Stop buying cheap Chinese charging cables - they are damaging your device

This video is about the cheap Chinese charging cables that have flooded markets around the world. Specifically it focuses on USB C & Lightning Charging cables as they are the most widely used. Typically in the USA these cheap Chinese charging cables are sold on eBay, Amazon and through Temu more recently. These cables are advertised as being the same quality as genuine Apple charging cables or other name brand cables, such as Anker, Samsung and Belkin to name a few. Consumers are attracted to these cables due to their low cost and often they have a ridiculous amount of positive reviews. I demonstrate in this video that these cables are not the same quality, they are being made with cheaper materials, which results in premature failure and often times they cause damage to the device they were being used to charge. I have repaired thousands of Apple devices as well as Samsung devices that use USB-C charging ports and the number 1 cause of the damage to the charging port has been the use of these cheap cables. Let me be clear, I am not suggesting that products made in China are no good. What I am suggesting is that these inexpensive $5 no brand or Chinese brand cables claiming to be the same quality as name brand cables are no where near the same quality.

0:01 Intro: charging cables are not all the same
1:15 Looking at 3 lightning port charging cables
1:31 $5 Chinese cable easily damaged with spudger
1:45 Anker cable not damaged
1:55 Genuine Apple cable not damaged
2:08 Why steel density matters in a charge cable
2:50 How lightning charging cables break and damage the device
3:52 demonstrating how the cheap lightning port charge cables fail
5:45 the reason not to save money buying a cheap charging cable
6:50 metal is very malleable, a spudger can break it into pieces with little effort
7:35 Outro


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[mistaBorg]

i have like 7 cables for lightning and 20 usb c ones, they cost me either less than 2 dollars or were included in device boxes. none of them are even close to being scratched.
I have no idea where you buy these trash cables.

[Soundwave]

I had more issues with my OG lighting cable than some 5€ usb-c cable from amazon

[DerrickJolicoeur]

The problem with using money as the deciding factor is that nothing stops these cheap cables from being sold at higher prices in big box stores.

Cost doesn't matter, reputability matters. A reputable $5 cable is bound to be plenty capable.

[realgeorgewbush]

Stop buying devices with proprietary connectors LOL

[urgaynknowit]

Good video, thumbs up for no ai narration and a sub for the algorithm, rock on bud

[e_xtech]

huge advocate for quality cables! i get mad at my co-workers that buy the $15 gas station cables when they could have spent the same amount of money from a reputable brand and is infinitely better quality

[antipainK]

Way to go to find the worst cable you have and then conclude "all chinese cables are poorly made", while original cables are also from China...

[CustardDonut]

100 000's of repairs, you must be a very very busy guy.

[frostilver]

Never had this kind of problem. Probably because these kind of low quality cables aren't too flooded.

[deamooz]

I have a cable from IKEA and it's good lol

[DeadHawk]

I'd say that's more of an Apple problem. Like yeah that's a shitty cable for sure and is very cheap, but the weird locking mechanism is the problem.

[donchaput]

Stop hating on those poor Chinese kids. They have to start manufacturing something before advancing to making bigger garbage products

[typingcat]

5 dollars for a charging cable, what are you a millionaire? I pay $1 tops.

[nitramluap]

Gee... it's almost as thought Apple's MFI specifications & approvals are well thought out after all!?!

[Boxersteavee]

i prefer ugreen. I don't trust Anker anymore.

[bazzatron]

Another reason to ditch apple and their predatory proprietary connectors.