![]() ![]() Or the Lightning-to-regular-headphone adapter dongle, which Apple’s thoughtfully included in the box. You could use the included wired Apple EarPods, which now have a strange Lightning plug instead of a 3.5mm one. True, the iPhone 7 gives you a number of options: Get a pair of Bluetooth headphones. ![]() Photograph: Appleįor Cnet’s Scott Stein, the removal of the headphone socket is a pain, a compromise that feels forced. View image in fullscreen Apple has history when it comes to just shipping products with only one port, just look at the MacBook and its single USB-C port. Listening to music through Lightning or Bluetooth headphones is a breeze on the iPhone 7, but Apple has ignored the fact that the rest of the world is using the original standard. I think that’s going to be the biggest problem as people adjust to the death of the headphone jack. That means I had to pull out a second pair of regular EarPods that I had with me from my iPhone 6. But I had shiny new pair of the Lightning EarPods, and Delta’s system requires the standard jack. When I was flying back to New York last week, I wanted to watch a movie on Delta’s in-flight entertainment system. Make sure you go in with your eyes open.įor Business Insider’s Steve Kovach, not having a headphone jack on the iPhone 7 isn’t an issue, but everything else not having a Lightning socket or Bluetooth is. If you buy an iPhone 7 on launch day, you’ll be wading into the most painful part of the transition. I can totally accept the premise that the future is wireless, but the present is still mostly wired. This runs up against the less-talked-about effect of the disappearing headphone jack, which is that the iPhone 7 only has one port where all previous models had two. The latter problem is more complicated: if you need to charge the phone and listen to audio at the same time. To solve this problem, I’ve found myself using my standard 3.5mm earbuds plugged into the dongle to listen to music and podcasts on the iPhone 7 just to make it easier to switch to my MacBook Air or 3DS when I want to. First, if you’re listening to music on your iPhone and you’d like to plug into some non-iDevice with a 3.5mm jack but no Lightning port, including to but not limited to your Mac, you’re out of luck. Most people will feel the absent headphone jack the most in two situations. Photograph: Monica Davey/EPAĪndrew Cunningham, writing for Ars Technica, cuts right to the heart of the matter. View image in fullscreen The one socket to rule them all.
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