A number of iPhone and iPad homeowners have complained that Apple’s newest cell software program updates, iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5, render their gadgets incompatible with Apple’s Lightning to USB 3 Digital camera Adapter.
The accent, which prices $39 from Apple’s retailer (or £45 from the U.Okay. retailer) was designed with older Lightning iPad Professional fashions in thoughts, enabling homeowners to switch images from a digital digicam to their pill for enhancing and sharing; more moderen iPads are geared up with USB-C ports and consequently have much less want for an adapter. Nevertheless it’s appropriate, in concept, with just about any Lightning iPhone or iPad, going again all the way in which to the iPhone 5 from 2012 and the unique iPad mini.
I say “in concept” as a result of, in accordance with MacRumors, numerous homeowners are presently discovering that in apply the accent solely works with iPhones and iPads that haven’t but put in the model 16.5 editions of their respective working programs. The problem, particularly, seems associated to charging: as a result of the adapter has each feminine USB-A and feminine Lightning ports, it needs to be potential to cost the iPad or iPhone whereas it’s related to a different system by way of the USB-A port. If the system has iOS 16.5, nevertheless, charging not works, and this in flip appears to trigger wider points with speaking between the related gadgets. A “attracts an excessive amount of energy” error message has been reported by a number of customers on Reddit and Apple’s assist boards.
“This needs to be a difficulty with iOS 16.5, and I hope it’s resolved shortly,” commented the Apple assist person fifanatic. “Looks like a really dangerous search for an official Apple accent to be rendered inoperable by a step replace of iOS.”
It’s clearly a software program challenge, too. One person on the MacRumors boards stories testing with a number of adapters and a number of USB cables, and additional notes that the adapter labored advantageous with different gadgets nonetheless on iOS 16.4.1.
What’s extra, it’s not but clear that the bug is proscribed to this adapter. “My Lighting to HDMI adapter additionally died after this replace,” complains the Redditor d1v1d38Yz3r0. One other MacRumors discussion board person, nevertheless, stories that their Lightning to VGA Adapter works advantageous with iOS 16.5 gadgets. I examined with a 2022 iPad Air working iPadOS 16.5 and the HDMI adapter, and that setup labored advantageous.
iOS 16.5 is a minor replace when it comes to options (though it does introduce 21 new emoji), nevertheless it does patch a number of important vulnerabilities. For that reason, we advise in opposition to holding off on the replace till Apple patches this bug, until use of the Lightning to USB 3 Digital camera Adapter (and charging whereas doing so) is totally important to your workflow. Apple will presumably roll out a repair within the close to future: as MacRumors notes, this might kind the idea for a stopgap iOS 16.5.1 replace, as iOS 16.6 is just simply on its first beta and is probably going some weeks from launch.
