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Next week, Apple will introduce the iPhone 8, which will reportedly feature the lack of a home button, facial recognition technology, and a totally reasonable $1000 price tag. What it probably won’t include is a headphone jack, which Apple suddenly decided the world didn’t need with the last iteration of their smartphone despite the entire world telling them otherwise.
If you want to listen to something on an iPhone 7 without being that guy playing something on your speaker in a public place, you have a few options. You can either use the earbuds that came with the phone, attach a tacky looking dongle to the jack, or be that asshole walking around with a pair of AirPods. But what if there was another way?
Luckily, there is— as long as you have a great deal of technical skill and the balls to drill a hole in your phone. One backer named Scotty documented his journey back to normalcy, and while it’s a little lengthy, it’s definitely worth a watch.
You might think opening the phone and performing the technological operations required for the conversion would be the most stressful part of the undertaking, but Scotty said actually finding space inside the phone for the necessary components was the hardest part.
Via Uproxx:
I feel like I got extremely lucky about finding space inside the phone. There was inexplicably a lot of extra room in the lower left hand corner, right where I wanted to put the headphone jack. And because I was connecting the headphone adapter to the lightning jack, I needed to figure out how to make the lightning jack still work for things like charging and syncing to a computer.
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In the end, Scotty had to use parts from three different phones to make make the headphone jack work, which seems a bit more involved (and expensive) than some of the alternative options. At least he’ll be able to charge his phone and listen to something on it at the same time.