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Removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus was just the start for Apple when it came to limiting options for the average user. By then, the only thing that consumers could rely on was to use the Lightning port for listening to music via an adapter or charge the device separately.

Though the iPhone X comes with the option to either wirelessly charge it through a charging pad or via a power brick, it could have possible that users only had the option to wirelessly charge the bezel-less flagship. Here is what prompted Apple to keep the Lightning port on the OLED-touting smartphone rather than removing it.