Belkin Lightning to USB-A Cable 1m (Black)

Belkin USB-A To Lightning Cable, 1 Metre — Black

This Belkin cable is a 1 metre lead with a Lightning connector at one end and a USB-A connector at the other, in a black finish. It is the everyday charge and sync cable for an Apple device with a Lightning port, used with the USB-A chargers, computer ports and power banks that are already in most homes and offices. One metre is the practical length for the places a cable like this actually lives: a bedside table, a desk, a car console or a travel bag, where a longer lead would coil and tangle and a shorter one would not reach.

Key features

• Lightning connector for Apple devices with a Lightning port
• USB-A connector for standard chargers, computers and power banks
• 1 metre length for desks, bedsides and travel
• Black finish
• MFi certified, as stated for this listing
• For charging and for syncing with a computer

About MFi and compatibility

Lightning is Apple’s connector, and accessories made for it sit under Apple’s MFi licensing programme; this listing states MFi certification for this cable. What matters in daily use is simpler: the Lightning plug fits the port on compatible iPhones, iPads and accessories such as AirPods cases and the Magic accessories that still use Lightning, and the USB-A plug fits the chargers, computers and power banks most people already own. A device with a USB-C port needs a different cable — check the socket on the device, not the badge on the box, before ordering.

One metre, on purpose

Cable length sounds like a detail until the wrong one is in use. A metre reaches from a wall socket to a bedside table, from a desktop charger to the phone in your hand, and across a car’s centre console, without leaving loops of spare cable to coil, trap in drawers or run over with a chair. In a travel bag it is the length that covers hotel desks and airport charging points alike. Longer versions of this cable exist for fixed runs behind furniture; this 1 metre version is the personal one, sized for the places a phone actually gets charged, and short enough that it packs without tangling itself around everything else in the bag.

Everyday use

A cable like this earns its place by being unremarkable: it charges the phone overnight, tops up a tablet at a desk, syncs or backs up to a computer when needed, and travels in a bag as the spare that means a forgotten cable is never a problem. Route it away from chair wheels, drawer edges and tight bends at the connector, since cables fail at the strain points long before they wear out along their length. Kept reasonably, a branded cable of this type is a fit-and-forget accessory.

This is the black 1 metre version of Belkin’s USB-A to Lightning cable: the right connectors, a sensible length, and a finish that matches the setup it joins.