[hbn]

I swear AirPods in general are just less reliable than they used to be too. I feel like I need to be doing incantations for them to work sometimes, whereas I recall them feeling like magic compared to BT headphones I've used in the past, the way they would seamlessly pair, start/stop music when you pull one out, etc.

It reminds me of some discussion I was seeing the other day about how the dynamic island on the newer iPhones is way buggier than it was at launch. Someone suggested that this happens because the S-tier engineers are tasked with building these things to blow everyone out of the water at launch, and then B-tier developers are tasked with maintaining them for the following years, at which point stuff starts regressing.

[doublerabbit]

Build quality too.

My iPhone XR that I am deliberately keeping on lower iOS for jail breaking reasons that when comparing the thunderbolt port to the iPhone 13.

The quality lacks so much that I am unable to listen to music with a wired headphone adapter.

Any slight jiggle of the adapter will cause it to disconnect. I don't want to use BT headphones.

[kiririn]

Lightning ports very rarely fail or get loose - it’s more robust than usb-c in that regard, which is already a high bar - it’s probably dust in the port

[doublerabbit]

Not at all. I've cleaned, air-dusted it. The phone is six months old. I've taken it to the Apple store and they won't do anything.

And now that they've disconnected the thunder-bolt adapter too.

I know the quality is less than my XR. I own both and I have a box of three thunder bolt to audio cables, all have the same issues.