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One of the many rumors about the iPhone 13 that have reached us in recent months is the idea that the device could ditch the Lightning connection entirely and go completely portless, and we’ve just received a few more details on how that could be accomplished. this.
According to information obtained by Appleosophy, Apple’s hardware and software engineers are exploring an iPhone recovery method over the Internet, which would use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth instead of a physical cable to reset an iPhone.
At the moment, you can return an iPhone to its factory settings via iOS, but if the device won’t turn on or the software is corrupted, you need to connect it to a PC or Mac. Under the new system, that physical connection would not be necessary. .
Instead, the iPhone would transmit a kind of help signal over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, allowing a computer connection, Appleosophy reports. Alternatively, the smartphone could start up and go through the recovery process on its own, once connected.
To be confirmed
These ideas are still being explored within Apple, apparently, and the Bluetooth option is currently the least popular among engineers due to potential security issues (maybe someone reboots their phone without your permission).
It doesn’t seem like Apple has made a decision on how this will be handled, but this ‘Internet Recovery’ approach is one way the iPhone 13 or other future iPhone could get rid of the Lightning port for good.
Charging would also have to be exclusively wireless, of course, and we assume that Apple would eventually make the same move with the iPad. Appleosophy says that Apple has learned from the Apple Watch, that it cannot be easily reset if the software is unresponsive without returning it to Apple.
Appleosophy isn’t a source we’ve heard much about recently, so don’t take that as final just yet, but the rumor does fit with previous reports about Apple wanting to make the iPhone portless in the next few years.
Via Apple Insider
