iPhone 7 owners 'drill holes for headphone socket' after prank video tip-off

Prank: The video has been viewed nearly 10 million times.
Taras Maksimuk/YouTube
Francesca Gillett26 September 2016

A prank video showing how to drill a hole in the new iPhone to create a DIY headphone socket has been viewed millions of times – leading some owners to destroy their £600 phones.

The video jokingly claims it has a “secret hack” to make a headphone jack on the new iPhone 7 model which was released earlier this month without the socket.

Ukranian prankster Taras Maksimuk, who goes by the name of TechRax, posted the video on YouTube and it has since been watched by nearly 10 million people.

It shows a man clamping the phone into a vice before drilling a 3.5 mm hole into the bottom left edge of the device.

The video suggests drilling into the second hole on the left reveals a hidden socket.

It then shows music playing from the iPhone model – although the sound is actually coming out of the speakers.

But some ill-informed iPhone users have complained at Californian-based Ukranian YouTuber Mr Maksimuk after following the video’s advice.

One angry person messaged him to say: “AppleCare doesn’t even cover that, thanks a lot.”

Apple’s latest iPhone was the first model not to have a headphone socket and instead only has the usual lightning port, used to connect the device to computers.

Mr Maksimuk self-styles himself as specialising in "smashing technology for your pleasure”.

He has so far posted seven separate videos showing him destroying iPhone 7s – including microwaving the device and immersing it in liquid nitrogen.

But some hapless iPhone owners – who were likely to have paid £600 and upwards for their new models – angrily commented on the YouTube video and have complained to the YouTube star.

Someone called Sinus Plexus posted: “Help! Now my old headphones fit in but the phone doesn't work anymore!”

Another angry owner commented: “My screen turned black the moment I started drilling and now I can't even open it.”

Adambsk8 said: “I followed all the steps you said and it won't even turn back on. Do I gotta update it or download the headphone jack app?”

Mr Maksimuk said on Twitter: "Legit people complaining to me about them drilling the iPhone 7 for a headphone jack."

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