More adapters at ridiculous prices, it never ends. I would hope the USB-C to lightning adapters soon to be sold at Dollar Tree stores will work, knowing proprietary marketing I doubt it. Apple is late to the party, I would bet that there is some inbuilt trickery in this adapter that recognizes it’s authenticity.
It’s timeless and perhaps an obvious one (& perhaps not so clever), but the iPod used to always sort out situations where we never had a DJ or any music available. Gotta say RIP those innovative days for Apple, nothing was cooler than being an instant DJ while working as line cook having 160 gigs of music on a device.