[witheld]

I switched from Android to to iPhone SE- mostly as a matter of longevity and relatively cheap repair prices.

Lighting is not better, it slides out more easily, it’s connections are less consistent (if you’re using a headphone adapter you will get disconnects), and it just doesn’t feel as good.

[mls-pl]

Physically Lightning is better - way more robust and resistant to potential damage. There's literally no way you damage connector on normal daily usage.

[witheld]

I don’t damage my ports I don’t have a frame of reference for them not being robust.

I do know that I can’t really use headphones with my iPhone because the experience blows because they disconnect. I do know that often my phone isn’t charged because the connection from the charger wasn’t good. C type is a better experience and the only time I’ve had a defective or damaged C port was on a sub $100 BLU phone

[schrodinger]

Try taking a toothpick and scraping in the inside of the lightning port. In my experience when the connection gets flakey its pocket lint building up.

[lillecarl]

Be careful not to crape the walls too hard though, that could damage the clamping pins that connect to the cable. Only go inwards.

[lillecarl]

This is misinformation, the USB-C connector design is more robust than the lightning port. The reason there's a "tab" in the middle of the phone connector is so that the cable can grasp onto it with spring-loaded contact areas. In the lightning connector the spring-loaded pins are in the phone instead of in the cable, these spring loaded things are what breaks in the connector (if it isn't just full of lint which you can get out). The reason why it appears the lightning connector is better is because Apple manufacturers high-quality devices.

Lightning is designed to wear out the contact, USB-C is designed to wear out the cable.