iPad Pro New iPad Pro : no headphone jack, big issue!

[stevo8]

You can get wireless earbuds from target for $7. I use them all the time for podcasts and movies while in bed to not disturb the wife. Not great for music or loud areas but work fine otherwise.

 

[WinterMute]

I do use iPad Pro for music practice and audio processing most of the time. I also use audio interface for desktop situation. I just don't want to have to remember to bring any, I mean any, dongles when I use iPad Pro as a music production tool.

Nope, I agree, but I'd use one for casual music listening if I needed to.

We have to remember a bag of cables when we go remote recording, one more probably won't hurt.

 

[partsofspeech]

Nope, I agree, but I'd use one for casual music listening if I needed to.

We have to remember a bag of cables when we go remote recording, one more probably won't hurt.

Small surprises bug me too. For example, Rode Rec app does not allow 96KHz recording for iRig Pro. Rode said the iPad Pro (2017) does not have sufficient audio A/D power.

 

[Playfoot]

Because wired headphones would never go away and as a result Bluetooth headphones would take much longer to come down to an affordable price point. The pace of innovation would slow. Without constant innovation everything becomes commoditized and Apple wouldn’t be able to sustain fat margins.

Don’t think of dongles as a permanent solution. Think of them as a rickety bridge to the future. Once cross you the bridge (i.e., buy yourself some good Bluetooth headphones) you don’t need the bridge anymore.

Well, it is indeed a very rickety bridge. I think the most frustrating point of BT, and I have used BT since 2000, is that the battery dies well before the device battery is finished, thereby stopping the users ability to use the device as intended. Once BT batteries can last for a true ten or 12 hours, then it might be time to replace the jack.

 

[Mabus51]

Of course there are wireless options. For higher fidelity or technical usage you'll have to use the dongle/converter. I do miss the headphone jacks on iPhones and iPads, but luckily for my main use I use wireless and would not want anything else. Still out of principle this is really bad of Apple.

Don’t talk high fidelity when using iTunes or hell even the iPad. All it’s audio is compressed. Even GarageBand on iPad uses mp3 audio. High fidelity and idevices are a joke. Even if you play flac files it’s still compressed playback through the DAC on the old headphone jack.

 

[JohnnyQuest]

Get a pair of AirPods.

 

[Nozuka]

I don't really care about the jack being gone.

But i'm a bit disappointed that apple is doing nothing to improve the quality of bluetooth audio.

Or at least support aptX HD

 

[Senglish]

It’s a win-win for Apple. It’s cheaper for them to make iPads without the jack - then they can sell a boat-load of $9 dongles that cost them pennies. They couldn’t be bothered to include something so trivial in the box. Pretty easy to see why they’re so wealthy.

 

[Perene]

 

[VMMan]

I ordered a USB-C dongle that has a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a USB-C PD port for charging that will hopefully be acceptable. Most of these dongles have very mixed reviews.

For now, when I watch videos, I still use my 1st gen 12.9” iPad instead of my 2018 gen 3.

 

[aevan]

If you buy an iPad with no headphone jack, how can you watch a movie on an airplane with a friend/husband/wife ? Now I’m using an adapter with the headphone jack where we connect our headphones. Does it exist something wireless?!?

1. USB-C to Headphone jack adapter
2. USB-C hub with a headphone jack
3. USB-C headphones
4. BT headphones
5. AirPods