A cradle with a vertical plug (Apple 8-pin Lightning or Apple 30-pin) onto which an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is docked to play music and/or to charge the unit. The dock is built into self ...

Apple has not only announced the new iPhone 16e with a USB-C port and also discontinued the iPhone 14, the final Lightning ... replacement to the bulky 30-pin dock connector.

The Apple device contains the socket, and the cable or docking station has the plug. In 2012, the original 30-pin analog+digital interface was replaced with the 8-pin all-digital Lightning connector.