There has been plenty written about just what as Apple thinking when they decided to recess the iPhone’s headphone jack. And there have been plenty of manufacturers who have stepped up to offer solutions to allow existing headphones to work by the use of a simple adapter. Problem I have with that is many of those adapters are priced from $4 to $40. FORTY bucks for an adapter? I don’t care if it made sliced bread as well. On top of added cost of these adapters even the best of them have one big drawback, you have a much larger piece of plastic sticking out of your phone. It seems a bit silly to care about the cost considering the price of the phone or worry about the piece of extended plastic but I do. So I thought about it for a few minutes and figured what if I simply sliced off a bit of the offending plastic that prevented the headphones from being inserted into the hole. Googled “iphone modify headphones” to see if anyone else had written about the same thing and one of the top hits summed up exactly what I was thinking. So far I’ve modified a pair of Bose and Sony headphones. The surgery won’t work on my Shure’s E3’s though since where the plastic flares out on them right at the same place where the metal does as well. 2 out of 3 is not so bad.