![]() ![]() Testing confirms that the port - like the ones in most of Apple’s recent docks - mirrors the connected iPhone’s own headphone port, adjusting volume upwards and downwards rather than staying fixed at peak output. ![]() A quick check of the included manual shows that the port is intended for “an Apple headset,” and apparently is the reason the iPhone Lightning Dock requires at least iOS 8 to work fully. In addition to a pass-through Lightning port on the back, which you use to connect a cable for syncing and/or charging, there’s a 3.5mm audio port labelled with a headphone icon. The iPhone Lightning Dock has one arguable advantage over third-party rivals. Since nearly 80% of iPhone owners use cases, many people will consider this to be a welcome improvement. But there’s notably no recessed “well,” front lip, or other support for the device besides the strength of the Lightning plug that sticks up from the roughly 2.6″ by 1.9″ by 0.3″ glossy plastic base.ĭefying Apple’s past Lightning accessory guidelines, which called for a surrounding support platform roughly as large as the abandoned Dock Connector plug - an unnecessary design requirement that helped to kill the third-party Lightning accessory market - the integrated Lightning connector’s soft plastic base measures a mere 12 millimeters in width and 6 millimeters in depth. Though it will come as no surprise to users of third-party docks that have depended on elevated Apple cables to achieve the same function, this nub simultaneously enables the Lightning plug to connect with and support encased devices. ![]() Unlike its earlier Lightning docks for iPhones, Apple has pared down the iPhone Lightning Dock to the barest essentials. Made mostly from glossy white plastic, it has a gray rubber bottom with an embossed Apple logo, just like past iPad, iPhone, and iPod docks.
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