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, ...

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 ...

Apple is finally selling a dongle that lets users charge their iPhone while listening to music through wired headphones. The dongle, which has been a year in the making, replaces previous inelegant ...

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 ...

A thing can be handy and appalling at the same time. And if you don't believe me, check out the Uncourage adapter for carrying your iPhone headphone dongle on your keychain, which fills me with an ...

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 ...

If you've got an iPhone 7, you're probably pretty pleased with yourself. What you're probably less pleased about is the removal of the 3.5mm headphone port. While Apple has bundled a Lightning to ...

Following is a transcript of the video: Apple has a dongle problem. The MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPhone, and iPad use just two types of ports. Remember 30-pin? Now we have Lightning. Remember USB-A?

Apple’s iPhone launch event yesterday was so full of good news that the company apparently couldn’t find the time to disclose a couple of less happy developments in its product range. First, the three ...