Your new $1,000+ iPhone won’t come with a headphone dongle in the box

Enlarge / Hello dongle, my old friend. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

Apple will no longer include a Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone jack adapter with new iPhone purchases.

The removal of the headphone dongle listing on Apple's iPhone product pages was first spotted by The Verge. A quick look through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine appears to confirm the change. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The change looks like it will apply to the three new iPhone models launched on Wednesday-the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR-as well as the older iPhone 8 and iPhone 7.

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