Reviews for Lightning to 30-pin Adapter

I bought one of these connectors for use with my scosche fm transmitter in my car. The adapter allows the transmitter to play music and show the song title properly, however it does not charge my iPhone 5... Tried it with my sylvania alarm clock and it works fine (not defective) I'm disappointed the apple would change connectors and then not stock them for 2 months after releasing a product, charge this much for a connector and have it only work with some products. Looks like apple cost me even more cash now that I have to buy a new fm transmitter. The best part of apple is dead...

After two weeks this adaptor stopped working and appears to have a burned out the connectors on one side. Poor quality.

My 7th generation iPod Nano has the lightning connector on the bottom right, so if you use this adapter, it's not centered beneath the Nano, making it impossible to use in my existing dock.

Ive tested this with a 3 standard iphone cables, plugged into my imac, a dock, the wall adapter and my VW car adapter, not one supplies it with power...

I bought lighting adapter today to use my old car changer adapter of iPhone 4s unfortunately it would not charge your iPhone if you your phone has any bumper cover. Yes, it will only work only if you iPhone doesn't have a cover. I have to return mine tomorrow because it is useless.

Apple show warn customer that this would only work iPhone with no bumper cover.

Overpriced gadget adapter! This adapter works as stated. I wanted it so I could continue to use my iHome Alarm Clock/Radio (love to wake up to a streaming radio station). It works with the audio, charging, and all other commands. It's built really well, just severely over priced. If half the price I would give it 5 stars and buy more!

The adapter works, but only if you don't have a case on. The lightning adapter part is too short to fit into most cases on iPhone, therefore making it useless unless you want to remove your case each time you want to charge/sync. Poorly designed, which is unusual for Apple.

Suggest you make sure this works for your connection needs before you drop $30 on it.
OK - first, the design is terrible; I bought a very small protective case (the Speck CandyShell Grip - a great case BTW) for the IPhone 5; it has a large opening for the connector but the lightning pin isn't long enough to fit all the way into the phone. Just a bad design from Apple.
But more troubling is that cords / connections / accessories that work with our other ipods and iphones (v4) don't all work the same with this connector attached to an iPhone 5. Chargers don't charge the iphone 5...connectivity to my car's iPhone connector (Nissan Maxima) doesn't work the same as the iPhone 4 and iPods (now it won't charge the iPhone 5, music controls don't work properly, etc.). Using this connector for the iPhone 5 connecting to a Bose Soundstation results in a very wobbly connection - it lost connection to the Bose frequently, sound cut out, and the left speaker never worked (this Bose still works great with all other ipods, ipod touches and iphone 4's (and they are also running ios 6). I tested this connected to my Pioneer Receiver (which has an iPod connection builtin) - this seemed to work perfect. Still have to test the car connection for our Honda Pilot and Honda Fit.

Overall - Caveat Emptor!!!!!!

Since everyone uses a case, I'm a bit baffled why this adapter was built the way it was. The pin connector inst long enough to fit into the phone with a case on. Complete lack of forethought by whomever built this and approved it for the product.

Bottom line, don't waste your money. On a side note, the 30 PIN connector to Lightning cable isn't much better. Still thicker than the USB one and wont fit most cases. Departments over there should communicate better and make things standard sizes.