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Lightning headphone adapters
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2018–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Lightning headphone adapters, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Dongles get lost, disconnect often, and phone fails to detect headphones2024-04-11
- Adapter fails with older iPhone and gets lost, so aux plugging becomes a hassle2023-05-10
- Splitter dongles flaky: phone stops charging or shows unsupported device alert2022-01-26
- Adapter is tiny, easy to lose or forget, and breaks easily2019-04-08
- Lightning headphones can't plug into MacBooks or airplane 3.5mm jacks without an adapter that doesn't exist2018-11-27