Are apple charging cables defective?

First you have to have the receipt to get a warranty replacementand I don't save receipts for $20 purchases. How do you think wasting every ones time with it doesn't happen to me so it must be you is in any way helpful or constructive. It is amazing how support staff wants to blame the customer first.

The cables are lousy pure and simple even when purchased from the Apple Store. There is something in the design that makes them fail early.

Rdterrel wrote:

First you have to have the receipt to get a warranty replacementand I don't save receipts for $20 purchases.

Apple has a record of your purchases and it's really easy for them to look it up. If you've been purchasing elsewhere, then they're not Apple cables and this entire thread is bogus.

I don't want replacement cables. I want great quality cables from the Apple Store. The cables should last as long as the IPAD. And saying you never had the replace a cable is like me saying I went swimming and didn't drown so no one has ever drowned.

Rdterrel wrote:

I don't want replacement cables. I want great quality cables from the Apple Store. The cables should last as long as the IPAD. And saying you never had the replace a cable is like me saying I went swimming and didn't drown so no one has ever drowned.

Strange that, in all my years in this forum, you are the first and, so far, the only poster to complain about Apple cable quality.

PegasusTenma wrote:

I've never had to change mine.

I had to change one that got eaten by a vacuum cleaner.

universe369 wrote:

I keep doing internet searches on the problem and I keep getting told that I'm getting knock off cables.

Yes, of course, if it's on the Internet, it must be true.

Calling my feedback bogus is highly unprofessional.

Rdterrel wrote:

Calling my feedback bogus is highly unprofessional.

Why is an accurate statement highly unprofessional?

Rdterrel wrote:

Calling my feedback bogus is highly unprofessional.

Can one be unprofessional if one is retired?

This is a user-to-user forum.

Why in the world do you keep buying cables? They come with a 1 year warranty. The same as the phone.

Of the 2 iPhone 5's and 2 iPad Minis we have, that's 4 lightning cables out of the box, and 2 additional lightning cables purchased so that we have them in the cars, office, etc. The only one that failed was one that was chewed to death by one of the cats.

You must be doing something wrong with the cables. I've never had to change mines. And besides, if they do come defective, (which I doubt 20 are) they have a guarantee, so you don't have to keep buying them.

The other thing might be that there's something wrong with the sockets in your home.

You definitely need to examine how you are handling the cables. With all of the iOS devices I have owned over the years, both 30 pin and lightening - I've only had to replace one. And I damaged it by allowing it to get caught in a zipper on my brief case. The lightening cables i now own are original to the devices and get used daily. Still look brand new and work perfectly.

You are generalizing a bit. No one of all the people I know with iPhones has had to change their cables at all.

There has to be an issue on your side. They just stop charging? Are you using the charger provided with the phones?

Well, I'll put it this way: My personal experience with the cables I have already stated; I know at least 50 family, friends and colleges using iOS devices (many ore than one); and I am pretty active on this forum and have substantial contact with long-term users here. No one is reporting a "burn-out" issue with the cables reported (not one). [whatever "burn out" means]

So back to my original comment: you need to examine the common factor in all of these cable failures.