{"id":26429,"date":"2017-03-07T18:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T23:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=26429"},"modified":"2017-03-07T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T23:40:03","slug":"use-your-magsafe-power-adapters-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/use-your-magsafe-power-adapters-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your MagSafe Power Adapter\u2019s \u201cWings\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, Apple has shipped MagSafe power adapters with Mac laptops (although the 12-inch MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro laptops have different adapters with USB-C ports). Many people have never realized that the MagSafe adapter has two \u201cwings\u201d on the corners on either side of the integrated cable. Flip them out\u00a0and you can wrap the cable around them, securing it with the little clip that slides along the length the cable. If you\u2019ve been fussing with a messy MagSafe cable while traveling, give the wings and clip a try!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26431\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/use-your-magsafe-power-adapters-wings\/tip-magsafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,680\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024&amp;#215;680\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680-1024x680.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26431 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Magsafe\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-plugged-photo-1024x680-768x510.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 512px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 512\/340;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, Apple has shipped MagSafe power adapters with Mac laptops (although the 12-inch MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro laptops have different adapters with USB-C ports). Many people have never realized that the MagSafe adapter has two \u201cwings\u201d on the corners on either side of the integrated cable. Flip them out\u00a0and you can wrap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,53,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-mac-blog","category-quick-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tip-MagSafe-wings-photo-1080x675.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YLEm-6Sh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26214,"url":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/understanding-the-relationship-between-thunderbolt-3-and-usb-c\/","url_meta":{"origin":26429,"position":0},"title":"Understanding the Relationship between Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C","author":"computeradv","date":"January 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple\u2019s new MacBook Pro models sport both the snazzy Touch Bar and Thunderbolt 3 ports. 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