Apple AirPods 4 with Noise Cancellation $119.00 at Amazon. This newly released version of the Apple AirPods has been ...

On the other hand, one recent rumor did say that Apple will pack 3.5mm-to-Lightning adapter in iPhone 7 boxes, and keep the same design for the EarPods for at least one more year.

Later, with the iPhone 7, the lightning port also assumed the role of an audio connector in the absence of a 3.5mm headphone jack. Joe Maring / Digital Trends ...

In fact, Apple included a Lightning adapter with the initial release of the iPhone 7, 8, and X. Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case with the current iPhones.

Instead the brand-new phones ship with both a set of new EarPods, which have a Lightning adapter and a digital-to-analog converter built into the cable, and a Lightning-to-3.5mm dongle for ...

The Lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter, as it is called, as been part of the iPhone packaging since the headphone jack was omitted back with the iPhone 7 launch.

Now, with FiiO's nifty i1 headphone amplifier and digital converter, iPhone 7 (and presumably iPhone 8) users have a better option. It sells for $40 on Amazon in the US and £50 in the UK.

With these Lightning connecter-toting EarPods, an update to the last-gen Earpods with 3.5mm connection, that’s understandable. Not only are they included in the box with the iPhone 7, they’re also ...

If you’re using Lightning headphones, like the new EarPods that Apple bundles in the box with iPhone 7, Belkin’s new Lightning Audio + Charge RockStar adapter is currently the only option.

With the iPhone 7, Apple famously removed the traditional audio jack. Instead, the new device comes with EarPods that plug into the Lightning port— the same port used to charge the device.

Could the iPhone 7 Lightning connection now take analogue audio? Or was there instead a DAC inside the new Apple Lightning EarPods? And what about the £9 Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter for standard ...