where do I plug in my headphones to my MacBook pro

The posts from IdrisSeabright and me are a comment on the hyperbole in your post, not the content. It is far from "insanely frustrating" - it is a minor inconvenience, and, at least to me, it isn't even that. I'm sure everyone has 3.5 mm earphones kicking around - I have at least a dozen -, and even if you don't, they are under $10 from Radio Shack, Amazon, and many other retailers. I don't want to use my iPhone headset with either of my MacBooks or my iMac; they each have their own standard headset with a 3.5 mm plug, that they had long before the iPhone 7 came out. And I don't see the point of adding yet another adapter that will cost good money (and likely be at least as bulky as a wired headset) when I already have a solution that has worked for years.

this is a mac forum...isn't first world inherent, this is merely an observation on products that should have been better integrated to all apple devices, I should have known better than to post

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

Scroll down to "Audio".

yeah, this is insanely frustrating...carrying around the lightening adapter that came with the iPhone, maybe even lugging another set of headphones with a traditional jack, or being forced to buy bluetooth headphones for ease across all devices. 😟

boulevardbrew wrote:

yeah, this is insanely frustrating...carrying around the lightening adapter that came with the iPhone, maybe even lugging another set of headphones with a traditional jack, or being forced to buy bluetooth headphones for ease across all devices. 😟

Wow, yeah, that sounds very rough.

Hello Lindzi Mapplebeckpalmer,

The headphone jack is here:

You will not be able to use the headphones that came with the iPhone 7 with your Mac.

A truly tragic First World Problem.

Agreed with boulevard brew. Good example of how the claws come out when any utterance of displeasure is made for the almighty glowing fruit.

So if you buy a new Mac for a qualified US college student, they will give you set of wireless Beats for free.