You know what my least favorite game is? It's "find the one spare ratty lightning cable in the house before kiddo's tablet runs out of battery."After upgrading all of our phones and devices to ones that charge with USB-C, I made the horrible mistake of purging the many, many lightning cables that were cluttering my drawers and closets. Then I bought my kid an ipad...which had a lightning connector. Okay that's fine, I still have a COUPLE cables around.But then you realize you need a bedroom cable, one for each car, one for travel, one in the playroom, and they either give out or get lost or get moved, and then you have to swap out your USB-C cable for the lightning one, and then later you plug in your phone for several hours before realizing it didn't charge because you unplugged it to charge that freakin' ipad....Anyway, got these. Now I just have them around to plug into the ipad instead of hunting down cables of the right type and length. They work, no fuss. I might buy a couple more packs.