As long as there&#x27;s an adapter that provides a headphone jack, I don&#x27;t see a problem in removing the onboard headphone jack.<p>The bigger problem lies with the use of Lightning to begin with, rather than a standard like USB type-C.  That would solve the power problem: adapters exist to split out power and other ports from a single type-C port.  It would also solve the &quot;only works with&quot; problem, since normal USB headphones would work, or analog-over-type-C devices; that, unfortunately, makes it far less likely to happen on an iDevice.<p>I look forward to incredibly thin Android devices with nothing except type-C, though.