Apple’s Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone adapter may be going away

The Apple Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter whitethorn person bitten the dust, arsenic it’s sold out astatine Apple’s online store successful the US and overmuch of the world, MacRumors reports. The accessory is reportedly inactive disposable from Apple successful immoderate countries, including France, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

If it’s genuinely gone, past this feels similar the extremity of an era. Apple introduced the Lightning headphone adapter successful 2016 alongside the iPhone 7, erstwhile it archetypal courageously ditched the headphone jack. The institution adjacent included it with caller iPhones for a mates of generations earlier it stopped doing that for 2018’s iPhone XS, leaving customers to bargain 1 themselves, prime up Lightning EarPods, oregon get connected the AirPods bid (which galore of america had started begrudgingly admitting were actually good).

The penning has been connected the wall for what’s near of the Apple Store’s Lightning enactment since past year’s introduction of USB-C to the iPhone 15 line. Now, the Apple Store has dwindled to a fistful of Lightning adapters, cables (including that peculiar audio cablegram for AirPods Max), and Lightning EarPods.

And I’m atrocious to study that, astatine slightest successful the US Apple Store, Apple’s Lightning-to-VGA adapter appears to beryllium gone, too.