Apple was planning to omit this feature from the iPhone X

Apple is known to make drastic shifts in the smartphone market, not following the Android flock and adding/omitting features based on their own line of thought. It had the ‘courage’ to eliminate the 3.5mm headphone jack from its iPhone 7 back in 2016, followed by the TouchID sensor with the iPhone X. But there was one more feature that was supposed to have seen its end with the ‘X’ – lightning port.

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Apple is known to make drastic shifts in the smartphone market, not following the Android flock and adding/omitting features based on their own line of thought. It had the ‘courage’ to eliminate the 3.5mm headphone jack from its iPhone 7 back in 2016, followed by the TouchID sensor with the iPhone X. But there was one more feature that was supposed to have seen its end with the ‘X’ – lightning port.