I do at work sometimes. Wireless earphones make me nervous at work. I don't trust them enough to know that the music or audio from a video isn't going to come screaming out of my iphone speakers 
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Serious, how many people actually listen to headphones and charge at the same time?
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Daily. My 2011 Ford Edge only has an audio jack input. No USB or Bluetooth. I'm often running navigation + music on my phone, so I want to keep it plugged in. I'm a firm believer in keeping the battery level topped off when power is right there in front of me.
I happily ordered a 7 Plus this morning, and I believe in what Apple is doing, but I will have to buy some kind of solution for my car to solve this one port dilemma.
I happily ordered a 7 Plus this morning, and I believe in what Apple is doing, but I will have to buy some kind of solution for my car to solve this one port dilemma.
I just wrote a post on page 3 explaining how you can use one cable to listen and charge your iPhone. I am doing it waiting in the car.
I do it a lot in the car when I need to plug my phone in and also chat on the phone using earbuds.
You did answer your own question, didn't you? Anyone in an office listening to music on headphones. Or using the iPhone as a phone on headphones.
For those that are saying you charge your iPhone and listen to music in the car with 2 cables, I have a fix. I posted the fix on this thread, page 3, of how to charge and play music at the same time with one cable. If your car has an aux port close to a cigarette lighter this will work for you.
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Technically, never. I have had my phone charging in my vehicle while I listen via Bluetooth, but never with headphones on.
This was a fairly routine thing to do before I went BlueTooth. But even still it comes up regularly in my travels.
And I do see hundreds of users plugged into charging bars at airports, and Starbucks, with their headphones plugged in, using their phones. And this is surely going on simultaneously worldwide, not just the airports and Starbucks I frequent.
I see many colleagues in my office talking on their phones with their wired headphones while it's plugged in charging on their desk. Again, a pretty common occurrence.
Even I occasionally find myself in a position to do it. I always top off all my devices, or use them in flight while charging whenever possible. On one occasion I forgot my BT headset, and took a cheap pair of free earbuds from the flight attendant. So I charged and used the headphones at the same time.
On another occasion, I rented an older car that only had a 3.5mm headphone jack. So the only way to charge and listen at the same time was to plug into the headphone jack.
So these are not trivial concerns, especially when Apple includes a wired solution in the box as a way to connected headphones to the phone.
And I do see hundreds of users plugged into charging bars at airports, and Starbucks, with their headphones plugged in, using their phones. And this is surely going on simultaneously worldwide, not just the airports and Starbucks I frequent.
I see many colleagues in my office talking on their phones with their wired headphones while it's plugged in charging on their desk. Again, a pretty common occurrence.
Even I occasionally find myself in a position to do it. I always top off all my devices, or use them in flight while charging whenever possible. On one occasion I forgot my BT headset, and took a cheap pair of free earbuds from the flight attendant. So I charged and used the headphones at the same time.
On another occasion, I rented an older car that only had a 3.5mm headphone jack. So the only way to charge and listen at the same time was to plug into the headphone jack.
So these are not trivial concerns, especially when Apple includes a wired solution in the box as a way to connected headphones to the phone.
The radio is one thing, but it's dangerous to wear earbuds while driving.
Pretty much everyone that wants to use a charging case will be impacted... Charging case manufactures will need to integrate the headphone jack with their typical micro usb port, or switch to a lightning port for plugging in the case/listening to music or they'll lose sales.
Alternatively, we'll see new cases that just integrate a headphone jack...
Alternatively, we'll see new cases that just integrate a headphone jack...
Haven't ever done it once. It just seems like this is the latest manufactured "Apple controversy", you have a very niche scenario which some people are flipping out over because "WTF I might have maybe wanted to do that, at some point in the year 2018 when the moon & stars lined up just right and I had the need!"
Single earbud with microphone has been in use for cell phones for many years now, even well before smartphones.
I don't understand why they haven't also announced a Y adapter with one lightning input for charge and one mini-stereo for audio, rather than having to do the stupid plug a dongle into a dongle approach.
It's so logical that they should do it that I'm afraid its absence means that Apple won't approve a connector of that sort to *force* people to migrate away from a conventional stereo plug.
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It's so logical that they should do it that I'm afraid its absence means that Apple won't approve a connector of that sort to *force* people to migrate away from a conventional stereo plug.
I do at work sometimes. Wireless earphones make me nervous at work. I don't trust them enough to know that the music or audio from a video isn't going to come screaming out of my iphone speakers
I'm exactly the same!
I've got a powered USB hub on my desk, when I go in to work, I plug in my phone and use one earbud (typically in my right ear) and listen to podcasts/radio on and off during the day. So, the phone is plugged in and on earbuds for most of my working day (apart from when it goes into a pocket.) I usually wrap the earbuds around the phone when I carry it.
I was nervous about the removal of the jack but it's not stopped me from pre-ordering. I'm now thinking I might implement a Big Phil Schiller-approved solution of the charging dock and use the jack on that. I do get cheesed off with the earbud wires (Apple EarPod wires seem to be made of a mixture of velcro and gecko skin when it comes to sticking/tangling) so I am keeping an open mind on a wireless solution.
At the moment, if I do go wireless, I feel I'm more likely to go for something like the Powerbeats3 when they're available or something like the Jabra, TaoTronics sets. I'll wait and see what the reviews are like on the EarPods but I wasn't too keen on their aesthetics, that I'd probably lose them too easily or the 5 hour charge but we shall see...
Put a new head unit in. I put in a Pioneer DEH-X6700BT in my vehicle and it works great. I was able to get a wiring kit that enabled the stock steering wheel controls too. Although I drive a toyota.
[doublepost=1473453488][/doublepost]Oh, and I'm a "Never"
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