Soldato
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Do not buy that cable.
Even Amazon sell their one for a tenner. That’s just way to cheap for what it is.
Any chance of an iPhone coming with USB-C early next year
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Do not buy that cable.
Even Amazon sell their one for a tenner. That’s just way to cheap for what it is.
Buy cheap, buy twice.
Yeah like the crappy £2.19 USB C to USB A adapter I bought. Not too bothered as £2.19 is nothing and I’m glad I bought the cheapest. The decent Crucial one which is proven to work is only £7.88 ex VAT anyway.
I transferred a 688MB file from my iPad Pro which has USB C to USB C at both ends connected to a USB C port and it took about 100 seconds. Transferred the same file from my iPhone over a USB A port and it took 114 seconds. So not much difference in speed and nothing to get excited about.
The iPad Pro and iPhone just aren’t capable of fast file transfers over USB C or USB A, they’re not like an SSD drive.
Well I just put the 688MB file onto an external SSD USB C hard drive and connected that to the iPad Pro, it transferred the 688MB file to the iPad Pro almost instantly. So I can see where this would be useful.
Instead of transferring files over the USB C to USB C cable to the USB C port on your PC which is slow, you can transfer them to an external SSD USB C hard drive instead then connect that to your PC to have fast access to your large files.
It would then make sense to have a full speed USB C port on an iPhone so you could transfer large files to an external SSD hard drive first then plug that into your PC.
Instead of transferring files over the USB C to USB C cable to the USB C port on your PC which is slow, you can transfer them to an external SSD USB C hard drive instead then connect that to your PC to have fast access to your large files.
It would then make sense to have a full speed USB C port on an iPhone so you could transfer large files to an external SSD hard drive first then plug that into your PC.
Well I can take a 5 minute or longer video on my iPhone, then AirDrop it to my iPad Pro and go into the Photos app and save to downloads folder in Save to files. Then connect a USB C external SSD hard drive into the USB C port of my iPad Pro.
The USB C external hard drive automatically gets its power from the iPad Pro with just a USB C to USB C cable plugged in. Then go into the files app on the iPad Pro and move the video file I just saved to downloads to the external SSD drive which transfers very quickly.
Plug the USB C external SSD drive into PC and transfer file the video file across to the videos folder on PC which transfers very quickly and I'm done.
Saves me having to plug an external hard drive directly into iPhone which needs all sorts of adapters and would be limited by USB 2.0. For extremely large video file captures this should be quicker than plugging the iPhone directly into a USB A port with the USB C to USB A adapter and transferring that way.
I've also turned off iCloud for Photos on both iPhone and iPad as its just a pain.
The USB C external hard drive automatically gets its power from the iPad Pro with just a USB C to USB C cable plugged in. Then go into the files app on the iPad Pro and move the video file I just saved to downloads to the external SSD drive which transfers very quickly.
Plug the USB C external SSD drive into PC and transfer file the video file across to the videos folder on PC which transfers very quickly and I'm done.
Saves me having to plug an external hard drive directly into iPhone which needs all sorts of adapters and would be limited by USB 2.0. For extremely large video file captures this should be quicker than plugging the iPhone directly into a USB A port with the USB C to USB A adapter and transferring that way.
I've also turned off iCloud for Photos on both iPhone and iPad as its just a pain.
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Soldato
That’s so convoluted instead of just going to www.iCloud.com and downloading your video from there
I tried downloading a 688MB/s file from iCloud on my PC and it was slow 3MB/s and it crapped out at 20%. Its no different from AirDropping to a Mac then transferring to an external SSD drive to connect to a PC. Besides the free iCloud only gives you 5GB which is not much.
Also when you transfer a video file this way it automatically converts it to HVEC format which means a 5 minute video shot on iPhone changes from 688MB to 253MB.
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Well what I didn't realise is that by default the iPhone captures at 1080p which means an hour of HVEC compressed 1080p video is roughly 4GB. If you change the camera settings to record at 2160p 24fps, a minute of HVEC compressed video is 146MB so roughly 9GB an hour.
Was just recording some video outside my window as a test and I noticed in my one minute 2160p 24fps video that some nosey bitch was looking out her kitchen window at me from about 37s in until the end.
I'm not doing anything wrong or spying on her or anything I was just testing. I wish people would keep their noses out of other peoples business.
Was just recording some video outside my window as a test and I noticed in my one minute 2160p 24fps video that some nosey bitch was looking out her kitchen window at me from about 37s in until the end.
I'm not doing anything wrong or spying on her or anything I was just testing. I wish people would keep their noses out of other peoples business.
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I just Airdropped a 1.52GB 10 minute 4K 24fps video capture from my iPhone 14 Pro Max to my iPad Pro 2022 and it took 18 seconds. So that is about 84.5MB/s transfer rate. Got about 6MB/s transfer rate using the charging cable so Airdrop much better. iCloud transfer rate was about 3MB/s.
So transferring an hour of 4K 24fps video footage at about 9.12GB file size would take approximately 1 minute 48 seconds. When the iPhone finally gets full speed USB C port you can skip the Airdrop stage and transfer straight to an external USB C SSD drive which would be really quick.
It sounds more complicated than it is, all I’m doing is transferring a file(s) from iPhone to iPad Pro then moving it to an external SSD drive using USB C. Much quicker then using iCloud or the charging cable.
You can plug an external hard drive into an iPhone with the right adapter and get up to 60MB/s transfer rates which is a lot quicker than using the charging cable which is what I guess most people without an Apple device to Airdrop to would use.
I was only getting about 6MB/s with the charging cable so even an external hard drive connected to an iPhone lightning port would be much faster.
My prediction (FWIW) is that ALL future iphone releases, from this point on, will be USB C ... even budget ones (the cheaper ones being USB 2.0 speeds). The reasoning is simple ... the EU directive needs to be obeyed irrespective of product release date and Apple needs depth of SKUs at different price points. It needs to sell 2023 phones still in 2025. So no more lightning.
... I might be wrong. But I don't think so.
... I might be wrong. But I don't think so.
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