Apple to Drop Headphone Jack for iPhone 7?

And what’s more, those new Lightning headphones wouldn’t be compatible with your Mac, or your Windows PC, and if you use an aux cord in your vehicle, you would need another adapter.

The purported Lightning connector will support lightning equipped headphones.

For iPhone7, Apple will launch a new pair of EarPods that will have a Lightning connector in order to connect to the new smartphone.

Owners of unreasonably expensive third-party headphones can expect that Apple will also release some kind of 3.5mm-to-Lightning port adapter.

Apple may likely adopt this idea for their next iPhone should they push through with ditching the headphone jack.

Which means you’ll be a lot less likely to leave your new headphones on the bus or in the gym… On the other side, the new aluminum used by Apple in manufacturing the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus might be strong enough to deal with this. Despite the rumor, the iPod touch 1mm thickness is compared to iPhone 7 because it still has the 3.5mm jack.

Apple is planning to drop the headphone jack with the upcoming iPhone 7, reports Macotakara. They will ship with the new iPhones, most probably. The headphones lightning connector technology has caught the interest of Apple during the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2014, according to Tech Insider. Currently, Philips has Lightning-equipped Fidelio M2L and Fidelio NC1L headphones. But it appears that the fruity cargo cult might see some mileage in a different headphone jack before it goes down that route.

While that would make charging and listening to headphones simultaneously very hard, Apple hopes to make the device 1mm thinner as a result.

But that’s par for the course at Apple, where Chief Executive Tim Cook has faithfully preserved the late Steve Jobs’s obsession with creating ever-thinner hardware products.