AreMe 2-in-1 USB C to USB 3.2 Adapter with 100W Charging Port, Thunderbolt 4/3 OTG Converter for Rog Ally, Steam Deck, Quest 2, iPhone 15 Series, iPad, MacBook and More Type C Device - Grey

An excellent adapter and accessory to allow using an external storage device while charging at the same time. Additionally, this adapter will even handle external storage that requires additional power from the USB port. However, there's no instructions how to do this properly. I had to trial-n-error to find out that when attaching a power demanding storage device, you must also attach a charger to the power port of the adapter. In fact, I find it best to plug things in this order: 1) external power storage to adapter, 2) charger to adapter, then 3) adapter to phone.

Works to get around the CarPlay requirements if you hook a mic to it

This is great. Does what it says it will do. Highly recommend.

This thing is straight garbage, just wanted to plug this into my tablet so I could charge it and use a good mouse for playing my favorite game, you have to fidget for 30 minutes or so to get it to connect both the 3.0 input and the PD port... Even then, after 15 minutes it just stops charging altogether and the tablet burns through battery because it ends up supplying power to the hub itself... DO NOT BUY.

I bought a couple of these adapters since I recently switched to a tablet-style laptop with only two USB-C ports for connectivity. The original adapter I bought (the middle one in the comparison pictures) disconnected the USB-A port when the power was disconnected since it didn't have a feature known as "Fast Role Swap". I was hoping this adapter would support that feature, but unfortunately it does not. On my phone when I have a jump drive and power connected, if I disconnect the power the jump drive is temporarily disconnected. I was very concerned about this problem initially, but I think you should be okay as long as you get used to ejecting or unmounting (depending on your device) a connected jump drive before disconnecting the power. Since these adapters seem to essentially reset when the external power is disconnected, your jump drive should automatically reconnect. First, the good: the overall build quality seems good with the metal casing seeming fairly sturdy, I like the little indicator light that turns on when it is powered, and my higher-power 65W laptop does not show a low-power notification when using this so it seems to get the advertised 100W. Besides those pluses, I found this adapter had the most issues and fewest features. In addition to not supporting Fast Role Swap, the USB-C female port only supports power input - you cannot charge your phone when the adapter is connected to your computer or transfer data over the port. The USB-C parts of the jump drive are also for some reason very close to the center, which means if you want to use this device on a more traditional laptop, it will likely block nearby USB-C ports - so you're essentially converting 2 USB-C ports to one limited USB-C port (only power input) and one USB-A port instead of always getting two ports for only one USB-C port. Also, while the adapter correctly connected data over the USB-A port and power over the USB-C port on both my Samsung phone and older Samsung laptop, on my ASUS tablet-style laptop, the drive disconnected and did not reappear when I connected the power. So the adapter was effectively useless on my new ASUS besides converting USB-A to USB-C when I didn't have power connected, since it wouldn't let me use both ports at once. If you're buying this to only use or primarily use with a phone, this adapter might be worth getting (as long as you always make sure to unmount any jump drives or hard drives before disconnecting power). However, even though this is the cheapest, I find the lack of functionality makes this the worst value if you plan to use this with anything besides a phone. I would recommend to spend a little more and get one of MOGOOD's USB-C adapters or hubs, which are the only ones I've found on Amazon that puts the USB-C plugs at the top of the device and so don't block nearby ports.

Nice that it is labeled. So it a week or 2, you will know that it is “USB 3.2 10Gbps.” It is a good size. The LED power indicator is a nice feature. However, if you have purchased dongles to use with your USB-C device, then they probably have a USB-C plug, not a USB-A. So to use this, you may also need a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Might have been more useful if it had had a second USB-C port, instead of USB-A. Also, have NOT tested this on a Thunderbolt device. Have discovered that lots of claimed Thunderbolt devices are just USB-C only.

Works awesome, a must have..

The perfect accessory to power the device (MacBook or Phone) when a USB device is connected at the same time... and not too big.