New iPods - no headphone output?

[richardfinegold]

No, the latest iPod model was introduced in 2015...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iPod_models

That was what I had thought. When I bought the new iPhone I was told the reason that the old headphone jack was abandoned was because if water got in the opening of the old socket, the phone was ruined. The new phones are supposedly water proof, not that I will intentionally will test the validity of the claim.
When cell phones first became ubiquitous, I had a few people tell me that they had dropped them in the toilet. I sneered at them—Do they have to be talking in that location?—until of course I did it myself. I was at home, playing telephone tag with a Consultant Colleague about a sick hospitalized patient, when he finally called me back as I was standing over the bowl. When I reached for the flip phone in my pocket, it landed there.
If I recall, the Patient had a better outcome than the phone

[Bryn]

That was what I had thought. When I bought the new iPhone I was told the reason that the old headphone jack was abandoned was because if water got in the opening of the old socket, the phone was ruined. The new phones are supposedly water proof, not that I will intentionally will test the validity of the claim.
When cell phones first became ubiquitous, I had a few people tell me that they had dropped them in the toilet. I sneered at them—Do they have to be talking in that location?—until of course I did it myself. I was at home, playing telephone tag with a Consultant Colleague about a sick hospitalized patient, when he finally called me back as I was standing over the bowl. When I reached for the flip phone in my pocket, it landed there.
If I recall, the Patient had a better outcome than the phone

Sony resolved that problem several generations of the Xperia Z back, in 2013, and still managed to retain the headphone socket. A simple flexible plastic cover keeps water out when there is no plug in the socket, otherwise the plug itself does an adequate job as long as the phone is recovered fairly quickly from the watrery depths. I have had mine since its launch in the UK and never had a problem with water ingress, despite even forgetting to take it from its non-water resistant carry case strung around my neck when going for a swim once.

[richardfinegold]

Sony resolved that problem several generations of the Xperia Z back, in 2013, and still managed to retain the headphone socket. A simple flexible plastic cover keeps water out when there is no plug in the socket, otherwise the plug itself does an adequate job as long as the phone is recovered fairly quickly from the watrery depths. I have had mine since its launch in the UK and never had a problem with water ingress, despite even forgetting to take it from its non-water resistant carry case strung around my neck when going for a swim once.

My iPhone 6 had a little rubber dinghy thing to cover the opening, but if user elects not to tightly fasten it, then not much point