I Tried a Bunch of USB-C Accessories for the iPhone 15 Pro

I Tried a Bunch of USB-C Accessories for the iPhone 15 Pro

With this USB type-c port let’s try some accessories you might now be interested in for your iPhone. Like external SSDs. Everyone hates running out of space on their iPhones when taking pictures, and some of us don’t want to spend so much money on storage on a phone that we’ll outgrow in 3 or so years. So with an external SSD like this Samsung T7 or Synology BeeDrive, you can get a ton of storage without paying $500 for a TB of space. They can be used with your iPad, Mac, Android, and PC too. You can offload anything you have in the “files” app on your iPhone to an external drive. If you want to send photos or videos to your external drive, just open the photos app, select the items, press the share button, then save to files and choose your external drive. Easy. External drives can also be used as a saving location for videos you take from the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max when plugged in, which frees up some space on your phone if you were planning to just offload the footage onto your computer anyway to edit it. Overall, I like the convenience that external SSDs provide, because they’re not too big but give me space back on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:57 Why Did They Switch to USB-C?
2:32 External Storage
5:43 Chargers
6:41 USB-C to Lightning Adapters
8:20 Gamepads
10:25 USB-C Hubs and Dongles
11:48 Wireless Earbuds
12:56 Bonus Recommendation
13:20 Conclusion

Okay. So during the Apple event, they really liked highlighting the gaming potential of the iPhone. They sell a lightning version for older iPhones or a USB-C version for every other phone. The USB-C version supports the iPhone 15 series and has the courage to add back the headphone jack and a USB-C port for passthrough charging. I can confirm all of the functionality works fine. And oh god. I’m playing this game again. Help me. The nice thing about the backbone one is that you can use it with your Windows PC, Mac, Android tablet, or iPad by connecting to them through the usb-c port. So the backbone has been a great laying-in-bed handheld controller for when I want to play iOS games or remotely play on a PS5. It also makes a great portable game controller for travel.

I mentioned earlier that the usb-c port on the iPhone supports doing a lot of things, and I highly recommend you get a usb-c hub of some kind that supports all the functions you need. The port can handle video, audio, charging, and data. So having something like this usb-c hub that has all those features in one, is really nice because you can use it with your computer and tablet too. So I can plug my iPhone into this, and into an HDMI cable, and have all of my screen mirrored to the monitor or TV. I can plug in SD cards and move photos and videos on or off my phone and plug in any other accessories I need and still charge it in the process too. It’s a nice little emergency tech item that works for all your devices.

Then there are a ton of Magsafe accessories that can be used for all iPhones starting with the 12. There are a ton of these that add a bunch of cool functionality to your iPhone. To save you some time, and not repeat myself, I’ve made a video talking about all of those already. So if you’re interested in that check out the link above.

iPhones with USB-C support charging wireless earbuds and smartwatches with a usb-c cable. As if your phone was the battery bank. And I’m happy that this works for both Apple and non-apple products. Airpods and AirPods Pro were updated with USB-C and work seamlessly if you own a bunch of Apple products. I can use mine without having to touch any settings between my Macbook Pro, Mac Studio, iPhone, and iPad. But the moment you want to use them with other devices, pairing them and changing settings can be a pain. So if you have an iPhone but not a lot of other Apple products, I’d look at wireless earbuds with usb-c ports that have multipoint capabilities. Like the Sony WF-1000XM5s. Multipoint enables these to pair to multiple devices and switch between them. I really like the WF-1000XM5s because you get a ton of customizability in Sony’s headphones app, and feature for feature, spec for spec, these Sony’s match up to the Airpods Pro really really well. But if you’re primarily using Apple products. Airpods are the way to go.