Someone Drilled a Headphone Jack Into Their iPhone 7 [Video]

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Posted September 26, 2016 at 2:04pm by Shalom Levytam

With Apple's controversial decision to remove the headphone jack in the iPhone 7, it was just a matter of time until someone took a drill to the device.

TechRax posted a video of the 'hack' to YouTube:

This video is for those who don't want to get $159 wireless airpods or have to insert your headphones into an adapter every time you listen to music.

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DAC general - April 14, 2017 at 5:44pm

I do care about this. On the iPhone 6s, the headphones have a bass sound that is pretty good—bass-filled but not too bad. The earbuds don't make ears hurt on highs. On the iPhone 7, the bass is there but not as pronounced. I immediately noticed this. The mids and overall fidelity sounds better, I admit, but with added tinniness and a reduction in bass deepness. They sound more hi-fi but have less dynamic range through the mids and lows. It's loud without crackling, but it bugs me that I have lost the punchiness in the bass. I'd rather use the old headphones on the adapter. I think I liked the tones of the 6s headphone jack more, even if the fidelity isn't as high. I do think the LDAC and Sony X33 speaker sounds better on the 7 than via Bluetooth on the 6s, but I'm starting to get frustrated with DACs in general.

Guest - September 27, 2016 at 6:34am

The point is the jack most likely could have remained in the same spot. They wanted to sell the adapter, and potentially increase the water retention. Water damage is still not covered under the warranty I believe, so the removal of the jack was pointless it appears. What good is a waterproof iPhone 7 then? Many cars do not have Bluetooth, and many have a headphone jack they plug their devices into. It was to sell the adapter; wireless headphones would have worked regardless.

gamerscul9870 - September 27, 2016 at 1:17pm

The jack removal was necessary after all. The jack is 100+ years old and many ports on computers have been dropped one after another. The headphone jack removal gets iPhome 1 meter water pressure because with the jack, water gets in the phone that way, sound through that is analog compared to lightning with digital sound, plus some say wires are becoming obselete and the headphone jack will be the next decade.

Win - September 27, 2016 at 5:00am

I honestly don't get the point. Why damage a perfectly working phone? Give it away if you can't do something better with it.

Guest - September 27, 2016 at 3:38am

Whoever said this person is wasting his money should consider the views. He makes way more money with the views. Haven't you heard? Post a video breaking something expensive and make 5 times that money through YouTube ads.

PerpetuallyBlue - September 26, 2016 at 10:57pm

I hate it when people ruin a perfectly good iPhone for no reason at all.

galford - September 26, 2016 at 2:16pm

Video shows phone jack not removed because of space but because of selling too much adapter and their wireless expensive pods, they will not put any audio adapter to next gen iPhones

captain Obvious - September 26, 2016 at 2:14pm

Did it work?

gamerscul9870 - September 26, 2016 at 2:24pm

No. It's obvious we can hear the music from the speakers and see the WUX port not go all the way in, but the easiest way he could have proven this to work is turning up the volume and it would've said 'headphones'

yousefq25 - September 26, 2016 at 2:08pm

Does anyone else Think how much of a waste of money these videos are? I mean is anyone actually impressed by people shooting newly released phones..? First you see them shooting these phones with bullets and now this… I don't get it…!? This person just lost serious amount of money for no reason!

gamerscul9870 - September 26, 2016 at 2:25pm

But who knows how much people are making. I can understand view count, but what does it take to make up that much back?

AverageReviewer - September 28, 2016 at 2:38pm

Well if 20 year old vloggers live in LA and can afford it with only 200,000 subs on their channel I think people like this can rebuy their iPhone.

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