This will let you charge off the wall without your old cable, but then you’ll be stuck juggling between charging your MacBook or your phone, which use different connectors. If this bothers you, you could ditch wall charging and only charge your phone from your MacBook, or you could throw out your old cable and plug your new cable into your MacBook charger block. Apple sells adapter cables that allow you to connect your phone directly to your laptop, with no dongles or mess to worry about, though you can always get a third party cable for cheaper on Amazon.īut there’s a catch-now you’ll have two charging cables, one for charging with your MacBook and one for charging from the wall. Click here to catch all the latest news from Apple's 'Hello again' event.The simplest solution is to ditch the old USB connector altogether and switch over to USB-C. Sometimes progress is confusing and painful. So is right, there's no way to plug in the EarPods that come with the iPhone 7 into the new MacBook Pro Oh, and those fancy new Lightning headphones that came with your iPhone 7? You might as well keep those out of your laptop bag. Additionally, you're finally going to have to break down and buy an SD reader, as it's been whisked away to the land of headphone jacks, USB 2 and the 30-pin connector. If you want to connect any of your legacy USB peripherals to your new MacBook Pro, you're going to need a dongle until you upgrade to Thunderbolt-happy items. Of course, the iPhone isn't the only device that'll require a dongle. Or drop $25 for a Lighting to Thunderbolt cable.

So iPhone 7 owners, in addition to your $9 headphone dongle, if you want a computer with a TouchBar, you're going to have to pony up an additional $19 for the Apple USB-C to USB to connect to your phone. Plus, Apple doesn't include the needed dongle in the box with the new MacBook Pros. Two flagship devices from a company that prides itself on its ecosystem won't connect to each other without a special converter. Sadly, your fancy new iPhone 7 won't directly connect to your new MacBook Pro. But while it's evolving its ports, it also just made every iPhone owner who wants one of these computers buy a new dongle. It did it with USB back in the '90s and removed the headphone jack on its phones because it wants everyone to go wireless. Of course, it's Apple's prerogative to continue to push its customers toward better standards. Today, Apple unveiled brand new MacBook Pros with a dynamic Touch Bar and a quick (albeit forced) migration to USB-3 (AKA Thunderbolt).

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