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Tom Pritchard

Apple Vision Pro battery lets you remove the charging cable — and it's the mother of all Lightning connectors

Apple Vision Pro charging cable and battery.

The Apple Vision Pro is launching soon alongside a brand new kind of wired battery to keep it running. It’s far from an ideal design, but now that the first Apple Vision Pro headsets are out in the world we’ve learned some new details about that particularly annoying design feature. Some of it’s good, and some of it’s bad.

The good news is that the wire connecting the Vision Pro can be removed from the battery pack, with the aid of a basic paper clip or SIM removal tool. However, the cable appears to be another proprietary Apple cable that looks like a chunky version of the Lightning connector.

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