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Sorry, new iPhones don’t come with the headphone dongle
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Fresh from the “you gotta be kidding me!” department: the new iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR don’t have headphone jacks, and they don’t even come with a 3.5mm-to-lightning dongle.
Yes, that goes even for the nearly-$1,500 512GB iPhone XS Max.
That means if you want to use wired headphones or any other gadget that has a 3.5mm plug with your iPhone, you’ll have to buy the dongle separately, for $9.
I’ve lived in dongle hell for a year now, with the iPhone X as my main phone and a 2017 MacBook Pro as my main computer, and I can tell you that dongles are still must-have items. And that’s even if you primarily use wireless headphones. I literally used the headphone dongle today, to plug my iPhone X into a music player at the gym — just because your iPhone is up to date doesn’t mean the rest of the world is.
The new iPhones only come with the following items:
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The iPhone itself (phew)
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EarPods that connect via the Lightning port
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Charging cable
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USB charger
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Documentation
Hopefully Apple keeps the charger in the box next year.
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