Because I hear this less and less, your comment does stand out - what really piques my curiosity. Could you share your primary motivation for wanting an analogue audio jack? Like you do you have some great old headphones, or is there some other compelling reasons that I don't know about? No reason is silly, it's just something I'm really curious about because I come from the other side where I moved to wireless long before the jack was removed.

I can barely keep my own phone charged. Yet one more thing that needs charging is a huge turn-off.

The latency on bluetooth is killer. I guess most people don't notice, but I notice. There's a irritating delay between every action, and when watching video the sound is noticeably behind.

There is often interference when in frequency-heavy zones. Busy pedestrian intersections, trains, using the microwave.

I switch between devices with regularity. My computer, my phone, my corporate phone. Keeping one set of headphones paired between multiple devices is a nightmare.

I don't like keeping bluetooth on. Why do I need to place yet one more source of power drain on my devices, and why do I need to enable yet another broadcasting signal from them?

Dollar-for-dollar, lower cost wired headphones are higher quality than wireless ones.

I am prone to losing headphones, having them be miniaturized and untethered is not a bonus. Heaven forbid they're not even bound together and are instead individual unconnected earbuds. I can count in the double digits the number of people I've seen before my very eyes lose one half of their earbuds, to say nothing of the number of people I've encountered who are just dealing with losing one of them from some prior event.

Bluetooth headphones are a product with value, but not to me. Not having a headphone jack felt, and continues to feel, like a heavy handed bitch slap straight to my face every single day.

Bluetooth headsets aren't the only option. I just use an adapter for my headphones.

For me that is yet another thing I can lose. And I havent found a single one with a decent DAC that isn't huge.

DAC circuitry is a solved problem, any USB-C DAC will do. Apple makes one. Even their lightning adapter got good reviews.

They are $10 each. They can be attached to the end of your headphones and forgotten about.

The USB DAC i got with the iPad is not great. I have tried a couple on my phone, and about half of them are actually not great.

Even worse: cheap usb c headphones all have shit DACs and will perform worse than cheap 3.5mm headphones.

I've seen analysis that says the lightning dac from Apple is actually great: https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...

The latency drives me crazy (although some BT5 headphones are getting close to 30ms). The airpods I have tested have all had noticeable (definitely over 100ms in perfect conditions) latency. Some people don't notice it, but it drives me crazy. Especially when talking on the phone.

The audio quality of airpods is still subpar compared to $70 wired headphones.

I listen a lot to classical music and airpods 2 still makes becken (two cymbals smashed together. Don't know the English name) sound like someone throwing a rock into a pool.

I lose several pairs of headphones every year. Headphones being smaller is not a feature for me.

I have one pair of BT headphones. They have about 90ms latency, which is borderline intolerable (but better than every airpod). I use them for podcasts.

I plug my phone into speakers all the time (at work. I am a musician). A 3.5mm jack makes that a non-thinking operation.

Not OP, but I used to use a decent pair of wired, in-ear headphones with the male Lightning to female 3.5mm adaptor since I found wireless headphone quality during that time to be subpar up until the airpod pros came out. I still had a lot of issues with this configuration however as the adapter was flimsy and would break frequently, and since the DAC was now placed in the adapter itself, the audio quality was noticeably worse than in the previous 3.5mm models. But even with good bluetooth headphones, bluetooth just doesn’t have enough bandwidth to listen to music at high fidelity.

I used to be in the same boat until i finally bit the bullet and got a phone without a headphone port, but i wish i didnt have to. I don't like using a dongle, for example its easy to lose them when you detach it from the headphones to plug them into your laptop. Charging headphones seems silly to me, wired is more convenient, you can replace the wires and you're not limited to crappy Bluetooth headphone quality

You could also buy an original Display from ifixit and just repair it. https://www.ifixit.com/products/google-pixel-5-screen-genuin...

I felt the same way, until I got an iPhone without it. It’s truly unnecessary in 2023. If you really need a headphone jack, the adapters work great.

Otherwise, AirPods are 100x better than wired.

AirPods are not 100x better than wired. If you are not bothered by latency or audio quality, great for you. I usually don't mind audio quality, but the latency drives me insane. My wired headphones have 25ms latency. In perfect conditions airpods2 have 5x that paired with an iPhone. The only times it does not bother me is when listening to podcasts.

The DAC in the dongle I got with my iPad pro is noticeably worse than my pixel 5a.