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It came with my 11 pro! Although I did immediately lose it...

• foobarian 6y ago
  And you can't charge the phone while it's plugged in.
  • switch007 6y ago
    iPhones have had wireless charging for a while though. Not as convenient of course.
    • arvinsim 6y ago
      For me, it’s more of a problem with my iPad Pro. It’s not even about charging. It’s about having to buy a USB-C hub just to plug in my headphones and midi controller to my iPad Pro.
  • sharatvir 6y ago
    It’s possible if you use a wireless charger
  • jorvi 6y ago
    You can if you order a Chinese splitter. All it does is split your lightning into two ports: the charging pins and all the other pins. Because the sound is sent digitally from your lighting port to the splitter, then digitally again to the lightning-to-3.5mm dongle you have no quality loss from a subpar splitter chip. Edit: to be clear, this shouldn’t be needed, but alas, we cannot steer Apple.
• bosswipe 6y ago
  Losing it is my biggest reason for needing the audio jack. I not only lose dongles I also lost my expensive Airpods even with the Find My app. I also lose my wired earbuds but at least they're cheap. I know many people that don't have as big a problem with losing things, maybe it's a personality thing.
  • bigiain 6y ago
    A friend of mine semi-permanently attached his dongle to his headphones by heatshrinking over the joined headphone jack/socket (after having lost several already). Seems to be a neat/workable solution. (I've never had my dongle come accidentally detached from my headphones. Maybe the tolerances in my headphone jack and my dongle socket all serendipitously turned out "just right"...)