--- title: Stephen Colbert: Late Night Pokes Fun at iPhone 7 description: Colbert’s iFriend could dramatically change the way we use Apple’s tech canonical: https://time.com/4483757/stephen-colbert-apple-iphone-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-08T15:32:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:18.655Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Has A Few Improvements For The iPhone 7 og:description: Colbert’s iFriend could dramatically change the way we use Apple’s tech og:url: https://time.com/4483757/stephen-colbert-apple-iphone-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Has A Few Improvements For The iPhone 7 twitter:description: Colbert’s iFriend could dramatically change the way we use Apple’s tech twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Wants to Make the Apple iPhone 7 Even More Groundbreaking by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 8, 2016 3:32 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 8, 2016 3:32 PM UTC Apple shook up the tech world yesterday with [its announcement](http://time.com/4480610/apple-iphone-7-plus-release-date-price-specs/?xid=homepage) about all the massive overhaul the tech company is giving its iPhone. After [Twitter got done roasting](http://time.com/4482851/apple-iphone-7-wireless-headphones-internet-reaction/) Apple’s controversial decision to remove the iPhone’s headphone jack, it was late night’s turn and Stephen Colbert jumped on the chance to poke fun at the change. “We have removed the headphone jack, we also got rid of the home button,” asked Colbert, channeling his inner Apple CEO Tim Cook. Those weren’t the only changes, though, because Colbert’s vision for the iPhone 7 were even more groundbreaking: “If less is more, how much more could we less?” he asked. He then unveiled his take on the next wave of technology (“It’s quite simply a solid chunk of metal,” he said) as well as the iPhone’s latest feature, the iFriend, that makes it easy to access all of the iPhone’s best features. Watch below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4483757/stephen-colbert-apple-iphone-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4483757/stephen-colbert-apple-iphone-video/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Wants to Make the Apple iPhone 7 Even More Groundbreaking","datePublished":"2016-09-08T15:32:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:18.655Z","description":"Colbert’s iFriend could dramatically change the way we use Apple’s tech","url":"https://time.com/4483757/stephen-colbert-apple-iphone-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Apple","Steve Jobs","Tim cook","stephen colbert","iphone 7"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4483757/stephen-colbert-apple-iphone-video/","name":"Stephen Colbert Wants to Make the Apple iPhone 7 Even More Groundbreaking"}}]}] ```