Apple Lightning To Usb 1MMXLY2ZM/A

Apple Lightning to USB Cable, 1 Metre (MXLY2ZM/A)

Apple’s Lightning to USB cable in the 1 metre length is the original charging and sync lead for Lightning devices: USB-A at the charger or computer end, Lightning at the iPhone, iPad or accessory end. It charges from any USB-A port or adapter and syncs with computers, and after more than a decade of Lightning devices it remains the cable those devices were designed around. This is the genuine Apple article MXLY2ZM/A.

Key features

• Genuine Apple cable, article MXLY2ZM/A
• Lightning connector for iPhone, iPad and accessories
• USB-A at the source end for chargers and computers
• 1 metre length for desks, cars and nightstands
• Charges and syncs Lightning devices
• The cable Lightning devices were designed around

The universal spare

USB-A ports are everywhere the modern world already built: car dashboards, older laptops, hotel lamps, aeroplane seats, the adapters accumulated over a decade. A Lightning to USB cable works in all of them, which is why it remains the household spare and the travel backup even in homes that have moved to USB-C for their main charging. One metre reaches from those ports to a hand or a desk without a coil of excess.

Charge and sync, without negotiation

The cable does both of its jobs without settings: charging from any sound USB-A source at the rate the device and source agree, and syncing, backing up and updating through a computer. It is not the fast-charge route (that is the USB-C to Lightning cable with a 20 W adapter), and it does not pretend to be; it is the dependable standard-speed connection the entire Lightning ecosystem was built on.

The genuine article

Lightning cables are among the most counterfeited accessories sold, and the copies fail exactly where it hurts: cracked connector shells, frayed reliefs, intermittent connections mid-backup. Apple’s own cable carries the certified connector and strain reliefs designed for daily winding and pocket carry. Pull plugs by their housings, keep bends gentle, and it will serve several devices in succession.

Still the right cable for millions of devices

Lightning served Apple for a decade, and the devices it powers (iPhones from the 5 to the 14 generation, iPads, AirPods cases, keyboards, mice and remotes) remain in daily use in enormous numbers. Each of them charges and syncs through this connector, and most of the world’s available ports for them are USB-A. Until the last of those devices retires, the genuine Lightning to USB cable stays on the essential spares list, and owning two, one at home and one in the bag, remains the settled arrangement.

For charging and syncing Lightning devices from the USB-A ports the world already has, the genuine Apple 1 metre cable (MXLY2ZM/A) is the standard spare to own.