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New Dongle Just Dropped: Meet the Lightning-to-USB-C Adapter

New Dongle Just Dropped: Meet the Lightning-to-USB-C Adapter
As dumb as this dongle might look, it's much less cursed than the one Apple released back when the 10th gen iPad was released. That one existed purely to make the Lighting-based Apple Pencil work with newer iPads. To use it, you basically needed to plug in a USB-C to USB-C cable into your iPad and into the dongle, and then plug in your Apple Pencil into the other end of the dongle. It was an overly complicated design. This particular adapter should also technically allow you to charge the first-gen Apple Pencil with the 10th gen iPad, since you can actually just connect the pencil into this adapter's Lightning end and plug that into the USB-C port of the iPad. iPad support is mentioned in the adapter's description, so maybe?