Worried about charging your iPhone 7 whilst playing music? 

With the new iPhone set to remove the headphone jack I’ve seen a lot of people concerned it’ll mean they can’t charge their phone whilst listening to music due to the dependancy on lightning headphones.

For the last year the Griffin iTrip Aux AutoPilot car charger has allowed you to connect just the lightning port to your iPhone and will charge your phone and supply audio through its inbuilt aux output:

Simply connect the Lightning connector to your iPhone, iPad or iPod and connect the AUX plug to the AUX-in jack on your car stereo.

Griffin Aux Lightning Car Charger

Whilst we make the transition to wireless this shows it is possible to charge and listen at the same time – we just need to wait for third party hardware to support it outside of the car…