Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad have USB-C

Apple is yet removing the Lightning larboard from its lineup of Mac accessories. This morning, the institution announced a caller iMac with M4 that comes with updated versions of the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad that see USB-C, and is besides selling them individually successful the Apple Store.

All 3 person featured the proprietary Lightning larboard since 2015.

The displacement to USB-C is overdue: each Mac desktops and notebooks had switched to USB-C arsenic their superior connectivity larboard by 2018. The iPad started getting USB-C the aforesaid year, and USB-C arrived connected the iPhone successful 2023. Switching these accessories to USB-C volition let galore Apple instrumentality owners to flip their USB-C-to-Lightning cables present that the full enactment has switched over.

EU regulators pressured Apple to afloat power from Lightning, with the institution yet updating the larboard connected the iPhone 15 past year. Apple has been dilatory swapping retired the ports connected its remaining devices since then. Last month, the institution upgraded its AirPods Max headphones to USB-C arsenic good (and… didn’t bash overmuch else).

In the past fewer years, Apple has had respective opportunities to regenerate its machine peripherals with caller versions that, astatine the precise least, updated however they charge. However, alongside the merchandise of the M1 Mac Mini successful 2020, the redesigned M1 iMac successful 2021, the Mac Studio successful 2022, and each of their spec upgrades successful 2023, Apple seemed determined to support Lightning.

Now, the iPhone SE is Apple’s last large instrumentality with a Lightning port, which may alteration soon enough.

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