Iphone X Original Charger Vs Fake

Tips to identify fake vs genuine apple charger for iphone counterfeit or duplicate chargers detect.

Iphone x original charger vs fake. Apple s charger is pictured on the left. Well that s a good question but just yesterday there was a post from a user whose apparently fake cube went up in flames after destroying his iphone 6. In this video i show you how to tell if these are real or fake lightning cables. A fake apple lightning cable is a replica of the apple s oem lightning to usb cable.

They seem pretty similar but take a closer look. Apple made headlines recently when it sued an amazon seller over fake lightning cables. There are lots of fake cable chargers out there for the iphone ipad and ipod. It has a slightly shorter usb.

Another very important software difference between the original and the fake iphone is that if you open the app store app on the fake iphone it will open a google play instead of app store. One is a fake charger and the other is an apple original. One last problem you can encounter if you have a fake charge is the end of the charger falling off. This is going to be caused by your iphone charger short circuiting at the end of the cable that connects to your iphone and this can cause the cable to overheat.

Watch the 2 videos i posted about teardowns of fake usb adapters. Normally you will see signal strength bar indicator on the phone. How to identify an apple original or mfi lightning cable and why this matters. The fake chargers can be fairly dangerous as highlighted by the tragic story of a chinese woman who was electrocuted by a counterfeit charger while charging her iphone last year following up his look at the difference between real and counterfeit iphone chargers ken shirriff has taken to his blog via daring fireball to explore the differences between the real and fake iphone chargers he.

As you can see in this photo there are two chargers displayed. Fake does not mean it won t work but as long as it works and the output is what the device wants to see it should be ok. This will help you prevent the. If you use one these fake cables your device may be at harm so we have compiled differently from which you can identify fake vs original apple lightning cable.

This was a built in iphone app to check network signal strength.