The fruity tax-dodging cargo cult has admitted that the Lightning headphones and 3.5mm-to-Lightning adapter Owners of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have found that if there’s no music playing and the screen is turned off for more than five minutes, the included Lightning headphones and the adapter will disable the inline controls.

The inline controls on Apple’s headphones and any pair you connect via the adapter allow to change tracks and adjust the volume. The same issue has been noticed if music is paused for five minutes. Apple said that it will issue a software update one of these days to fix it.

What is amusing is that this problem would not have happened had Jobs’ Mob tried to make its iPhone 7 look a bit different from the iPhone by removing the headphone jack. Now it seems that the technology not only offered users nothing, it has made the iPhone 7 into a buggy lemon.

This is the latest of a catalogue of faults on the iPhone 7 which so far include a hissing sound when working the A10 processor too hard and refusing to switch back on after being in airport mode and a faulty clock function .

Apple has so far avoided much criticism of its buggy phone because its main rival Samsung has problems of its own with batteries overheating on its Note 7.