How to Pair Apple Pencil (1st generation) with your iPad (6th to 9th generations) Remove the cap from the back of the Pencil, and you’ll see a Lightning connector inside. Plug that into the ...

So much has changed since we first created that 30-pin connector. Narrator: Now, the same is true of Lightning. Apple's connectors have become fragmented. In 2018, it unveiled the new iPad Pro ...

When Apple refreshed its online store with a new USB-C to Lightning cable with support for fast charging through a 29W power adapter on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro last week, the addition immediately ...

The Lightning connector ... a lot of cheap and nasty cables too. The writing was on the wall as soon as Apple began transitioning to USB-C, starting with the iPad Pro in 2018.

Lightning is one end of the cable, with USB Type A at the other. Introduced in 2012 with the iPhone 5 and new iPods, Lightning superseded the 30-pin dock connector that dates back to 2001.