Inaccurate claim RE: Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) Cable

I can confirm that currently the Apple USB-C charging cable does not work in Target Disk Mode even though the Apple article you reference clearly says it will work as I tried to use it the other day. I don't know if this is a recent failure due to a more recent firmware update since I don't recall if I ever used the charging cable successfully to access another Mac in Target Disk Mode.

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Do you mean the Charge-ONLY cable that shipped in the box with your Power adapter? That cable has only charge conductors and data to support USB-2 slow speed, so it can handle no more than a keyboard. Apple never represented that cable as anything else.

Detailed technical expertise is uneven, and varies WIDELY between associates.

When Apple spends extra time for training of folks in the Apple Store, they spend that time on training about how to be nicer to customers like you, Not on technical issues.

Ok hi everyone if there’s something I could just add in here real quick not specifically related to the charge cable but worth your while to know nonetheless. One time not only did I use USBC to USBC little black cables that come with the 500GB, 1TB, or 2TB USBC LaCie Mobile SSD that are sold at the Apple Store and all of you own too many of. The cables have a little USB official logo that looks like a pitchfork and it had a tiny little number 10 next to it. I forgot what each of those mean but I think that’s like USB 3.1 or something. Moving on, I not only connected my MacBook Air to my 27” intel iMac via Targeted Disk Mode but I daisy chained in a second LaCie Mobile 1TB USBC SSD to the one remaining USBC port on my MacBook Air. It worked but you had to work fast because power was not being delivered and none ports left over after one was used to go to the iMac and the only other remaining port going to the LaCie Mobile USBC SSD. The cables got hot and were starting to frighten me somewhat I mean you would understand if you met me I’m like the smartest person you ever saw that didn’t have a clue what they were doing. I have a pro cable now the black one and freaking love it sometimes I’ll walk over to my neighbor’s apartments with it slung around my neck or perhaps wear it low around the shoulders like a shall. Really that cable is fun to just handle when you’re watching TV or whatever if you need something to play with or mess with when you’re just enjoying your leisure time.

Your cable shows a ThunderBolt Icon on each end, indicating it is a full ThunderBolt cable.

NOT an imposter like that charge-ONLY cable.