Apple Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter

Since the iPhone 7 dropped the headphone jack, this small Apple Lightning to 3.5mm adapter has been the bridge that lets any standard wired headphone, earphone, or aux cable connect to a Lightning-port iPhone or iPad. It includes Apple's own digital-to-analog conversion chip, which matters — a cheap unlicensed adapter can introduce noticeable audio quality loss or fail to output audio at all on iOS, since Apple's MFi authentication chip is required for the connection to work reliably.

Being MFi-certified, it works consistently across iOS updates in a way third-party unlicensed dongles sometimes don't. The trade-off is that it occupies your only Lightning port while headphones are plugged in, so you cannot charge your iPhone through the port and use wired headphones at the same time without a splitter — and it only outputs audio, so it won't charge headphones that draw power over the connection.

• MFi-certified Lightning to 3.5mm with built-in DAC chip
• Reliable audio output across iOS versions
• Occupies the Lightning port — cannot charge and use wired audio simultaneously