You Can't Plug iPhone 7 Headphones Into a New Macbook Pro

Starting with the removal of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7, Apple's port situation started getting a little confusing. With the release of the new Macbook Pros, it's gotten a little worse. There are tons of different dongles for different purposes but one little fact sums up the situation pretty nicely:

You can't plug the headphones that come with your new iPhone 7 into your new Macbook Pro. You just can't!

The iPhone 7 has no headphone port. Instead, it has a Lightning port, so Apple made headphones that plug into a Lightning port. Hooray! The Macbook Pro, meanwhile, has a headphone port, but it has no Lightning port.

Fortunately, Apple makes a dongle that let's you plug normal headphones into a Lightning port. Unfortunately Apple does not make its reverse: an adapter that lets you plug Lightning headphones into a headphone port. Until someone whips one up, you'll have to either go Bluetooth, use a dongle to use old headphones on your iPhone 7, or keep an extra pair of headphones at your desk.

To be fair, plugging iPhone 7 pack-in headphones into a new Macbook Pro is a pretty specific use case, small enough that you can see why Apple wouldn't add an extra port to the Macbook Pro just for that. Then again, this means even Apple's very newest devices don't play nice together, and the dongle that would let them doesn't even exist yet. We've reached out to Apple to see if they plan on a new dongle.

Isn't the future great?