Apple’s Lightning EarPods and (prime) the adapter for customers of older EarPods.
Customers who have not obtained round to purchasing Apple’s brief Lightning to three.5mm headphone jack adapter after eight years are actually out of luck, because the iPhone 7 accent seems to be discontinued.
Apple’s Phil Schiller could have described the iPhone 7’s dropping of the headphone jack as being “courageous,” however the firm wasn’t courageous sufficient to fully kill off wired headphones. As a substitute, it concurrently launched a brief, stubby Lightning to three.5mm adaptor, and included it within the field for the iPhone 7, iPhone 8, and iPhone X and XS fashions.
Launched in September 2016, this adapter has now been in the stores for $9 till now, eight years later. Now it is exhibiting as bought out within the US and most different on-line Apple Shops.
It may nonetheless be ordered from the web Apple Retailer in a handful of nations, together with France and Sweden, as first noticed by MacRumors.
Whereas Apple has not introduced its discontinuation, it is possible that even abroad shops will stop promoting the adapter as soon as present shares have run out.
After eight years, it is potential that the ubiquity of AirPods is such that gross sales are too low to warrant persevering with. Additionally it is the case that the adapter was one of many final Apple merchandise to make use of Lightning.
Most not too long ago, Apple’s Magic equipment grew to become the most recent to be up to date to utilizing USB-C. It signifies that the iPhone 14 and iPhone SE are actually the one units nonetheless utilizing the older connector.
If the adapter has been quietly discontinued, nonetheless, it doesn’t imply that Apple has completely stopped promoting a method for iPhone customers to make use of any wired headphones. The corporate continues to be promoting its personal wired EarPods in both USB-C, Lightning, or 3.5mm varieties.
