“Is the female side the lighting connection and the male side usb c? It's hard to tell from the picture.”

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• Yes, the male is to plug into a USB-C. If you can see the attached photos, I'm using this to allow me to use my old workhorse Apple Thunderbolt Display with my 2018 Mac Mini--I plugged the monitor into the lightning (female) side of the adapter, and the USB-C (male) side of the adapter into the Mini. It is a really solid, secure connection. Although Mac's adapters tend to be on the spendy side, they are extremely well made.

  Answered by LadyDoc 5 years ago

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• The male side is Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) and will only work with Thunderbolt 3 ports. The female side is Thunderbolt 2, which is the same port as Mini-DisplayPort but is only for use with Thunderbolt 2 devices. See here for more info - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207266

  Answered by Seth 5 years ago

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• Yes. The USB-C (Thunderbolt 3) is male and the Thunderbolt 2 side is female.

  Answered by terrywhitaker 5 years ago

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