Interesting. I occasionally get this with a cheap cable plugged into a cigarette lighter adapter, and had assumed it was the cable, but now I wonder if it's condensation from a cable left in the car in winter.

My iPhone's never used an Apple branded charger. Gotta start them off young, so they have the right lifelong expectations.

The "U" in USB stands for "Universal."

That's giving a lot of credit to carriers' prioritization. Probably simpler to say that streaming is prioritized below browsing traffic, and most speed tests use TCP (like web browsing), not UDP (like most streaming).

Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by laziness.

Think seriously about using iCloud. Any service that can be recovered using recovery questions is only as secure as the answers to those questions.

NYT published an article a couple years ago where a (white hat) hacker looked up the reporter's information (e.g. LinkedIn, high school graduation, ship to address in their public Amazon wish list, etc.), called the "I forgot my password" line, recovered their iCloud account, and remotely locked their Mac and iPhone during the interview.

That's not knocking Apple; I'd imagine there's a Google equivalent. As u/XtremePhotoDesign suggests, it's probably wise to not use the same credential trust for answering a text in a bar and for bank transfers.

I've never wanted to send a voice memo. I've never correctly guessed which button was voice typing. Granted, I use iMessage like 5x a year.

Would love a proper fix for this as well. My solution was to delete Apple Music and all audio files on the phone. We always laugh when my wife's phone plays some Foo Fighters mp3 every time she plugs in, but it's super annoying. The breaking point for me was when it burned my entire monthly data plan streaming Apple Music. The car's speakers were playing the radio, so we didn't even know it was happening.

Doesn't happen in my car (Hyundai) over Bluetooth, only USB.