Apple knew that it would face an avalanche of criticism when it chose to get rid of the 3.5 mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus and so it must have made sure that the new AirPods it was plugging as the future worked as advertised.
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The music continues to play but the volume controls, answering calls and Siri dependent features become useless. It can be temporarily fixed by unplugging the EarPods and then attaching them again. It could be an intentional function created to prevent Lightning accessories from draining the phone’s power when inactive.
The inline controls on Apple’s headphones and any pair you connect via the adapter allow to change tracks and adjust the volume.
Without a 3.5mm jack, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users must use Lightning headphones or the included 3.5mm-to-Lightning adapter. It would seem very likely that the fix will come in an iterative software update for iOS 10 as soon as Apple can find a quick solution to the issue.
The problem is unique to the iPhone 7 as it does not happen on an iPhone 6s.
Apple hasn’t said anything publicly about the issues that users have brought up, but it has alerted service providers to instruct customers to restart their phones and pop their SIM cards in and out to fix the problems. Users who want to use the iPhone 7 with gloves have only one option-use your nose-or tweak the settings in the Accessibility options to add a button on the home screen.
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While Apple has not yet commented on the reason for the hissing sound, it could be due to the high-capacity performance of the new Apple A10 chip.
