Why your USB-C device isn’t charging – and the simple fixes I always rely on

I’ve probably made this reference once too often, but there’s a joke that despite what the acronym stands for, USB isn’t very universal. There have been many different connector types over the years, not to mention many different speeds, which can leave people scrambling for different cables, or wondering why a file transfer seems to be taking forever. It’s better than what came before, or than Apple’s defunct Lightning format, but that’s not saying much.