USB C female to USB A male adapter

nlel1975

nlel1975

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I've looked at what ocUK sell and they don't appear to stock anything like this. I've just bought a USB C female to USB A male adapter on eBay for £2.19 free delivery...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403914290408

Will be handy to connect an iPad Pro with USB C or iPhone 14 with USB C to Lightning connector for data transfer purposes to machines that only have USB A ports. Won't get full USB C speeds obviously nor will it charge at USB C rates but allows you to make the physical connection.
 
I might like to transfer some photos from an iPad Pro which uses USB type C or an iPhone 14 using the USB C to lightning connector to a PC. I don't own a Mac.
 
Feek said:
I only really discovered Airdrop to the Mac from my phone recently, you're right, it works very well but sadly not suitable for @nlel1975
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Yeah I’m a PC man but still like some Apple products, I use my iPad a lot, more than my PC. I could never be satisfied with a Mac especially for gaming.
 
My motherboard has 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 type C on the rear which is a USB 3.1 10Gbps not a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 type C 20Gbps port which is full speed type C.

There are no USB 3.2 Gen 2 type C front panel headers on the motherboard. The front panel headers are USB 3.2 Gen 1 type A 5Gbps.

So if I connect the dongle to my case front panel USB ports it will only work at USB 3.0 speeds. If I connect directly into the rear type C port it will run at 10 Gbps USB 3.1.

It will be a pain reaching down the back of the PC to plug into the type C USB 3.1 port.

So my motherboard has no USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 type C 20Gbps ports on the rear or on the front panel headers.
 
Well, I thought I'd try connecting my iPhone 14 Pro Max to the USB C port on the back of my Windows 11 computer. It charges fine but you can't use it to transfer data, iTunes doesn't recognise it. Can't see any files under This PC either.

Connected my iPad Pro to the same port and iTunes recognises it and I can see the files on it under This PC. So, it looks like I'm going to have to use that USB C female to USB A male adapter with the iPhone 14 or buy an official lightning to USB A cable in order to transfer files and have it detected in iTunes.

The USB C to lightning cable is only for charging the phone quickly and can't be used to connect to a Windows PC to transfer data. The situation with Macs may differ.

Found this post which suggests it maybe to do with AMD CPU/Chipset.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ru-usb-c/1a37fab7-b615-4c90-9374-a63901733867
 
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Received a USB C to USB A adapter today. It is actually part of a Christmas present for my brother as I got him an external SSD hard drive which uses USB C. So I borrowed it until mine arrives.

Anyway the iPhone is now detected in iTunes and I can get files off it under This PC.

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So the problem with connecting it to the USB C port is definitely to do with AMD CPU or AMD Chipset. My motherboard is four years old now so it may have been fixed on newer motherboards.

My brother has an Intel CPU and intel motherboard and he doesn't have any problems connecting his iPhone to a USB C port for iTunes or file transfers.

I also timed the transfer of a 688MB file from iPhone to PC and it took 114 seconds so roughly 6MB/s better than iCloud transfers and more reliable.
 
Well I connected my iPad Pro to the USB C port on the back of my computer and transferred that 688MB file from it to my PC. It still took 100 seconds to transfer. So having USB C to USB C rather than USB C to lightning doesn't make much difference in terms of transfer speeds. Which is probably why Apple aren't rushing to implement it on iPhones.

If you think about it external SSD drives are much faster at read and writes then the memory inside an iPad or iPhone so you're never going to see the 350MB/s transfer rates you'd get with an external SSD drive connected even to a USB 3.0 port.
 
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