When I get my new iPhone 7, with the included Lightning EarPods, how will I be able to connect them to my brand new MacBook with Retina display?
Is there an adapter that converts USB-C to Lightning, or the 3.5mm headphone jack to Lightning?
@deggie,
You have demonstrably the most unhelpful posts in this whole thread. And now you've added condescension to your list of accomplishments. If only I had an "Unhelpful" button to click in response to your post.
I have no interest in debating my needs, or your warped and hyperbolic rhetoric with you. Much of what you state as fact is truly baseless conjecture and opinion. You miss the point, are rude, judgmental, obtuse, and counter-productive, not to mention frequently wrong.
I'll wish you a good day, as I will not be conversing further with you and giving you a sounding board on which to exercise your unfortunate soapboxing.
Apple do not have total control over the Lightning technology (as witnessed by the various 3rd parties that make use of it) If enough people want it an adaptor is likely.
Woodwyn wrote:
@deggie,
You have demonstrably the most unhelpful posts in this whole thread. And now you've added condescension to your list of accomplishments. If only I had an "Unhelpful" button to click in response to your post.
I have no interest in debating my needs, or your warped and hyperbolic rhetoric with you. Much of what you state as fact is truly baseless conjecture and opinion. You miss the point, are rude, judgmental, obtuse, and counter-productive, not to mention frequently wrong.
I'll wish you a good day, as I will not be conversing further with you and giving you a sounding board on which to exercise your unfortunate soapboxing.
Why is it people can't accept being disagreed with and instead resort to ad hominem attacks? deggie has been unfailingly civil. He has demonstrated on more than one occasion the ability to be strongly disagreed with and maintain his good humor.
Because they are a 'word that I must not use'?
What about this:
Headphones > Female Lighting to USB > USB 2
https://www.allputer.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2399
Would a computer recognize headphones connected via USB?
I find it irritating that I have a pair of headphones that only work with a single device, when I have several computers, and iPads that I'd like to use them with...
No, that would not work.
Because the purpose of this thread was to answer a question and he's not answering it.
I also have the same question. That's how I found this post. But I had to read through three pages of crap because someone decided to comment stupid stuff instead of answering.
It's also incredible to me that I can listen to my headphones on my iPhone or my iPad, but can't use them with my MacBook.
Incredible but True
Good find. However, given that Lightning almost assuredly outputs a proprietary signal on specific pins, it's unlikely a simple USB dongle will provide the necessary signal without custom drivers, either in Mac OSX, or the dongle itself. Still it might be worth a try in the event Sierra actually has such drivers buried in the software for future adapters.
Thanks for the link either way, I noticed they also have Apple Pencil Lightning-to-Lightning female adapters fro $9, which is more than Apple currently offers the general public without calling Support (not even sure what they charge).
Now that the other shoe has dropped -- the new MBP event -- and we know there is no Lightning port on it, I'm hopeful somebody is going to bring an adapter to market. I'd love to get a look at the current MFi specs to see if Apple is even permitting a female Lightning port to be used this way, now that they are finally allowing third parties to officially use it at all.
I can confirm this doesn't work. Would love to see a USB-A to female lightning adapter and a USB-C to female lightning adapter. So I could carry one pair of headphones and use my SINEs with the lightning cable on my Mac.
I have the same question, which was why I ended up here.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks it strange that Apple is selling a new type of headphone with one of its products, which it has been promoting as a superior product to the "old" 3.5mm jack headphone, and yet I can only use these wonderful new headphones with my iPhone 7, and not my MacBook Pro.
Since they bothered to produce a lightening to 3.5mm converter, would it have been too much to ask to also make a 3.5mm to lightening converter? I don't think so, but apparently we are in the minority!
Since they bothered to produce a lightening to 3.5mm converter,
Did you mean lightning?
Where did Apple promote their iPhone supplied EarPods with lightning connector as superior to the EarPods with the 3.5 connector? They are the same as last years model with a Lightning connector on the end instead of the old 3.5. They are thrown in with your iPhone to use with the iPhone, they really aren't designed to be your only set of earphones. Either wait for an adapter or buy a decent pair of headphones.
I think they said it was so they could make the phone thinner? I didn't say that the headphones themselves were better, but that the overall package (narrower phone plus using lightning socket for the headphones) was an improvement.
If I was going to need a second set of headphones for everything else, why bother shipping a set of headphones with the iPhone 7 at all? They could have just included the lightning to 3.5mm adapter and left it at that.
How Can I Use My Lightning Headphones With My New MacBook?
