Apple quietly kills the old-school iPad and its headphone jack

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I upgraded our family iPad from a 3rd gen (2012) a few months back. I was looking forward to finally moving to USB-C until I realized that none of the USB-C ones had headphones jacks.

I went with a 9th gen one because it was the only one they were still selling with the headphones jack. My son was using it with headphones this morning, so I think I made the right choice.

You can buy a cheap dongle to plug your headphones into the USB-C port. It works fine, but now you have the problem of keeping track of the dongle when they kids unplug it.

Yeah, my wife has some of the dongles for her iPhone, and.. they don't seem very reliable. Even when you can keep track of them.

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