New iPhone ditches headphone jack, Twitter revolts

The new iPhone is not only dust proof and water resistant, it's headphone proof, too.

September 7, 2016 at 7:30PM
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, talks about the features on the new iPhone 7 during an event to announce new products Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, in San Francisco.
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, talks about the features on the new iPhone 7 during an event to announce new products Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, in San Francisco. (Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Apple unveiled the new iPhone 7 Wednesday afternoon and despite its sleek "jet black" color option and fancy camera upgrades, all anyone cares about is the missing headphone jack. iPhone users took to Twitter to express their dismay.

Not all is lost, headphone jack lovers. In place of the missing jack will be a second speaker, giving the phone stereo sound, and Apple has developed a set of EarPods with a Lightning connector that will be included with the phone. Additionally, the iPhone 7 will come with an adapter so you can use your existing headphones.

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