While most smartphones nowadays include a USB-C port for charging, Apple has stuck with its trusty lightning port for the longest time. Although the Cupertino giant has switched to USB-C on its iPad lineup, it still offers a lightning port on the iPhone models. However, an engineering student has used his skills to put a USB-C port on his iPhone X to make the world’s first USB-C iPhone.
Following the research, the engineer reverse-engineered the entire C94 board, which is a circuit present on MFi-certified cables available in the market. Pillonel removed the female lightning port and soldered wires straight to the bare C94 circuit board. Following this, he spent months trying to fit the whole board into his iPhone model without losing any of its functionalities.
