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I was prepared to put up with it.
So my iPhone was charging erratically. It was the only gadget that really annoyed me. Shouldn't everyone have at least one?
Yet after baring my experience at an Apple store in these pages -- a certified Genius had told me I was being too aggressive with my Lightning cable insertion into my iPhone 6[1] -- I received hundreds of emails from readers.
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Please, I'm new here. I had no idea you cared so much.
About iPhones, I mean.
Some readers said they'd had very similar problems to mine -- a phone that would charge with one Lightning cable, but not another. A phone that would sometimes charge and sometimes demur. A phone that reminded them that gadgets can be as mercurial as humans.
The majority of readers insisted my problem was a lint build-up from keeping it in my pocket. Many said they'd had to learn this for themselves from YouTube videos, rather than Apple Geniuses.
I'd omitted to mention in my original article that I regularly inspected the port and even sometimes used a wooden toothpick to dig out fluff.
Readers shared their own tools of the port-cleaning trade. Many favor an unspooled paper clip. Some use a sewing needle. (Wait, those are made of metal. Is that entirely wise?) Some, too, use a wooden toothpick or one of those plastic GUM Soft-Picks[3].
"It's just like using a Q-Tip in your ear," revealed one helpful reader.
There was only one thing for it. Go to a different Apple store. You see,