DON’T MISS: The iPhone 7 nightmare ... EarPods now that the reference design is available. If these are in fact Apple headphones, they we’re looking at a bulky Lightning connector that ...

Lightning is one end ... to analog audio began with the iPhone 7 when Apple eliminated the 3.5mm earphones jack, a standard since the 1950s (see mini-phone connector). THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

A short cable that allows wired headphones with the traditional 3.5mm mini-phone connector to plug into the Lightning port of an iPhone. Starting with the iPhone 7, Apple eliminated the analog ...

The Lightning headphone adapter first arrived in 2016 alongside the release of the iPhone 7. This was the first iPhone ... including all of Apple's previous EarPods, unusable.