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.

Did the iPhone 7 survive? Take a look below...

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

i DO CARE ABOUT THIS.... HEADPHONES 6s----bass sound pretty good what im used to a bass filled but not too bad earbud doesnt make ears hurt on highs ear drum not clicking HEADPHONES 7--- bass is there but not as pronounced idk why but immediatly noticed this and wa slike hey whaaaa?? the mids and overall fidelity sounds better i admit but with it is added tinnyness and idk why the redux in bass deepness it seems but they sound like they got more hi fi and less dynamic range thru mids and lows -- idk its loud without crackling my ear drum also but it buggs me that i nearly have lost all my punchyness background to my bass now id rather take back the old headphones kinda in a way and use those on the adapter but really.. shit i think i liked the tones of the 6s headjack but yes yes yes i know fidelity isnt there as much on 6s -- and i do think the ldac and sony x33 speaker sounds better on the 7 then on bt over the 6s but idk for sure im starting to get angry at Dac's in general now damn YOU dac's

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Lee - September 27, 2016 at 8:43am

How can anyone be so gullible???!

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clown - September 27, 2016 at 6:34am

The point is the jack most likely could have remained in the same spot. They wanted to the 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 water ip7 or what ever it is then . Many cars do not have Bluetooth,and many have a headphone jack they plug there devices into. Was to sell the adapter, wireless headphones would have worked regardless.

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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.

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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. BTW, iClarified, stop posting news like this, its irrelevant and we don't learn nothing from it.

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Adel Albuaijan - September 27, 2016 at 8:02am

I totally agree with you , i always follow iClarified for new news , but posting videos that have no meaning or intellectual benefits, it will damage your reputation.

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MoneyMaker - September 27, 2016 at 3:38am

Whoever said this person is wasting his money are stupid. 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.

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mza - September 27, 2016 at 3:32am

iClarified. please post useful stuff, like cell carriers are discontinuing iPhone 6 trade in plan to get iPhone 7 for $0 down, etc.

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PerpetuallyBlue - September 26, 2016 at 10:57pm

I hate it when people f¥ck up a perfectly good iPhone for no reason at all.

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name - September 26, 2016 at 8:11pm

@iclarified this post is quite a departure

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NeverSamsuck - September 26, 2016 at 3:32pm

Wow-waste of time --Smdh

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Amatmulisha - September 26, 2016 at 3:23pm

Such a waste.while people in china desperates selling their kidney just for a price of an iPhone.what a world

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Jorge Martinez - September 26, 2016 at 3:04pm

crap

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VaRGo - September 26, 2016 at 2:55pm

What a shame !! instead of wasting that money, he could feed many poor people

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Jack Black - September 26, 2016 at 2:27pm

That was an incredibly pointless video. Never will get that time back.

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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

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

Did it work?

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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'

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Dredrums - September 26, 2016 at 2:12pm

Pointless.

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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!

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A non e moose - September 26, 2016 at 2:12pm

Agreed. Logic of Apple fanboys is truly primitive.

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one apple a day - September 26, 2016 at 2:15pm

and the logic of samsung is explosive

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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?

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