OPSO Lightning to 3.5mm Adapter

Backstory: I’ve purchased no less than eight official Apple lightning to 3.5mm headphone adapters, so I’m quite familiar with their build quality and reliability. I use them every day on my motorcycle, which I imagine is hard on them given all the movement in my pocket. Inevitably, after a couple months or so, the connection on them begins to drop out occasionally and as time goes on it becomes worse until they won’t work at all anymore. At this point, I go to the Apple store and buy a couple more pairs. I was sick of buying Apple’s official adapters and figured it couldn’t hurt to try some 3rd party ones. Maybe they would last longer, and even if they didn’t, at least they would be cheaper. Looking around Amazon, there seem to be a lot of these 3rd party lightning to 3.5mm adapters with varying prices and mix of good and bad reviews, making it quite difficult to know which one to get. Well, I decided to try this one. Initial impressions of this adapter: Both ends of the adapter are made of metal and come with a protective plastic film (I may just leave this film on). Apple’s are plastic for comparison. The cable is slightly thicker than the Apple version, and the rubber housing near the ends (which I imagine is the point of failure on most of these adapters) is thicker and sturdier as well. Plugging it into my iPhone XS Max, the lightning port felt a bit more snug than the official Apple adapter and really stays in well, taking additional force to remove. For my uses, this is great as I would occasionally have the official adapter pull out from the phone if accidentally tugged. Time will tell if it lasts longer than the official adapter, but so far, the apparent build quality looks promising. I’ll update my review if the adapter begins to fail as the official Apple ones inevitably do. TLDR: Works with iPhone XS Max, better build quality than official Apple adapter, tighter fit (good), nice looking, and cheaper! Update: This adapter did last much longer than the official apple one. I think I made it to around 8 months of rough use before this one failed. Significantly better than the Apple adapters which I typically broke after a couple months max. If you’re even remotely careful with this one, I’d expect it to work indefinitely. Will certainly buy again!

Since Apple seems to hate its customers, this little dongle is a necessity for people who: A) Do not prefer bluetooth B) Do nor prefer earpods Luckily, this dongle works great for what it is. Sound quality is fine. My only (and trivial) gripes are that the the dongle length could be shorter (ps. I hate living in a world where 'dongle length' is a thing) and the cable feels a little flimsy. However the connectors on either end feel solid.

It worked but why apple why!?!

It works but after a month, it keeps randomly pausing my music and i have to keep replugging it in

I just bought a new iPhone 11 and was worried that I'd lose the ability to use my wired Bose headphones. I figured I'd give this a try and I'm glad I did. It worked immediately. My phone had no issues "accepting" it and the sound quality is outstanding. I take an hour or so bus ride home from the city every day and my "Transit Tunes" have not missed a beat. I highly recommend this adapter if you need to connect your jack to your iPhone 11.

This adapter is incredible. It doesn’t distort the sound at all. It’s VERY durable. I have used it every day for the last four months and I have a very active life. I have dropped my phone with it plugged in many times with no damage to the adapter. The volume and Siri button still work perfectly and so does the mic. With the new iPhone headphones being such crap this is a must have.

Does not into aux jack snuggly and falls out constantly

Works well as it should. I’ve attached one to each of my corded earphones. Still have consistently good sound and others hear me well through the mic. Seems well made and durable. So far I’ve only used it for about 3 months. I use it for several hours each day.