Accessory not supported by iPhone

Hi

When using electronic accessories with your iPhone, ensure that they are either genuine Apple products or that they have been certified as Made for iPhone under the MFi program. Certified items come with the "Made for iPhone" logo on them and/or on their packaging.

Using uncertified or counterfeit accessories may damage your iPhone and/or adversely affect operation. Apple's warranty does not cover damage caused by use with a third party product that does not meet Apple's specifications.

More information:

About iPhone, iPad, and iPod accessories - Apple Support

Identify counterfeit or uncertified Lightning connector accessories - Apple Support

Belkin Lightning Audio Charge Rockstar

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKKP2ZM/A/belkin-lightning-audio-charge-rockst ar?fnode=00f89e4bcc8b21273c81cd2b2e7e2b8…

Phone -> Belkin Lightning Splitter -> Charger -> Power

and

Phone -> Belkin Lightning Splitter -> Apple-supplied headphone adapter.

My splitters were working fine until the update.

Now I have to replace my simple lightning audio splitters with multiple (read clunky, difficult to manage and carry) adapters to support my headphones or car audio. Headphones that previously plugged directly into the phone and worked beautifully without any adapters, marketplace for accessories, and "THIS ACCESSORY IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THIS PHONE" errors in all-caps when I plug in a device. At this point, the only Made for iPhone certified splitter is from Belkin. I verified this with an Apple chat.

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> Using uncertified or counterfeit accessories may damage your iPhone and/or adversely affect operation.

Translation: Apple wants more money out of you, and put malware into the latest OS release to force you to stick with their accessories only.

This is my last iPhone. The only thing that's "adversely affecting operation" is Apple OS.

I agree with the above. I just switched from Samsung to Iphone after my old phone was stolen, and I miss my old phone so deeply. I wish I could afford to break my contract, but I'm trapped for now. My new headphone converter works great, until the Iphone blocks it. Blocking my hardware appears to be just another way to try to force me to buy more apple stuff. So disappointing. This appears to be one of many scenarios where apple is acting extremely elitist. Ironic, since I cannot find anything for them to be elitist about. The Iphone is much more difficult to use than my old one, with more quirks, glitches, and as far as I can tell, no benefits to switching.

Strange to see this elitist behavior from apple when they have so much competition.

No one here works for Apple so you aren't seeing Apple be "elitist" whatever that means in your mind.

There are 161 companies that sell accessories that are certified Made for iPhone. If Apple is trying to force you to by their products they are doing a poor job of it. Who made your headphone converter and is it certified as MFi?

Did you figure out a fix? I have the same issue. It worked before the update, now it states it's not supported. So frustrating!

I have a brand new iPhone X with new original adapter (given in the box) and experiencing the same issue. After 3 mn, the message appear. What should I do? Any software issue?