According to IT House news, idropnews reported that Apple will continue to have lightning interfaces in its flagship phone iPhone14 Pro series this year, until the presence of an interfaceless iPhone that transmits data wirelessly by MagSafe. That is to say, the iPhone 14 series will not be replaced by a unified type-C interface.
In addition, @ShrimpApplePro also said that Apple will retain its proprietary Lightning interface standard on the iPhone 14 series and release related CAD blueprints.
Apple's Lightning Port was first introduced on the 2012 iPhone 5, 10 years old, and has hardly improved since its launch. And at present, Lightning's transfer speed is only the level of USB 2.0, and the transfer speed is several generations worse than type-C. Sometimes you use your Apple phone to shoot a one-minute ProRes4K video will produce 6GB of files, 10 minutes of video volume will reach 60GB, if you use the current Lightning to transfer files to the PC side when you find that it takes hours to go crazy, if you switch to Android type-C, you only need dozens of minutes to complete.
However, according to iDropnews, although Apple's iPhone 14 series will still use Lightning this year, their sources indicate that Apple is supporting USB 3.0 (protocol) for the iPhone 14 Pro (series), when you can get faster wired transmission speeds even if you connect with the Lightning interface.
But it is worth mentioning that for this USB 3.0 rate, people familiar with the matter said that it is impossible to confirm whether this feature will appear on the two lower-end models of iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max, after all, Apple can do this to strengthen the pro series.
As for why Apple did not replace the use of type-C, foreign media pointed out that it was a matter of interest.
These are Apple's normal operations, after all, Apple with this small exclusive interface can charge a lot of authorized lightning products, not limited to data cables, dongles, brackets, etc., since 2012 launched to now has been 10 years, these years Apple does not know how much money has been made from these licenses, so Apple does not want to terminate the revenue.
iDropnews also said that they don't think Apple's iPhone 15 Pro is expected to change, but the iPhone 16 Pro may become the first interfaceless iPhone true wireless phone.
It can be seen that even if Apple launches a true wireless mobile phone without an interface, it will not use type-C, and what is wrong with type-C.