Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables

Ray Wong of Inverse discovered a hidden joy nowadays: The Apple Vision Pro power cable connects to the battery with what may be Lightning’s very last shape. Using a SIM elimination tool, he driven into a small hole in the silver outside battery percent of the Vision Pro next to the cable, and...


Out it popped, revealing what looks like a bigger, 12-pin version of the connector Apple’s iPhone moved away from last year. Nilay Patel, Verge editor-in-chief and Vision Pro reviewer, gave it a shot, and what do you already know?

The rumors are real. Like a Palpatinian twist, somehow, Lightning lower back, with all the hallmarks of Apple’s outgoing connector, simply wider and with extra pins. Whether this was Apple deliberately propping up the crumbling walls of its garden or it’s just trolling anyone after the EU basically compelled it to interchange the iPhone to USB-C, it’s a humorous discovery:

In an change timeline, this might have been USB-C, a part of a world where external batteries for the headset are considerable and don’t want Apple’s special approval (or is that spatial approval? Ha ha,
only a little Vision Pro humor there). Sure, you can plug a separate outside battery into the USB-C port of the battery p.C., however daisy-chaining transportable batteries together to get more than more than one hours of untethered use might be going too a ways.