Numerous reports have suggested the upcoming iPhone 7 will drop the 3.5mm headphone port, and now Fast Company claims that will indeed be the case. The publication also claims the newest iPhone will be waterproof, as some have suggested. Additionally, the report claims the upcoming phone “will very likely support wireless charging.” A source told Fast Company that Apple will work with its audio chip partner Cirrus Logic to adapt the iPhone audio chipset to work with the Lightning port. The iPhone will also use some kind of noise-cancelling technology — the tech will reportedly enable Apple’s newest phone to remove background noise in both music playback and phone calls.
The source also believes that Apple will sell a pair of noise-cancelling Lightning earphones separately, rather than packaging it in with the iPhone. Regarding the waterproofing feature, Fast Company’s report does come with the caveat that Apple could pull waterproofing “very late in the development process,” as has happened before.
