Lightning Female to 3.5mm Male

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Lightning Female to 3.5mm Male

With the recent release of the iPhone 7 along with the new fancy accessory for 3.5mm headphones, it made me think. What if in the future a years down the road when all headphones are lightning, and I'm still using the now outdated MBP Retina standard with 3.5mm audio jack, how will I listen to music via new headphones? Does apple have plans to make an accessory that goes the other direction that of the recently released accessory? So going from lightning headphones to female end of some adapter to male end of 3.5mm jack to computer (or any other device still with older tech.)

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 8:38 AM

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Answer 1

Jonathan UK

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Sep 8, 2016 8:58 AM in response to JustinBu

Hi

I'm afraid that no-one here can tell you anything about Apple's unannounced plans (this is a user-based community).

You may wish to submit feedback:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Or ask Apple:

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Sep 8, 2016 9:10 AM in response to JustinBu

JustinBu wrote:

With the recent release of the iPhone 7 along with the new fancy accessory for 3.5mm headphones, it made me think. What if in the future a years down the road when all headphones are lightning,

As only iPhones currently have a lightning port and no other manufacturers seem likely to switch, it seems unlikely that "all headphones" will ever be lightning jack based. I would imagine that the current standard headphones will be available for quite a number of years.

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Answer 3

Sep 8, 2016 11:44 AM in response to JustinBu

They must do, how else can you use the phone with car jacks and speakers.. Makes it a bit unusable, though I guess you can use the adapter and a male to male cable if that supports it

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