Posts from this author 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, ...

Last year's Belkin Rockstar dongle was a lifesaver for iPhone 7 owners who wanted to charge their device while doing just about anything else, but it had a problem: with two Lightning ports, you still ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you own an iPhone 7, you now know the pains of having to carry around a dongle. The thing about dongles is they’re terribly easy to use. So instead having to worry if you brought your adapter today ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...

With Apple getting rid of the iPhone 7 headphone jack recently, there's a strong chance you're still trying to recover by drinking whiskey in a dark corner. In order to stave off such episodes, though ...

Photo: Buster Hein/Cult of Mac The iPhone 7 may not include a 3.5mm headphone jack, but Apple’s going to make sure your old headphones aren’t immediately obsolete by including an adapter with the new ...