are you using genuine chargers? If not they can be really really dangerous.

Try out the Amazon Basics lighting cables, about £7 - £10 depending on the length.

Would genuine not be an Apple cable?

enfield_freddy

selective removal of post time happening again (check the quoted txted)

Big_Graeme

AlecEiffel wrote: »

My spare cables are belkin and griffin, both from tesco, still working fine after 18 months.

In my experience the Belkin ones are of a better build quality than the Apple ones, I still have a couple of pound shop ones that do the job when I go away.

Fulgent

Thanks for the replies, much appreciate it. I have ordered a few of the Amazon ones. And will try that apple email thing. Will update this with some feedback on the Amazon cables.