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The reason I'm bemoaning the loss of the headphone jack on the newer iPad Pro: 1) the dongle is fragile; I broke one in the space of a few weeks, 2) Zoom doesn't retain my input settings between meetings. So I am forced to unplug and replug the USB-C dongle between every meeting.

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I suspect that this is actually a bug in iPadOS.

I've had issues with the USB-C to 3.5mm dongle, including a period of time in which it was completely non-functional. But then a week ago I noticed out of the corner of my eye that my iPad (the new Pro 11) was rebooting itself. And now the dongle works perfectly again.

Give it a shot - if it starts acting goofy again, reboot your iPad and see if that "fixes" it. I'm going to pay attention to it for a while and file a bug report if it looks to be correlated.

I'll try it again but I found that oddly using a Baseus iPad Pro USB C hub also fixes the issue. Unfortunately the headphone jack on the hub doesn't have enough gain for me so I still have to use the dongle, but at least I don't have to unplug and replug for every call.

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