{"id":66194,"date":"2016-12-12T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=66194"},"modified":"2016-12-12T17:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:46:26","slug":"let-your-dongle-dangle-with-this-essential-accompaniment-to-your-iphone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/let-your-dongle-dangle-with-this-essential-accompaniment-to-your-iphone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Let your dongle dangle with this essential accompaniment to your iPhone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcdaffa42f5faebb8ad10067ae2616b0_original.jpg\" alt=\"dcdaffa42f5faebb8ad10067ae2616b0_original\" width=\"680\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcdaffa42f5faebb8ad10067ae2616b0_original.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcdaffa42f5faebb8ad10067ae2616b0_original-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dcdaffa42f5faebb8ad10067ae2616b0_original-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Apple bravely removed the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, they included a helpful dongle in every box: a 3.5mm to Lightning adapter. This dongle allows you to use old headphones with the new iPhone, thus ensuring you didn&#8217;t have to rush out and buy Lightning or Bluetooth headphones that you weren&#8217;t planning on. However, this has also caused a problem&#8230; namely, it&#8217;s pretty easy to lose track of this essential accessory!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where the Dongle Dangler comes in. This curiously named accessory is essentially a bit of metal in the shape of a 3.5mm headphone connector with a key-ring attachment. The idea is pretty simple &#8212; plug it into your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/apple\/iphone-7\/iphone-7-lightning-audio\">3.5mm to Lightning dongle<\/a>, put it on your key chain, and then you&#8217;ll always know where your dongle is.<\/p>\n<p>Makers Plexity Labs are flogging the Dongle Dangler on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/plexitylabs\/never-lose-your-iphone-7-headphone-dongle-adapter?ref=d1353p\">Kickstarter<\/a>, where it&#8217;s already crushed its $500 goal by $2,000. Pledge $5 plus shipping, and you get a Dongle Dangler in time for Christmas. You can also purchase multiple units at a slight discount, if you want to equip all of your iPhone-7-toting friends with one for some reason. There&#8217;s just over a day to go on the campaign, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be available for sale afterwards as well.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon it&#8217;s a pretty clever product &#8212; maybe even an essential one if you&#8217;re using the headphone adapter a lot! What do you think? Should we stock this ourselves? Let us know in the comments below, or write to us on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mobilefun\">@mobilefun<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Apple bravely removed the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, they included a helpful dongle in every box: a 3.5mm to Lightning adapter. 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However, this has also caused a problem&#8230; namely, it&#8217;s pretty easy to lose track of this essential accessory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":66195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8208,155,6,216],"tags":[8197,8198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66197,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66194\/revisions\/66197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}