[foobarian]

And you can't charge the phone while it's plugged in.

[jorvi]

You can if you order a Chinese splitter. All it does is split your lightning into two ports: the charging pins and all the other pins. Because the sound is sent digitally from your lighting port to the splitter, then digitally again to the lightning-to-3.5mm dongle you have no quality loss from a subpar splitter chip.

Edit: to be clear, this shouldn’t be needed, but alas, we cannot steer Apple.

[switch007]

iPhones have had wireless charging for a while though. Not as convenient of course.

[arvinsim]

For me, it’s more of a problem with my iPad Pro.

It’s not even about charging. It’s about having to buy a USB-C hub just to plug in my headphones and midi controller to my iPad Pro.

[sharatvir]

It’s possible if you use a wireless charger