At times when you plug your iphone to a lightning charger cable a pop up will appear on the screen saying this cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iphone.
Not certified ipad cable.
The lightning connector might fall off get very hot or not fit your device properly.
When lightning cables don t fit these criteria they may conduct electricity incorrectly or accumulate heat.
These cables generally aren t mfi certified which means they have conformed to apple s standards of a high quality lightning cable.
Any mfi certified lightning cable should support up to 12 w of charging power or up to 18 w if it s a usb c to lightning cable and usb 2 0 data transfer rates up to 480 mbps.
That s why the message warns this cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iphone or ipad.
The cable on the right isn t.
They may wiggle inside an iphone or ipad s charging port.
Unlike usb cables all lightning cables need to be identical.
This cable or accessory is not certified and may not work reliably with this iphone is a common message for apple owners ever since the new firmware version apple released with ios 7 once a iphone 5 users installed the latest ios 7 on their smartphone and started plugged in a fake apple usb charger they saw a message this cable or accessory is not certified or may not work reliably with.
Certified third party accessories have the mfi badge on their packaging.
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Your iphone or ipad has been working just fine but now you can t plug your lightning cable into it and get the phone to charge.
You might be unable to sync or charge your iphone or ipad with the cable too.
The message could be an error.
We get asked about this a lot.
An apple lightning to usb cable has designed by apple in california and either assembled in china assembled in vietnam or indústria brasileira on the cable about seven inches from the usb connector.
The lightning cable on the left is mfi certified.
Before blaming the poor quality of the accessory or looking down at your mfi certified cable or throwing it away in a fit of anger you should.
Since these cables are lower quality they can sometimes overheat and damage the internal components of your ipad.
Charge and sync up your ipad.
You ll know a cable is damaged or not mfi certified when your iphone ipad or ipod says.