If the thought of buying an iPhone 5 and then having to shell out a further £25 for the Lightning to 30-pin Adapter – just to use your own speaker dock – has left a bitter taste, prepare for some ...

Introduced in 2012 with the iPhone 5 and new iPods, Lightning superseded the 30-pin dock connector that dates back to 2001. The 30-pin cables and docks were adapted or updated. Lightning is ...

The current interface is USB Type C, which superseded Apple's own 30-pin and Lightning connectors as ... a Type C-to-3.5mm adapter is used, which contains a digital-to-analog converter.