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1. Bluetooth headphones require extra charging. I'm always looking around for somewhere to plug in my phone AND my bluetooth headphones. And no, I don't want to buy Apple's easily-losable ear bud things. Since the batteries may die on my bluetooth headphones, I always still have to carry around the original headphones that came with my iPhone, leading to extra cord/dongle #1.

2. Bluetooth headphones require a cord that isn't the same as the one on my iPhone. Extra cord/dongle #2 to take with me everywhere.

3. My traveling Bose noise-canceling wired headphones require the carrying of extra cord/dongle #3 to take with me everywhere.

4. Bluetooth headphones don't interface in situations like that healthclub exercise bike I want to plug into. Neither do the standard iPhone headphones that come with the iPhone 7. So I need to carry extra cord/dongle #4 with me everywhere.

5. Bluetooth headphone batteries eventually stop working. I was making due with going mostly wireless for about 2 months and then the headphones I bought stopped working. Judging from Amazon reviews, people don't get a lot of life out of these little rechargeable devices - whereas normally the wired headphones I get with an iPhone last me for the life of the phone.

6. On the iPhone 7, at least, the headphones go into the combination charging/headphone jack. That means that I need extra cord/dongle #5 with me because of items #1 and #3 above.

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Reasons I hate wired headphones:

1. I have to carry around a mass of wire that it always getting tangled with its self and other items in bags and pockets.

2. I have to fiddle around to plug a port into my phone, that often scratches the surrounding material.

3. I have a port that gets full of lint and I have to pick it out.

4. The headphone cord gets caught on things and rips the headphones out of my ears.

5. When ever I knock the cable it amplifies the noise into my ears (isolating earbuds).

6. The little remote dongle gets caught on my collar or buttons and rips the headphones out of my ears.

7. When I jog I get a cable bounding up and down, often tugging on my ears.

8. If I just want to use one bud, I have to have the other dangling around.

9. If I want to switch between devices I have to manually plug in and out, often scrabbling around on the floor for a desktop computer.

10. Cable connections ware, and can result in audio only coming out of one ear.

I have a set of wireless headphones that use the same cable to charge as my phone. I charge my phone once a day when I sleep, and my headphones about once a week. If I want to use wired headphone I have them permanently plugged into a free dongle that came with my phone, but I haven't in months... they are in my bag... tangling stuff...

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You understand that having a jack doesn't mean you can't use wireless, right? Glad you like wireless, but (obviously), not everyone feels the way you do.

I know, I was just adding balance.

People loved and still miss Micro SD slots on phones too.

1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 are not even valid complaints. Nothing prevents you from using wireless headsets if you want to. 2 and 3 both exist with USB c and lightning connectors, for charging if nothing else and are both remedied with an inexpensive but still decent quality case.

I use BT headsets in my phone when I run for the same reason you do, but my phone certainly doesn't last a full day running BT, nor does anyone I know tbh. Sounds like your phone is magic, or you're not using your BT often as it's a power hog on every phone I've used. I believe you're not being disingenuous, but it's not a standard experience for most people.

iPhone 7+ with AirPods, perhaps it's the BT LE or something?

I also forgot the worst point, when the headphone cord gets caught and rips the 3.5mm jack out of my device resulting in it blurting out (my secret love of the Moana soundtrack) at full volume to a train carriage of commuters...

There's nothing wrong with the Moana soundtrack, you're welcome. Also, the headphones getting ripped out of the ear is unpleasant I agree with you there.

The music stops when you pull out the headphones...

If we switch to a universal charging port like usb-c and then every audio device starts supporting Bluetooth, things will get better. Yeah, you'll still need 2 places to charge devices instead of one though, which is a pain

You don't have to use Bluetooth for the iPhone. You can either use Apple's included headphones that connect to the lightning port or your own headphones with the included lightning adapter.

And then you still need to have a combo charging adapter so you can talk/listen while charging, plus the 8mm headphones for exercise equipment, plus the adapter for my wired Bose headphones.

So it's still a pain, although the main thrust of my post was that if you try going Bluetooth like vendors seem to want us to do, you still need lots of cords.