Way to mechanically apply pressure to Lightning connector?

[Wolfpup]

My iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6s both have the same charging problem now... they won’t charge without fairly significant upward pressure applied on the (garbage) Lightning connector. (And no, new cables don’t help, nor did cleaning the port with alcohol and toothpicks).

Are there any ideas for how to mechanicaly apply constant pressure to the port, short of hurting my hand/wrist? I just can’t think how to do it, since something would have to apply pressure one direction while attached to the iPad itself.
(still hoping Apple gets rid of this garbage port some day...)

 

[steve knight]

did you check for fuzz in the port? in my case it was sawdust.

 

[Wolfpup]

did you check for fuzz in the port? in my case it was sawdust.

yeah. I’ve never gotten anything out of a lightning connector before (100% failure rate since 2013...) including nothin from my current iPhone, but did get some stuff out of my iPad’s connector. Didn’t improve anything though.