Yeah, anyone foolish enough.... and the world is overflowing with nutjobs who'd bugger up good tech on poor... read very bad suggestions.

And no, they don't have to be iPhone users.  I also read about the bloke who put his Samsung 7 phone in the freezer because somebody put it online that it would prevent the battery from exploding.  Not only did his phone not work again, the battery still exploded anyway.  Best thing would have been to submit the unit to the well publicised factory recall, but some will always take the foolish option because they saw the 'answer' online.

Still, it is so, so laughable that anybody would fall for such an 'out there idea'.

Quoting LightStar,

reply 3

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. 

How true.... and genius usually knows when to stop.  The opposite is rarely true.

I recall when stupidity ruled my life.... I married 3 times.

I never became a genius, but I knew when to stop... at 3rd time unlucky.

Still, I have no regrets.... just some memories I can do without.

As for the iPhone 7, I have an 11 year old granddaughter who wants one for Christmas.  Yeah right, like her mother could afford a AUD$1200 phone.  With other priorities and 4 other kids it just ain't happening.  If a phone is in the offing, and that's a big if, it'll be a $50 supermarket job that's linked to one of the major telcos.

Me, I've still got my Nokia Lumia 820 from about 8 -9 years ago.  I'm of the philosophy, if it still works don't buy a new one... tho I do have a ZTE with Android that I picked up for $45 as a 'just-in-case'. 

You know for about $8 bucks you can buy a dongle that has a Lightning Port to 3.5mm Female Audio Jack Headphone Cable Adapter.     

 https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Headphone-Adapter-Stouch-Adapter/dp/B01LSTJ3J0

Talk about idiots...seriously...some guy, whom no one knows, gets online and tells them to drill a hole in their phones.

And they did it! Then the fools actually post how stupid and angry they are that they bricked their phones!

“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” ― H.L. Mencken, Gist of Mencken

We should ask him to make no posts about how to fly by gluing feathers on one's arms and eating bird food, or soon it will be raining bloated idiots.  

Alternatively...he might "teach" folks how to cure headaches permanently by drilling holes in their heads.

As I understand it, that dongle is included in the box with a new iPhone 7.

Maybe if we told these folk their stupidity could be cured by drilling a hole in their head they would actually do it!