The iPhone 7 includes plenty of improvements, but the thing it will probably always be remembered for-for better or worse-is its removal of the standard 3.5mm headphone jack.įor the sake of readability, I want to separate the “how do the Lightning headphones and AirPods actually work” questions from the “why is Apple taking my headphone jack away' questions. Further Reading If you kill the headphone jack, you need to replace it with something better