In 2016, Apple completely axed the headphone jacks on the iPhone 7 in favor of wireless headphones. To help ease customers’ concerns with this transition in technology, the company included free ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

Hey, did you hear? The iPhone 7 doesn't have a headphone jack! Sure, Apple included a Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter in the box, but that doesn't help when you want to charge your phone and listen to ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Every iPhone 7 ships with a headphone adapter in the box, as it should. The Apple-designed dongle looks exactly like you'd expect: white, simple, and drawn up in three minutes by the most recent ...

Remember the time Apple gave the iPhone a new connector and you had to buy a dongle to use all your old accessories? It’s happening again. But worse. Apple’s new Macbook has a do-everything USB type-C ...

Unless Apple has a last-minute change of heart, the iPhone 7 will ship this coming September without a traditional 3.5mm headphone jack. And given how reliable and universal the tried and true ...

Wireless Apple CarPlay used to be a luxury feature reserved for the latest dashboards, but a new wave of plug-and-play ...

Whether it's Lightning dongles for the iPhone 7 or USB-C dongles for the latest Android phones and Windows laptops, these small, overpriced pieces of plastic push our old tech accessories into the ...