Please don't drill a hole in your new iPhone 7
If you're an owner of a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus, here's a quick PSA for you: things aren't going to end well if you try to make a DIY headphone jack.
Last week, YouTuber TechRax made a tongue-in-cheek video demonstrating a "secret hack" that brings back the iPhone's headphone jack. (Spoiler: it involves a 3.5mm drill bit.)
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However, it appears that some people who watched didn't catch on to the true nature of the video and thought this was something that might actually work. The comments section is filled with panicked people, outraged that they fell for the "prank."
Of course, this has only made the video go more viral and brought out even more trolls who are offering their own "helpful" suggestions, including microwaving and dunking their phones in warm water.
While it's difficult to say how many people have actually fallen for the video — this is the Internet, after all — the number of comments suggest that at least a few have attempted the "hack." And while this is not the first time tricksters have pranked iPhone owners into destroying their phones (remember the hoax that claimed you could charge your iPhone by microwaving it) this might be the most cringey one yet.
TL;DR: Do not drill a hole in your iPhone 7. It will break and people will laugh atyou. Just use the dongle.
Oh come on, don't post this... if someone is dense enough to drill a hole in their phone we should let them. It's comical and might inject some sense into senseless people.
ReplyDeletePeople cannot be this goddam stupid. If they are, I have a microwave iPhone charger to sell them.
ReplyDeleteMaybe people are doing this because many sites, including Mashable, posted an article about this "hack" without having any note in there that it's meant as a joke? In fact, you straight up said that the hack works. http://mashable.com/.../iphone-7-make-your-own.../...
ReplyDeletePeople aren't ''accidentally destroying'' their iPhones...
ReplyDeleteThey are drilling into them, on purpose- with no technical know-how.
Don't bail out stupid by calling it an accident.
If you're stupid enough to fall for this, or the microwave thing, or the pool temperature thing.... you deserve a $600 paperweight.
ReplyDeletebut it works, people that video is real.. they only hid the headphone jack with plastic and that's the place you should drill if you want to use your old headphones again :)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone who has tried drilling into their iPhone, has tried a spot of trepanning. Not that they should worry about drilling into their forehead... if they've already turned their new phone into a paperweight there's nowt between their ears anyway
ReplyDeleteConsidering you advertised this as a real story .. posting this is just hypocritical.. don't you think. While I understand you've got to be something special to actually go through with it.
ReplyDeleteUgh. Can't people think for themselves without others having to clue them in? What happened to common sense And people ability to understand humor? Guess we can thank family guy and south park.
ReplyDeleteif you are dumb enough to buy this phone , you are dumb enough to destroy it , its somewhere between karma and natural selection
ReplyDeleteIt's not accidental if they are stupid enough to try this. It's called Darwinism... weeds out thr stupid. They should feel very stupid for trying this and deserve to have their phones destroyed at their own stupid hands.
ReplyDeleteI've been able to get the headphone jack back with an hammer drill, so please stop misinforming people.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny! But wasn't isn't is the poor service and no service issues I am having with my 7 ... anyone else having lower bars and poor service?
ReplyDeleteI don't find tricking especially gullible people into ruining things they probably worked a lot of hours to buy especially funny. Why are so many people mean spirited?
ReplyDeletei like how you post this article after i followed your previous one and ruined my phone. no one at your company will respond to my many attempts at contacting you guys for reimbursement of my new iphone 7 that is now ruined
ReplyDeleteOnce you drill the hole, you can no longer use the pool chlorine level and temperature check features on the phone.
ReplyDeleteOh boy, so not only do these morons camp in line for days for these things, now this.. Some winner iPhone clientele right here..
ReplyDeleteit has bluetooth and an adapter for an 1/8" jack, what is so hard to figure out about that, its not a modular synthesizer now is it?
ReplyDeleteI thought they said IPhone owners are supposed to be smarter Humm
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