Wondering Why The Headphone Jack Missing In The iPhone 7? Here's Why

With every new iPhone release, it is now a tradition for iFixit, the device repairing site to break the device apart and look what has changed inside. Through the teardown process, they found out just what replaced the headphone jack exactly.

So as expected, iFixit performed a complete teardown of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus to dole out information about internal parts that Apple preferred to leave out in its keynote speech during the iPhone 7 launch event.

iFixit says the process of tearing down the iPhone 7 Plus is quite similar to the previous models. It found that the classic pentahole screws are still there along with two familiar screws holding each side of the lightning connector.

Because the iPhone 7 Plus is now water resistant, the device opens to the side once the display is removed.

Coming to the headphone jack, the geeks at iFixit found that the newly introduced Taptic Engine takes up most of the space reserved for the 3.5mm headphone jack. However, interestingly there is now a plastic bumper where the headphone jack used to be.

While the Taptic Engine that powers the home button in the iPhone 7 Plus is the reason for the headphone jack going kaput, iFixit notes that water proofing is also one of the major reasons for ditching it.

Apart from this, iFixit also found out the exact amount of juice the new iPhone batteries have. While the iPhone 6 Plus ran on a 2750mAh battery, the new iPhone 7 Plus features a 2915mAh battery. During the keynote speech, Apple only revealed the new iPhone 7 Plus will give an hour of battery more than its predecessor. With the exact figure revealed, it seems it is indeed the battery that has become larger along with OS-level optimizations.

The dual camera setup was also examined by the team at iFixit. It noted that the camera has "dual lenses, dual sensors and two little connectors."

There are two 12-megapixel cameras, one with a wide-angle lens along with optical image stabilization similar to the iPhone 7 and another, a telephoto lens for optical zoom.

There are also two sensors that Apple claims is 60 per cent faster and 30 per cent energy efficient than the predecessors.

The cameras are built into a chassis to enable waterproofing and dust protection. This chassis is the reason behind the ugly camera bump in the iPhone 7 Plus.

The website still hasn't started the teardown of the 4.7-inch iPhone 7. As for the new Apple Watch Series 2, the teardown process has just started which iFixit notes is now much easier thanks to the new ZIF connectors.

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8 iPhone 7 details you may have missed

You’ve read the press release (which confirmed most of the rumors) so what else might you want to know when you pick up iPhone 7 and it wakes up? What follows are a few details some of which you may not have come across.

Get to the Camera

Apple made a successful explanation of the advanced new camera technologies you’ll find in iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus. The standard iPhone 7 comes with a 12MP camera, while the iPhone 7 Plus boasts a dual-camera system, with a wide-angle and telephoto lens that provides 2x optical zoom, and 10x digital zoom for photos. Both get optical image stabilization and an ƒ/1.8 aperture that allows up to 50 percent more light than the 6s. The lens has been improved and will capture better photos in low light, while the flash is 50% brighter than before with an intelligent sensor designed to compensate for flicker. You can learn more about the camera here. These improvements are big enough to have helped many consumers get past the loss of the headphone jack. You can unlock the camera by swiping your finger right on the lockscreen when your iPhone is locked. Doing so brings up the camera app so you can grab a snap fast. I still don’t know if you can use Siri to take a picture.

Live Photos

Live Photos improve in iPhone 7. Not only does the built-in camera offer optical stabilization tools that should improve image quality, but it also provides better Live Photos editing tools so you can tweak those moving images to just the right fragment. Apple is also making these tools available to third party app developers.

That processor

We know the new A10 Fusion processor is ultra-powerful, 40 percent faster than the A9 the quad-core chip delivers twice the performance of iPhone 6. A Geekbench listing for the iPhone 7 Plus spotted by 9to5Mac claims the device carries 3GB of RAM. This generates a single-core score of 3,233 and a multi-core result of 5,363, just a few points behind the 5,472 performance you get from a 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Apple hasn’t disclosed how much RAM it has put inside the new phones, but a TENNA certification has emerged online that pegs the iPhone 7 Plus as holding 3GB RAM, while the iPhone 7 uses just 2GB.

Setting up Home

Apple’s iPhone 7 Home button uses a Force Touch enabled taptic engine and sensor that should make it more responsive. One thing you probably didn’t know is that you can customize button behavior in iPhone Settings>General>Home. Here you can choose what happens when you double-click the Home button. Doing so will take you to your choice of Home, Search, Phone Favorites, Camera or iPod. You can also set the Home button up in order that when you are playing music a double click will take you directly to music playback controls.

Better audio?

The decision to abandon the headphone jack actually makes more sense than it creates non-sense. You see, not only is Apple able to deliver better digital audio through the Lightning cable, but the removal of the port has created the space Apple needed for the Taptic Engine and a stereo speaker system. This means that when you use iPhone 7 for music or video playback you’ll get better volume and better sound clarity. Apple includes a pair of Lightning EarPods in the box, along with a Lightning to 3.5mm jack conversion adapter. The company also introduced new wireless AirPods ($159), which use a custom W1 wireless chip; however, as these aren’t water resistant I’d recommend most consumers choose one of Apple’s Beats subsidiaries new headphones which you can safely use when you run.

Jet Black

Apple’s designers love to experiment with new materials and process technologies and the new Jet Black iPhone is positive proof of this. That’s not to say there aren’t a few snags, not only does the small print warn that this finish may be “prone to fine micro-abrasions”, but you can only get it on the 128GB or 256GB iPhone models. The smartphones are also available in (matte) black, silver, gold and rose gold.

Water resistance

The iPhone 7 has IP67 water resistance. This doesn’t mean you want to leave it overnight in the rain, but does mean it will be able to withstand being in up to a meter of water for up to 30 minute. The iPhone 7 also has a moisture detection feature that will warn you if it finds moisture inside the device – if the warning comes up you should disconnect any accessory from the Lightning port and leave the device to dry.

This is 7

Apple’s “This is 7” slogan means something fairly rude in Hong Kong, so the company changed it.

“You’re holding it wrong”

Remember when Steve Jobs told us all we were “holding it wrong” as the company worked to undo the damage of antenna-gate? Well, the scientists say he was right all along.

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The iPhone 7’s new A10 Fusion: quad-core, high-efficiency, and a more powerful GPU

Apple announced the iPhone yesterday, along with its A10 microprocessor. We’ll have to wait a bit to see how the new CPU compares with the A9 in terms of overall performance, but Apple shared some significant details of what to expect with the new chip.

Past rumors have suggested a second-generation 14nm SoC built at TSMC, but Apple said nothing about either its process node or foundry manufacturer of choice. What we do know is that the new A10 is a quad-core, 3.3-billion transistor CPU (the A9 CPU contained more than two billion transistors) with an estimated 40% performance advantage over A9 (according to Apple).

Big.Little-ish

Ever since it debuted the iPhone 4s, Apple has stuck to a dual-core policy for its iPhone, even as its Android competitors steadily boosted their core counts. It’s become common for flagship Android devices to field 4-8 cores — either a single cluster of high-end CPUs like the Snapdragon 820, or a combination of high-end and low-power CPUs in a unified cluster via ARM’s big.Little.

When ARM debuted big.Little it was by no means certain that the idea would take off. As we covered at the time, making the large and small CPU clusters talk to each other effectively required some heavy lifting from both SoC manufacturers and Android itself. Intel, meanwhile, believed that it could use Dynamic Frequency and Voltage Scaling to effectively address the market with a single CPU or CPU cluster, rather than relying on clusters of high-performance and high-efficiency CPU cores that share data and workloads amongst themselves.

Apple isn’t calling its own cluster implementation big.Little, but its implementation of the same concept appears similar. The A10 will combine two high performance cores with 40% better performance than the A9 with two high-efficiency cores that draw 1/5 the power of the A10’s high-end chips. The controller that manages these workloads is custom Apple silicon, so we don’t know how well Apple’s solution will compare with ARM’s. Apple could be facing a learning curve here — the first chips to implement big.Little didn’t actually do so properly and it took several technology and Android iterations before the standard was fully supported in both hardware and software. Alternately, Apple may have been developing the technology through several revisions, and only rolled it out when it knew it had everything nailed down.

Apple is also claiming that the new GPU inside the iPhone 7 will deliver 50% more graphics performance than A9 and 240x more performance than the original iPhone. These gains appear to have been plotted against the iPhone 6s rather than the 6s Plus. The iPhone 7’s battery life is said to have improved as a result of these changes, with more than two hours of run-time compared with the iPhone 6s and one hour more than the iPhone 6s Plus.

Apple’s decision to use a similar technology to big.Little should pay dividends in terms of battery performance, but we’ll have to wait for more details before we can compare the two technologies. The latest revisions of big.Little allow for workloads to be shared across all the CPU cores in a device, provided its thermal budget allows for this. Apple may have duplicated this functionality with the A10 Fusion. Apple is also claiming that its screens are now 25% brighter than before, and these types of changes can have a significant impact on battery life.

Heading into the event there were rumors that the iPhone would use an Intel-branded modem rather than a Qualcomm chip, but if this is true Tim Cook didn’t mention it. The new Fusion technology Apple is debuting here is a significant shift for its device strategy and it’ll be interesting to see how the new hardware impacts overall SoC performance. The GPU is presumably by Imagination Technologies — they’ve built the hardware for every iPhone and there’s no sign Tim Cook changed suppliers for the iPhone 7.

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The iPhone 7S may ditch the iconic home button

With seemingly few mysteries left surrounding the iPhone 7 attention is already turning to the iPhone 7S, and one big change we might see in next year's phone is the removal of the home button.

This is a rumor we've heard before, but now Bloomberg is making the same claims, citing "a person familiar with the matter."

The site doesn't go into any more detail, other than to say that the changes to the phone are designed with a focus on the display in mind, with possibly ultrasonic frequency used to identify the finger.

This adds up with earlier rumors, which suggested that a future iPhone would have a fingerprint scanner built into the screen, allowing the display to be bigger, with less bezel above and below it.

It sounds like an ambitious change, but with the iPhone 7 likely to be a fairly modest upgrade we're expecting big things from the iPhone 7S, especially as it will mark the iPhone's tenth anniversary.

One step at a time and the removal of the home button might not be a sudden change, as there have also been rumors that Apple will redesign the button for the iPhone 7, making the button pressure-sensitive rather than having it physically click.

That's one of the things we're less sure we're going to see on the iPhone 7, as it's not been as heavily rumored as other changes, like the removal of the headphone jack, but it would make sense as a step towards the total removal of the button.

We'll know soon, as the iPhone 7 is expected to launch on September 7. The iPhone 7S is likely still over a year away, so we'll have a much longer wait to find out whether Apple is getting rid of the home button entirely, but one way or another the iPhone 7S is likely to be a big change, with a massive curved screen and a glass back also rumored.

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17 iPhone Tricks To Make Your Life Easier

Did you know you could actually correct Siri's pronunciation?​

Sure, there's plenty your trusty iPhone can already do. It can help you find your way home, settle bar debates and, heck, even make the odd phone call or two. In a pinch you could probably serve small canapés off it. But this pocketable box of wonder isn't just a pretty vessel into the world of internet joy and messaging madness. Oh no.

There are dozens of cool iPhone features hidden beneath the surface that you probably weren't even aware of. These are some of the best iPhone hacks you didn't know about, and exactly how you can find them.

1. Charge your phone faster with a single button press.

Tired of waiting for your phone to recharge? Well, there is a way to speed up the re-juicing process, and it's surprisingly simple — just engage Airplane mode. By knocking out all your phone's Wi-Fi-searching, data-draining communication skills, it takes the strain off your battery while it's being powered up. Not hugely, true — but if you're pressed for time and looking to eke out every bit of juice, that extra 4% you'll add in 30 minutes connected to the mains could make all the difference.

2. Shave seconds off of your searches.

When it comes to finding out the latest league standings or proving a point, getting where you need to go on the internet is all about speed and precision — something missing when you're forced to knock out type-heavy web addresses. So save time by holding down the period icon while typing out an address to bring up a short-cut series of URL suffixes. From the classic (.com) to the less used (.edu, .ie), there are quick hit shortcuts for all.

3. Discover exactly what your phone knows about you.

Slightly sinisterly, your iPhone is always gathering data on you in the background — be it the apps you're using the most, how much data you're churning through... or even, most creepily, where you are. To see what we mean, head to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Frequent Locations. Here you can see not just where you've been, but how long you've spent in each place. Big Brother really is watching...

4. Replace a toolbox essential.

You've probably filed away the Compass app alongside the Stocks and Find Friends apps in a folder entitled 'Crap I can't delete'. You should pull it back out, though — it's got a secret second function that will help with your DIY duties. No: not using your iPhone to hammer in nails (although it can — briefly — do that too). Instead, swiping left in the Compass app brings up a very useful level — a digital bubble gauge than can check if that shelf really is level. (Spoiler: it isn't.)

5. Lock your camera's focal point.

We all know that tapping the screen while taking a photo will set the camera's point of focus, right? Good. Annoyingly though, every time you move the camera after picking a focal point, it disappears. Well, no more. Instead of just tapping the screen, press for a second or two until an 'AF Locked' box pops up. Now you can twist, turn and swing the thing around without losing focus.

6. Create custom vibrations.

Ever wished you could tell who's calling just by how your phone feels buzzing against your leg? Now you can: In Contacts, select your person of choice and hit Edit. Here you'll see a Vibration option. Selecting this will give you plenty of options, including the Create New Vibration tool. Making your bespoke buzz is as simple as tapping the screen to the beat of your choice.

7. Correct Siri's pronunciation.

Siri's a bit of a smug know-it-all — so  there's nothing better than calling it on its mistakes. Like when it mispronounces peoples' names like an ignorant American abroad. So if Siri says something wrong, just tell it. Following up a mistake by saying "That's not how you pronounce…" will see Siri ask for the correct pronunciation then let you check it's got things right. Because we all know it's Levi-O-sa, not Levi-o-SAR.

8. Close three apps at once.

It's not just pictures and web pages that support multi-finger gestures. You can throw additional digits into clearing up your iPhone clutter too. If you need to shut multiple applications in a hurry — for totally innocent, not hiding anything, honest reasons — you can drag three fingers up on the multitasking menu to cull the clutter quicker. Which means your phone should be faster in even less time.

9. Set your music on a timer.

Enjoy listening to a little soothing background music as you drift off to the Land of Nod? Then you're probably all too familiar with waking up at 3am to some unwanted tunes. Unless, of course, you set your music to turn off on a timer. In the Clock app, slide along to the Timer options. Here under the 'When Time Ends' tag, you can switch out the alarm option for a 'Stop Playing' tag. This will turn off the tunes, be it through Apple Music or Spotify, when the timer hits zero.

10. Take a photo without touching your phone.

An oldie but a goodie iPhone hack is using your volume control buttons to capture a picture — thus saving  your meaty paw blocking the screen as you attempt to hit the touchscreen controls. But if you prefer to be even further removed from your photo-capturing shutter controls? Hitting the volume button on a pair of compatible, connected headphones will have the same effect.

11. Save your data allowance by limiting app access.

You're just a third of the way through the month, and your 2GB data allowance is already starting to look a little stretched. You don't have to cut back on your on-the-go Netflix viewing though. Instead, select which apps get demoted to the Wi-Fi-only B-list. Go to Settings > Mobile Data where you can make the big decisions one app at a time.

12. Improve your battery life.

Spotlight, Apple's connected quick-access for key data and services, is great for offering instant access to the latest breaking news, sports scores and social updates. But that much stuff going on in the background can eat your battery life whole. Unless you turn off Spotlight features for certain apps to eke out more life per charge, that is. "How?" we hear you cry? Just go Settings > General > Spotlight Search and limit what's pulling in data behind your back.

13. Improve your signal by knowing where to look for it.

No need to hang out of a first floor window trying to discover where your iPhone's connection is best. Type *3001#12345#* into your iPhone's dialler and hit call to launch the hidden Field Mode tool. This sub-surface menu turns your bar chart-based signal indicator into a far more straightforward numerical-based signal signifier. Got a score of -50? Then you'll be enjoying HD video streams on the move. Down around -120, though, and you'll struggle to send a text. Just follow the numbers to better signals.

14. Use your phone like an Etch-a-Sketch to erase.

You might have already stumbled across this one in a fit of rage, but like your childhood etch-a-sketch, your recent iPhone activities can be erased simply by giving the thing a good ol' shake. Perfect for the plump of finger and poor of spelling, who want to skip the endless backspace bashing with a firm handset rattle. And if you're shivering rather than shaking? Don't worry: a pop-up will ensure you want to delete before erasing your typing.

15. Find out exactly how long you've been waiting for a reply.

We've all been there: endlessly rechecking our phones for a text reply, wondering how long it's been since we sent our message of love/ ransom demand. There's an easy way to find out, though - simply swipe in from the right-hand side of the screen when in a messaging thread, to show precise delivery times for every message sent and received. True: it's not as morale-beating as WhatsApp's blue ticks, but it will still give you a complex over why it's taking over 42 minutes for your other half to reply. Do affairs really take that long?

16. Share your family tree with Siri.

Does referring to your parents by their given name make you feel awkward? Then teach Siri to know who you're chatting about. Ask Siri to call your dad and the digital PA should ask who your father is. Once a contact has been assigned to the parental moniker, every time you ask for pops moving forward, you'll be backed up by simple, fuss-free calling.

17. Swipe right to retreat.

For iPhone-owning Android converts, living without a dedicated back button can be a difficult adjustment to make. While the iPhone might not have an ever-present command to put things in reverse, there is a simple way to head in the wrong direction. Within a number of apps — from Safari to Mail, via Messages — swiping from left to right on the screen will send you back to the previous page or menu. Who needs a dedicated button when you've got a more elegant solution?

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