Did you recently update your iPhone’s or another iDevice’s to the iOS latest version? And now, ever since that update, you can’t get ANY sound out of your iPhone’s speakers. Your iDevice seems to be stuck in some sort of “headphones mode” and only plays sound out of a pair of plugged-in headphones!
Sometimes your iPhone gets stuck in headphones mode and prevents you from hearing any sound. Your iPad, iPod, or iPhone mistakenly acts as if headphones or earbuds are plugged in, and now your iPhone’s stuck.
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QuickTips
How do I get my iPhone out of headphone mode? Start Simple!
First, let’s start really simple and try this one out: just go to Settings, Sounds & Haptics, then to Ringtone. Try different ringtones and see if your speakers and sound works again.
Clean your headphone or lightning port, making sure it’s clean and free of lint and other debris
Try connecting and then immediately disconnect a Bluetooth speaker or other BT device
Turn on Airplane Mode
Fire up a music app
Make an audio recording using apps like Voice Memos
If you connect to a Bluetooth Speaker, charge it up and see if that unsticks headphones mode
Also, make sure your battery has a charge of at least 30%. If less than that, charge it and see if the power level was the problem.
Finally, close all your open applications by double-tapping Home or swiping up the Home Gesture Bar and then swiping up to close each and every app. Then restart your iPhone by pressing and holding the power button.
If you do not see the on-screen notice for headphones, but your iPhone or iDevice’s speaker isn’t producing any sound, check the following things first!
Check that you set your Mute switch to the off position
If your device has a Ring/Silent switch, move the switch so that orange isn’t showing
Open Settings > Do Not Disturb and check that Do Not Disturb is off
Turn volume all the way up via side volume button or Settings > Sounds > Ringer and Alerts Slider
Drag the Ringer And Alerts slider up or down a few times and see if this makes any difference
Try adjusting the volume with the slider in Control Center
Check that Settings > Sounds > Change with Buttons is toggled on
Make sure AirPlay is not sending your audio to another source
Go to Settings > Bluetooth and turn off Bluetooth
No Headphones Jack But Still Stuck in Headphones Mode?
Yes, your lightning headphones also get stuck into Headphones Mode! And a lot of other issues happen to our lightning ports–well, they are used for pretty much everything these days!
Unplug your Headphones
If you see the icon below when you adjust the volume buttons, there may be debris in the headset port.
To remove, unplug then re-plug headphones several times (at least 7-8 times).
Then perform a hard restart of your iPhone (pressing and holding both home and power or if no mechanical home button, volume down and power until the Apple logo appears on-screen.)
Some users have reported that they fixed this problem successfully by using a hair dryer or sucking (hard) on the headphone port.
You may also want to use a toothpick or a Q-Tip and clean the port to remove any remaining dirt/particles.
For the Q-Tip make sure you pull off most of the cotton so that it will fit the port snugly. But make sure you don’t push it into the point where the Q-Tip gets stuck!
With the Q-Tip inside the jack, rotate it a few times to release anything that’s lodged inside.
If you try a hairdryer, make sure you blast the phone jack with the hair dryer on cold setting if available or the lowest temperature setting on your hairdryer.
Always make sure you turn your phone off before taking any of the steps listed above.
Try A Bluetooth Speaker
Try connecting your iDevice to a Bluetooth speaker or Bluetooth headphones, then disconnected it. See if that works in getting your headphones mode unstuck!
Check Some Settings
Tucked away in Accessibility is a setting called “Call Audio Routing.” This setting determines where you hear audio coming from during phone calls and FaceTime audio calls. Sound familiar?
So let’s check these settings. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility and scroll down to the section titled “Interaction.”
Continue to scroll until you find Call Audio Routing. It should list “Automatic.” If it doesn’t, tap it and select Automatic from the list.
If it does already say “Automatic,” try setting it to Speaker.
Now test it out by placing a call or FaceTime audio call.
See if your speaker now works. If so, go back to this same setting and change it back to “Automatic.”
Toggling this setting mode may help get your iPhone unstuck from headphones mode.
Try AirPlane Mode
Switch to Airplane mode for a minimum of 15 minutes. Go to Settings > Airplane Mode and toggle it on. Wait for 15 minutes or more and then switch it off and see if your speakers are working again.
Record a Sound
A lot of folks find that their iPhones and iPads get unstuck from headphones mode after making an audio recording with their devices. Use an audio recording app like Voice Memos or fire up Garage Band, even shoot a video using your camera app.
Use whatever recording app you like and give it a try and see if this tip works for you!
Blow into the headphone jack
Before you use a compressed air machine or canned air to blow it into your iPhone’s headphone jack, get a flashlight and see if there is anything stuck inside.
If something is noticeable, take it out. Now, carefully and gently blow air right into the headphone’s jack. That should remove any small particles. If it doesn’t, try and blow a little harder.
Or get a spray can of industrial strength “Dust Off” or similar. These products are usually used to clean computer keyboards and other electronics.
Luckily, the small plastic straw attachment fits into the headphone jack almost perfectly. Blast some air in there for a few seconds and check and see if your audio is back into working order.
A couple of our readers even used a small vacuum cleaner to suck the headphone plug outlet. And wouldn’t you know, it worked! Just be very careful. And make sure you stick with a small vacuum–do not use any industrial or commercial types!
Use (or Make) a Tool
Some users find that an interdental brush helps to clean out any dirt and dust from the headphone jack. You find interdental brushes in almost any grocery store or drug store.
Remember to clean with a light touch, just brushing the insides of the headphone jack. When you add a bit of rubbing alcohol to the brush, you help to remove anything that’s stuck stubbornly on. Use just a little bit and make sure your phone is off before inserting any tool into the headphone jack.
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Another method is to make your own and very small lint brush by using a paperclip and some transparent tape. Bend the paperclip straight and wrap the paperclip’s tip with the transparent tape, sticky side facing outwards.
Make sure you wrap the tape tightly around the paperclip. Gently insert the sticky tip into the headphone jack, lightly pressing it side to side to pick up whatever dust and dirt are there.
Remember to turn off your phone before you try this and always use the lightest of touch.
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Alternatively, roll a small piece of tape inside out with the sticky part on the outside. Gently insert this rolled tape into the headphone jack port and press it side to side. Leave plenty of it hanging out of the jack, so it’s easy to remove.
Another reader realized that on the inside of the jack port there is a tiny, pinhead-sized silver pressure button.
This particular iFolk found that this pressure button often gets stuck with humidity, grime, dust, you name it! So try a little light scraping with a safety pin followed by a swab with just a bit of alcohol fixed this problem.
Try Some Music or Another App
Some readers report that playing music worked for them with iTunes, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify…you get the drift. Play music on any music related app, even YouTube!
First plug in your headphones or earbuds, open iTunes and play any song or audio program. Let your iPhone screen lock automatically. Then unlock your phone, close iTunes by double clicking home and swiping upwards.
Follow this by unplugging your headphones. Open YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, or similar and play something. Turn the volume all the way up and check if the speakers work again! If so, open other apps and verify that the apps and your ringer work too.
Did your iPhone get wet? Is your iPhone stuck in headphones mode due to water damage?
Accidentally dropping your iPhone in liquid or getting too much water or other liquid on your device can cause your iPhone to have speaker problems and get stuck in headphones mode.
First, locate your iPhone’s moisture sensor and look for a red circle or red line.
Inspect the Water Damage Indicator
You can tell if your iPhone has water or liquid damage by checking its liquid contact indicator (LCI) on the side of your iPhone. It’s usually just inside the SIM slot.
If your iPhone has been in contact with a liquid, the LCI turns red. If it’s white or silver, good news! Your phone does not have water damage!
Is there water damage to your iPhone?
If there is some water damage, the most important thing is to completely dry your iPhone as soon as possible–immediately!
It’s important to clean and dry that headphone jack as well as the rest of the phone. Take a Q-Tip or absorbent cloth and gently insert it into the headphone jack or lightning port to soak up any trapped water.
If you don’t want to insert anything into the jack or port, try instead using a hairdryer on the cool setting or a fan to evaporate any water.
You can’t fool Apple!
If you bring in your water damaged iPhone, and an Apple Tech see that your LCI is red, they won’t repair it or replace it under your active warranty.
Reset your iPhone and BackUp
Some users found it helpful to turn off their iOS device and then turn it back On. If those solutions don’t work out for you, this method might help. Give it a try and let us know what’s going on.
Another reader reports success just by manually backing up her iDevice via iCloud. After backing up to iCloud, she discovered that her iPhone wasn’t stuck in headphones mode anymore.
So try and test this one tip out too.
And if you backup via iTunes, it potentially works for that backup method as well.
Ease on Down the Road to Your Apple Store
If you still have this problem, it’s time to contact Apple support or visit your nearest Apple Store.
You might need your headphone jack replaced, usually part of the dock assembly (often the docks cable), Lightning connector, and headphone jack assembly, or lightning port if iPhone 7 or higher.
This repair you might be able to do on your own, DYI. It all depends on your phone model.
If you want to attempt this replacement, make sure you know your model number and then do a web search for replacing the dock assembly or Lightning connector and headphone jack assembly for that particular iPhone or another iDevice model.
How to turn off headphone mode on Android phones
This isn’t just an Apple and iPhone problem!
Many of our Android friends visit this page to help them when they find their Android phones stuck in headphones mode.
Most of the tips listed above apply to any phone, Android included.
The headphone jack might be jammed with lint, dirt or other debris, resulting in your Android phone showing the headphones as active even after unplugging them!
Try an audio recording or music app
Reinsert the headphones and then pull them out–repeat a few times
Turn your phone off and back on
Try sucking out the water or using a small vacuum to get the water out of the headphone jack or port
Use a Q-Tip or similar and clean the jack or port
If necessary, add a drop of rubbing alcohol to remove anything sticky or stuck to the walls
Use a headset that also has a built-in answer button (or power button) and microphone. Plug it in and long press the answer button for 10 seconds or so. Then immediately unplug your headset without releasing that answer button.
Reader Tips
Reader Tips
What I tried was a video call on my iPad using other device using messenger, and it worked!
My problem was due to my speaker dying while it was connected to my phone via Bluetooth. My phone was then stuck on headphone mode. When I recharged the speaker and properly disconnected the phone from it, headphone mode was unstuck!
Some readers found that doing a manual (not automatic or scheduled) backup via iTunes to their Macs or Windows PC did the trick to get their iPhones unstuck from headphones mode
Try a remote! Reader CC found a solution by plugging in headphones with a remote. Then start up an audiobook, pause playback with the same remote, and finally unplug the headphones. Hit playback on that audiobook and for CC, no more headphone mode– it worked again!
Put your iPhone or iPad for one night in a bag of rice to remove any excess moisture. After at least 12 hours in the rice, power up and use voice-to-text to compose a text message, and for me, that fixed it!
Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again.
For iPhone 7s and models without headphone jacks, try plugging in your charger back into your iPhone and then immediately unplugging it. Repeat if needed.
Use compressed air, spraying into the headphone jack or Lightning port, AND AT THE SAME TIME, press both the volume controls in. You might need a friend to help you out on this one!
A simple solution is to switch ON the mute button and press the volume buttons. Headphone mode often changes back to the Ringer. Remember to switch off your mute button.
Open the Apple Voice Memos app and record a new voice memo. Solved the problem for me!
Try a FaceTime call. Be patient as you might hear no sound for 10-30 seconds but stay on the call. For me, the speaker then kicked in, and it left headphones mode.
The only thing that worked for me was accepting a call with the headphones actually plugged in, and then unplugging and plugging the headphones in multiple times, then hanging up.
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Go to Accessibility > VoiceOver > highlight the voiceover tab > then it will say press home button for canceling. Press home button. You will be back to Speaker Mode!!!
Yes! This definitely helps. I was cleaning my jack port and push a bit of dust inside. This was the reason that my phone was still in headphones mode. I removed this and everything works excellent.
I also discovered that the problem is caused by a recent operating system update.
This means that those who were updating the software messed up a very basic function and left it up to us to blow dry or use Q-tip to get their sound back.
The iPhone is very expensive device why cant Apple respect their customers and pay attention to this problem
One way I solved this was by taking off my phone case and getting a q-tip, removed all the cotton and softly dug into the earphone jack to remove any access water.
Once that didn’t work I tried changing ringtones while turning on my volume.
The one final thing that worked for me was sucking ridiculously hard.
I freaked out because I didn’t want to check my phone out, so if you’re desperate like I was, you’d suck onto the earphone jack until your at the point of exhaustion.
But take deep breaths.
This took me around 5-6 times and I checked my volume and it was alright!
Thanks for this article. Just an FYI on my solution. I tried many many things to get the sound back on my SE including compressed air and a full restore. What worked for me? Removing the hair ball stuck in the 3.5mm phone jack with a toothpick. Immediate fix!!
My iPhone 6 is stuck in headphone mode, I’ve tried clearing it out with a cotton bud but it’s still staying in that mode, I don’t have any earphones plugged in.
I can connect to a speaker and it will play music fine but it won’t work if I disconnect.
When I ring someone I can only hear them on speaker and they can’t hear me.
This one worked for me after trying all the official tips, I laughed so much: “Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again”
Had the same problem on iphone 6. Tried everything….and it was a hard reset (holding down both side button and home button for 20 seconds) that worked. But only temporarily as the problem then came back every time headphones used — it was an iOS software update/reload that fixed that. Must have been something in the software tripping itself up.
Thank you for all the great suggestions! I tried them all multiple times, but nothing seemed to work on my phone. Since I had nothing to lose at this point, and I suspected my phone may have been exposed to some water, I used my hairdryer to blow on the headset jack and the volume mode instantly started working again (whew!).
All I did was used a cotton bud, remove the majority of the wool, leaving just a thin amount, stick the plastic tube up the jack plug hole, twisting and job done ! Don’t ram, force or be heavy handed just softly
try getting someone to call you (you shouldn’t hear them), put on loudspeaker (you should hear them) raise and lower the volume with the volume buttons (it should say “volume“ rather than “headphones”) switch off the loud speaker with call still running and you should now have a working phone
Thank you thank you thank you!!! I don’t know which of these worked, BUT it worked! My speaker was working when I played my ringtone but wouldn’t play videos or my clicky sound when typing (which I love ). Thanks so much!!
****Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again.
I powered down the iPhone, put it in the fridge next to the milk for two hours, took it out, let it come back to room temperature, turned it on and my volume bar is back and the apps are playing on the speakers at they should. This is day three already, and it’s all good!
Plugged in headphones with a remote, started an audiobook, paused it with the remote, then unplugged the headphones, hit play on the audiobook and it was working fine!
Hi all, after trying many of the methods shown in this entry, none of them worked. However, after one night in a bag of rice, in the morning I used the voice-to-text to compose a text message, and that fixed it! The phone went back to normal after being stuck in headphones mode for the prior 12-24 hours.
Find 2 plastic cable and stick it inside headphone jack. Twist untill it comes back to headphone mode. Then seal the headphone jack while cables inside. Use lightning headphone jack converter and dont try to repair it with a replacement prt. Trust me, i tried to repair it and nothing worked. The only solutiin is sealing or disabling headphone jack.
Ahhhh! Lifesaver! I tried many of these but what seemed to work was having my phone on airplane mode and cleaning it with a Q-Tip. While on airplane mode I also watched a video and turned volume up and it began to work. Woohoo! Thanks for the tips!!!
My phone had water spilled on it and though the rest of the phone and the charging port worked okay, the sound was stuck. I went through nearly all of these to no avail but after reading the comments on how to call people still with speaker I was less concerned. I also discovered that ringtones (I believe that was one of the suggestions listed above too) bypass the headphone mode so I could still use my phone as an alarm. However, I tried one more thing and stuck it in airplane mode for about 20 minutes. I did not check till the next morning, but when I did it was working great! So thank you! It worked even with minor water damage as the issue.
Well , I took my iPhone 6 for a wee swim in the town baths … about 6 weeks ago . It spent a good 2 minutes in about a metre of chlorinated water . I took it home , opened it up , and let it dry in the sunroom on a hot summer afternoon . After that , I sealed it in a ziplock plastic bag with some rice and silicon desiccant packs , and left if for 7 days . In the meantime , i got a replacement battery for it . After 7 days , I replaced the battery myself ( a bit of a rigmarole , but it took about an hour . I fired it up , and apart from some minor screen distortion , and some of the sounds functions not working , away it went . After noodling with it for a bit , I realised it was stuck in headphones mode .So , I disassembled it again , cleaned the charging port and headphones ports with cotton wool and isopropyl alcohol 95 % concentration , and reassembled and fired it up .Same result .
Now heres the random part : I was goofing around recording some of my daughters toys’ sounds for ringtones , and voila ! All the sounds are functional again !
Moral of the story , if you drown you phone , there is a very good chance you can resurrect it – provided you DON’T TRY TO TURN IT ON OR USE IT UNTIL IT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY DRIED AND CLEANED AFTER & DAYS INACTIVITY AND DRYING OUT . Good luck ! :+)
Wow, that’s some story. Thanks for sharing it with us and glad you resurrected your iPhone and got it unstuck from headphones mode. When an electronic device gets wet, it must be completely dry (inside and out) before even thinking about connecting to power and turning it on. So great message AND story to go with that theme.
Thank you so much for this helpful website. The “accessibility help“ worked for getting my phone off headphone. Going into settings and putting it on speaker and back to automatic did the trick! Hallelujah! Thank you again and again, I was ready to freak out!
Turning it to airplane mode for 15 minutes fixed it for me. I also used a Q-Tip to clean out the headphone jack while I waited and the volume is back to normal now
Hi guys, I too tried all of the above methods but nothing worked for me. Even after cleaning or resetting your device you might continue to have the same prob. What I did was, I took a bud reduced it so that it would fit in the jack, dipped it into petrol ( gas/lighter fluid/deodorant) and cleaned the inside of my jack. Such method would erase any grease/solid particles which prevent the bearings in the jack to work. Once those balls/bearings move accordingly, it would make the jack functional again.
Cheers 🙂
I found a very small amount of water in the back of the cover and instantly thought that was the problem so in the hope it wasn’t i went through most procedures to no avail, then i noticed an update was due, applied the update and it’s working again….Happy days…lol
Airplane mode worked for me, I tried a bunch of stuff before that and nothing.
Was about to give up and take it in and tried what sounded like a far fetched idea, but 15 minutes later it worked again.
Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again. It’s really work thank you so much bro
I almost tried everything until this one finally worked! Try a FaceTime call. Be patient as you might hear no sound for 10-30 seconds but stay on the call. For me, the speaker then kicked in, and it left headphones mode. And it finally worked!! My phone got out from headphone mode finally.
Tried everything for over half an hour. Finally got some double sided tape onto a cotton bud stick, twisted around and suddenly it worked. Not sure if it was a combination of all of the tips but panic over. Persistence is the key and keep trying all of the above. Thank you for posting all of these.
Yes, sucking in air on the jack solved the problem. 😉 As goofy as it sounds, it’s the only thing that worked. I had been out walking in the rain, so I guess there was moisture in it.
I just want to thank whoever submitted the voice memo trick. I tried everything and was losing hope and recording a new voice memo was what finally did the trick! I am amazed, thank you!
Guys iv never believed any of these internet tips but believe me i gave mine a blast of air from my little hair dryer for about 10 seconds and guess what???? It worked!!!
Tried everything and then tried the first idea in the readers tips section; “Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again.”
Hello! I had been cleaning my iPad, and like the clumsy idiot I am, I accidentally spilt a few drops of water into my headphone jack without knowing. I didn’t notice until two hours later. I went on multiple websites and tried everything but none of the advice had helped. I started freaking out at this point, hoping I wouldn’t have to get my iPad replaced. Then, I had stumbled onto this website. Trying to be optimistic, I quickly looked over the tips and the iTunes one had caught my eye for some reason. I doubted it, but I tried it anyways. I did the steps, and BAM! My sound was working fine again! Thank you for saving me from nearly having a panic attack! I hugged my lamp, that’s how happy I was. The moral of the story is, don’t be an imbecile like me and try to be careful with water around technology (OBVIOUSLY!). Thank you! 🙂
I tried everything I could find on the web, but nothing work. Then I saw your first advice about starting simple: change the ringtone.
It worked. Never occurred to me, because the phone was ringing for incoming call in headphone mode (as it’s supposed to). Then I changed it back to the previous ringtone and everything is fine.
For those of you who have tried all the above and nothing is working you might want to try this… I used IHeartRadio and it worked, I pulled up the app found a station plugged in my headphones and while it was playing I pulled them out. This will pause the station, just hit play and audio should now start coming out of your iphone. Now make a call and you should be good to go.
guys this is crazy i spent hours trying everything but sucking really works. i know it sounds crazy but give it a good 2 mins of regular sucking then viola this is just crazy
I tried everything that you suggested. it was making me crazy.finally I rolled a piece of tape inside out, so the sticky part was on the outside. I stuck it in the headphone hole, rolled it around a little and it worke
Hahaha I tried every method of fixing including disassembling and cleaning my headphone jack. Didnt expect simply turning it on airplane mode and back off would fix it! Haha now I have a freshly cleaned fully fuctioning iPhone 6
Merely backing it up to iCloud (not even restoring from said backup) seems to have fixed the issue – how odd!
Thank you for this resource, it was very insightful for future troubleshooting.
Here’s how I got mine to work, go to Settings>Sounds>Ringtone, click any of the ringtones and let it play. While it is playing, press any volume button until it shows Ringer instead of Headphone.
Okay so I literally tried everrrything from compressed air to hard reset to q tip. NOTHING WORKED. what did the trick was going onto my alarms and clicking on the sounds and then going to your home screen and continuing to click vol up and down until the ringer popped up
same here.. it just started last night. 22 Jan 2016. I tried cleaning the headphone link, speaker and power… it didn’t work… The thing is that if you change the ring TONE there is an audio output and you can hear the different ringtones… I am guessing that it is a software bug because you have the new IPHONE that has no headphone function as all so probably Apple just modified the code to direct all audio output in headphone mode… ANYONE experiencing the same situation?
Tried all the steps, the wife even sucked on it twice. When I was just about to toss in the towel I sucked on it and that did the trick. She then comment I should look after myself from now on. LoL
I tried all of the above and nothing worked so I thought I would have to replace my phone. I decided before replacing I needed to back up my iCloud . After the iCloud back up, my phone was no longer stuck in headphones mode.
My phone is stuck in headphone mode. This happened while music was playing. I have tried all the suggested fixes on Apple toolbox and some others with no success. Very disappointed in this product.
My phone is stuck on earphone mode
I can’t hear anything unless it’s plugged in I’ve tried every method but still doesn’t work.
Cleaned it blowed into it etc..
Sorry to hear that your iPhone continues to be stuck in headphone mode. That sucks! Anyway, if none of these tips worked for you, then it’s time to call Apple or visit a store. You might need your headphone jack replaced, usually part of the dock assembly,Lightning connector and headphone jack assembly, or lightning port if iPhone 7 or higher. This is a repair you can do on your own, DYI. It all depends on your phone model.
If you want to attempt this replacement, make sure you know your model number and then do a web search for replacing the dock assembly or Lightning connector and headphone jack assembly for that particular iPhone model.
Thankyou so much!! I tryed blowing into the headphone jack and using a Q-tip… was almost ready to give up and accept defeat, and then I saw your tip to use an interdental brush! I gave it a go and yay it worked!!!
I tried all kinds of solutions with turning things on and off and plugging in and unplugging, sucking, blowing, pressing – no love. Finally I pulled the cotton off of a Q-tip and stuck it in thinking “the Apple techs probably tell people to never do this”… When I pulled it out it was *so dirty!!** and my phone worked again!!. I used two more Q-tips and the third was pretty clean so I called it done. A co-worker told me of a similar story but hers was that her phone stopped charging, and at the Apple store a tech pulled lint out of the port. So, beware lint and dust in your phone! I have had this phone for only a few months, too!
On the inside of the jack port there is a pinhead size silver pressure button. This button can get stuck with humidity, grime, etc. a little light scraping with a safety pin and a swab with alcohol can fix this problem. It did for me.
Compressed air did the trip for me, sucking and reset didn’t help. Gently inserted the tube on the compressed air into the jack opening and that did it. Thanks for all the ideas to fix the problem, very appreciated!!!!
Awesome trick thank you so much. The suck out hard trick was the only option that worked out of everything. Im so happy right now. I spent all day trying out all tricks and options and nothing worked until the suck out hard trick, amazing. Thanks loads
I tried few of the above mentioned stuff such as blowing and sucking out and i even plugged and unplugged it multiple times, It didn’t work. I was looking for toothpick. Before I could find one, I checked my iPhone, Luckily it was in ringer mode. I don’t know which trick really worked!! It fixed the issue.
Go to Settings/Sounds/Ringtone. And while changing tones change also volume with dedicated buttons. Change the volume constantly (so that the sign stays on) for about 30sec. then go to home screen and it should work.
over the moon!! the qtip worked, keep persevering with it. i think i clicks and activates the headphone port, so with repetitive poking it will work!!!
I tried absolutely everything.
The only thing that worked for me was put the phone in the plastic bag and put into the freezer for three minutes.
Ringer back on!
Actually my issue is different. My iphone 6 plus speaker is not working without headphone plugged-in which means Others not able to listen to me whereas I can hear others. For speaking with others need a headphone.
What will be the issue and how do fix it? Kindly help me please.
Actually my issue is different. My iphone 6 plus is not working without headphone plugged-in which means I am not able to talk to others (Others not able to listen to me whereas I can hear others.). For speaking with others need a headphone. What will be the issue and how do fix it? Kindly help me please.
thanks
There was a one two combo of “blowing the hole” and using the headphones to trouble shoot It worked wish I would have got online 5 hrs ago. I usually don’t post but I had to give u your props!
No wait never kind! I found out an easier way so go to YouTube and they’re should be a icon that looks screen with diagonal lines on it and you press it and use the one that has the random letters and numbers sorry for the bad explanation
I dried my phone with the hair dryer and used the headphone plug method and nothing worked, not even the soft reset. I used a tissue to wipe inside headphone plug and it worked! Thanks!
omg so i had this problem after putting my iphone 4s into a plastic bag with with a water bottle. i tried all of that stuff, didnt work. then i connected it to my bluetooth speaker, then unconnected it and it worked. guess it was just stuck in headphone lock or something. Def try to connect it to bluetooth!!
My phone fell in water and it was stuck on earphone mode for 10-20 minutes after that i turned it off and on and it was still stuck so I let my phone rest for a bit and it’s works fine now
I set the phone next to the sink while I get ready & brush teeth/do makeup…I suspect I got some moisture or powder in there…Qtip and headphones worked for me! Lifesaver! Thanks!!
I sucked, blowed, poked around with a qtip and tried to reset two times, but it was still stuck in headphone mode. Finally, I gave it a quick shot of electrical contact cleaner…that did the trick!
None of these options worked for me and I just started to do stupid things and when I pressed the Bluetooth button, the ringer and speaker started working again!
Omg I tried everything like 50 times each than I started to blow- nothing than I blew harder and I blew harder finally it worked thank you omg I almost threw my iPod out the windo like for real I got so mad when nothing worked >:~<
I had this same problem with my Iphone 6. I tried everything ha. I use spotify for music and don’t have music on my itunes but i went and opened my itunes and played music from the radio station and boom, it worked and fixed the problem. Ii closed the itunes app and went to spotify and music played right away. I appreciate all the info on here!
Thank you for this post. I was terrified at how badly I was going to get it from my better half, as I knew I had to come clean as to how careless i had been with my iPhone 6+. Boo to me, yay to you. I even tried taking it to a shop to see if they could disassemble it while it was wet an hour after it took a bath. Their technician would be coming in hours later, and I was stuck at work. I did the suckie and blowie trick, to no avail, cotton swab (No alcohol), and had to get back to work. Tried to turn on my music and let it turn off. ‘Not a chance underpants’, I spoke to myself out loud. Then, back to work, had a meeting, picked up my phone, turned up the volume again, and instead of it reading ‘Headset’, it miraculously read ‘Ringer’. I made a courageous call the the husband and heard him properly through the earpiece, and will not have to come clean after all! HA HA! you’re the most, and thank you to everyone for the rest of the feedback.
My trick was most likely that it had only a moment to take a swim, immediately unclothed it, and dried it as best I could in the time I had. I was in the middle of an appt, so I had to fix it 30 minutes later. I swabbed and, did the ear bud, in and out thingie, shook it like a baby to see if there was water swashing around inside; no problems there. I think it just needed to be dried out and left be, with my arms in the air and take a few steps backwards. Like I said, just later, maybe an hour or so, it is right up to speed again.
I tried all that was suggested, blowing the phone jack hole and cleaning with cotton tips, using the headphones, changing the settings etc to no avail.
I blasted the phone jack with the hairdryer (on cold setting) and it cleared it. I now have volume I can hear! So if all else fails, get the hairdryer out!
Cant believe it but it worked for me as well…I have become a sucker as well…I was geting worried that it wont be fixed…then in frustration, I plugged and unplugged Headsets several times…then i sucked at the headset Jack very hard for 1-2 mts…many a times…suddenly, it started working…God..
Oh my god I can’t believe it but my sound is back!!!! Just persevere and something will work! I spent the better part of an hour blowing, using qtips, sucking, resetting and everythi g else suggested and finally something stuck.
Try resetting your phone (holding lock button and home button down at the same time until you see the apple logo) while your headphones are in the headphone jack. I did this and when I took the headphones out the problem was solved.
I tore a small piece of paper into a cylinder and repeated push it bak and forth it eventually dislodged a large piece of dust/dust particle and the sound started working again.
After trying many times to reset, putting the jack in & out many times, toothpick, paper towel, sucking…. All of it. Finally I sucked and put jack in and alternated that a few times and sucked like I never have before… Viola! It works now. Sucking was the trick!!
Woooo Hooooooo!
After 3 hours of Qtips, You Tube Videos, blowing, sucking, turning bluetooth off/on… I went back to sucking and it finally worked. I did sucked in butsts several times and BAM! All of a sudden all my sounds were back (text, on/off)!!! Thank you sooo much! WOO HOOOOO
I took a piece of a waterbottle the arrowhead and i just dug down after trying everthying and this worked i never knew that a tiny blue thing of a water bottle would save my iphone
Yep, dropped my iPhone in a snowbank, and sucking on the headphone port worked, even after waiting, warmimg, trying to dry the port out with a paper towel failed. So your advice sucks, but in a good way… Thanks very much!
I’ve tried everything, I’ve turned it on and off, sucked at the jack hole, repeatedly pulled the headphones in and out, etc, and it still won’t work, but it doesn’t matter too much, I usually have my phone on silent. I think it happened when I was drinking a cup of tea, and spilt some. It landed on my phone, but I have a case on, and I’m pretty sure none got in, it’s only happened in the past hour or so, as it was working earlier & I haven’t used headphones since yesterday?
OMFG nothing had worked sucking plugging and unplugging rest nothing then I stuck a pice of napkin in the jack and turned it a few times and it now WORKS thanks for the advice!!!!!!!!
Fixed mine like this (nothing else worked even after trying a few hours!)
Took a earbud. Cut the cussion part in half, then cleaned the jack out with that.
Took me a few seconds using this…. Cheers
Cleaned it with alcohol and q-tip (i had to cut off end so used the stick. Rubbed for about 45 seconds then pushed volume Ctrl at home screen and plugged and unplugged headphones several times while the volume screen was illuminated. Had to still plug the headphones in after cleaning.
So i tried blowing (didn’t work). I tried unplugging and plugging headphones (didn’t work). I tried sticking a toothpick inside (didn’t work). I got all those ideas off other sites – then I sucked repeatedly for several seconds and yahoo it worked! Thanks! And the posts on here are hilarious!
It worked!! I was freaked out.. I really did not have the time or money to get my iPhone fixed.. It worked.. Thank God.. It worked!!! Sucking on an iPhone is never recommended unless this happens.. Lol 🙂
I tried all of these but they didn’t work, what did work was taking a small piece of dry paper towel and twisting it so it was thin and gently pushing it into the headphone hole thing and twisting it in there etc. Absorbs anything in there and cleans it. Now I have a headphone plug in it to prevent dirt or water from getting in there again.
I dropped my phone in the pool with a lifeproof case and some water got in I have literally tried everything unplugging replugging, air, sucking, rebooting, and still in headphone mode help me
hey if u got water, a couple of weeks ago i got water in my phone and it qwas stuck in headphone mode so i gave up after i tried evrything then the next day it randomly fixed coz theres water in the phone that needs to dry
Worked instantly for me. I had turned my phone off twice to no avail. I carefully and heterosexually sucked on the headphone port for a couple seconds and boom. Problem solved. Chhhyea
OMFG THIS WORKED, after dropping the phone down the loo (clean) I took my wife’s phone to the local phone shop and after charging £90 they fixed the whole phone. but since then it was dropped in the bath (just clean water no bath gel) I hate apple myself I’m a Microsoft person, and I don’t want to pay out again. after making love with cotton buds and sucking it off for about an hour it worked.
ok, i have tried everything on here…..nothing…. when i blow into the speaker on the right side tho, i get sound….as soon as i stop, it goes away…. i bought this phone secondhand so i can’t get it replaced…help!
rio i just solve this problem! Dont panic its nothing serious problem, dirt or wather or swet enter youre earphone jack and automaticly stuck the tiny ball in the jack! Hear me out! U need to take a wooden teeth stick and alchohol ! Put the woden teet stick little in alchohol just from the top and take the iphone and gently push two tree times the little tiny first ball in the jack of the iphone ang rub on it from the sides also little! The problem will be GONE ! 🙂 i solve mine
Had the same problem, when I unplugged the headphones, the sound was off. Tried everything suggested, and finally the problem resolved so that now when I removed the headphones I just press the play button and the sound returns :))
I had this problem as we’ll so I looked at comments on YouTube and found this one so I’ll tell you how : Blow into it or about 5 seconds then get a q tip and with the cotton on it go into the headphone jack but don’t go all the way down then just like twirl it to remove dirt or anything that is in there then plug your headphones in and out about 8 times then power off your phone about 3 times then go into settings and go to sounds and look to where it says ringer and alerts slide it up and down for a while and that’s it . You will have to wait 15-20 minutes then it should work good luck
The main thing is don’t give up. it will fix eventually…. For me it was the sequence of q-tip with alcohol to clean, several hours later sucked it with my mouth, then the hold both buttons for 15 seconds straight to put it in sleep mode, plugged it in and then held the power button for 15seconds to relaunch it.
I tried everything. I tried putting the headphones in when it was locked and holding down the lock button until the turn off thing popped up then taking them out and pressing cancel and it didn’t work. I tried the Q-tip thing twice, and it didn’t work. But sucking on it, SUPER hard, actually works, but it takes more than one try.
Everything I tried did not work. Than I sucked as hard as possible on the headphone jack
And it actually worked. I swear that is so amazing.
Mine was broke because I spilled lemonade all over it.
I simple sucking of the headphone jack port thing and BAM! It’s in ringer mode as I type this!
Try blowing air hardly right on to the headphones port! It worked for me. There will be a sensor inside the headphones port which will detect whether a headphone is connected or not and switch its speaker mode accordingly. If something obstructs its working, the phone may be set to headphones mode and may not change to speaker mode.
I tried uffff uffff…(blew air hardly 5-6 times)..
WORKED 🙂
Good Luck!
idk what to do nothing works ;C help i went to a eletronics store they told me itll cost 2500rub ps im from russia thats like almost 100 bucks ;C
P.S.S scared of doing the freezer
Was about to reset my phone, as I was backing up my phone. I came across this.
Sucking on the headphone jack actually worked. Like a bunch of small sucks of air unclogged what ever was causing the issue.
The Q tip without the cotton worked! I tried everything! But then i tried that for about 10 seconds and then got a new one and now it works again! thank you so much!
Maybe its something about the charging conector. I used to charge my ipad to 100%, but one day before i had the problem, i didn’t allow it to 100%. The day i lost the sound, i started looking for a solution on the web, and everything i tried didn’t work. So my last try was to let the ipad go to 0% and connect it charging to 100% all night long. When i tried the ipad in the morning, it had sound without headphones like always.
Some people has suggested the problem is something about the charging connector. Im one of them.
Hope this helps you and you understand evrything i said (english is not my mother language).
Thank you somuch!!! I thought my parents were going to kill me! I tried putting my phone in the freezer, cleaning it with q tips, plugging and unplugging the headphones, but the sucking is what worked! Thank you!
twisting tissue and sticking it into the jack WORKED, just like picking your nose, dirt came out of the jack and that was the problem. It worked.. thanks to this thread… SUCKING did not worked for me though ^_^….
I was having the same problem as everyone else and i tried everything. The only thing that worked was sucking out the ear plug hole on the iphone. I took a straw a little smaller then the plug in and set it in just enough so no air would leak. After doing that,i sucked so hard I think i swallowed a couple screws and maybe an app or two but it worked.lol. Just the sucking through the straw. Not blowing into it or shoving things down there. I dont know for sure but putting things down the earplug holes , who knows what else could happen, just a thought. But anyway, the straw trick is what worked for me. Good Luck.
Spray headphone jack with WD40 and then unplug re-plug headphones several times. WORKED FOR ME!!!! I work outside, suspect contacts got corroded because of moisture or maybe rain drop got in headphone jack.
Yes !! The cotton bud thing worked after 3-4 times . I would like to thank my parents and all my fans out there for your support. Haha I’m kidding thank you guys anyway !!
GUUYYYSSSS….
My phone is stuck in headphone mode….I tried EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING…..nothing works for me…This is making me so upset….can someone help me with this ??????
Tried everything – freezer, headphones, blowing, sucking.
Finally tried cotton bud but it was too wide so i removed the head and poked the plastic bit into the earpiece socket. Voila!!!!
I haven’t used headphones on my iPhone 5 yet, so it confused me when it said I had some in when I went to turn the volume up on my music, I tried sucking the hole where the headphones go in but that didn’t work, but then I took the end off a cotton swab and stuck it in the hole till it reached the end, then wiggled it about a bit, it took a few times, about 7 or 8 bit it worked!! Hope that helped x
How this worked beats me! Dropped mine (iPhone 4) in a touch of water earlier today and I’ve tried everything! Put it in rice (usually works when they get wet) and then before reading I tried the qtip (worked wonders on old Nintendo games ha) and read all these and finally decided to give in and suck off my phone and not only did it work but now I’m a “sucker” for apple!
Tried everything else and was starting to get desperate as I wouldn’t be able to get to Apple shop over christmas…..sucking the headphone jack really worked!!!
My son’s ipad was not working, tried the air blower and didn’t work. I read about the sucking, so I thought that using the automatic nose sucker of my baby would work, and it did (I changed the tip for a new one before using it). It might sound gross but actually is better than just suck on it.
I had spilled a drink and I guess some of it went into the headphone jack and I only noticed until I received a phone call and turned the volume up that it said “headphone” that I didn’t have in. I tried sucking very hard, I tried rolling a napkin up, I tried blowing into it. Nothing worked. What DID work however was taking a Q-Tip and taking the cotton off the end and putting the stick into the headphone jack until it hits the bottom. And then wiggling it around a bit, and voila! It worked! Hope this is helpful!
This worked for me, accidentally spilled milk from my cereal on it this morning! However it did take several q-tips (with the cotton ripped off), like 3 or 4, so don’t give up if it doesn’t work on the first one.
Phone got wet during Blizzard 2013. I tried the sucking, plugging in and out, vacuuming and a qtip. Thanks for telling me not to give up after just one qtip. It finally worked.
I tried all the other stuff and I almost gave up because they didn’t work, but Julia was right! the end off a qtip did it first try!!! thank you so much
You are a life savor! I tried EVERYTHING that was suggested on here and other sites and nothing worked except this! Thank you so much! It took 2 Q-Tips to get it to work!
I have a 3gs and had it on my lap in my car, got out, and it fell (completely submerged)in a dirty puddle for about 2-3 seconds. When I pulled it out, the earphone speaker didnt work, and the bottom speaker was faint, but working. After an hour the bottom speaker was completely functional, but my earphone speaker didnt work because it said it had the “headphones”. I stuck the Q-tip to the bottom, wiggled it around for about 10 seconds, didnt work. Used another Q-tip and it worked!!!!
My iPhone has the same problem. Honestly, I tried to suck the headphones jack, blew the headphones jack, rebooted the iPhone, unplugged and plugged in the headphones again and again, but, it did NOT work. Finally, I was quite frustrated and wanted to buy a new one, so I tried a new way: Use a narrow cottenstick and spray (or pour) a SMALL amount of alchohol on that cottenstick. Remember not to pour much, because the headphones jack would burn if it senses water. Just try it on the iPhone, anywhere (I tried it next to the headphones jack) if there has water on it. If not, then it is excellent. If have, then you might have poured too much. Then put that cottenstick with small amount of alchocol on it to the headphones jack, and rub it a few times, wipe the headphones jack clean, jab it once or twice, then see if it works. My phone did.
do this steps will work for sure
1. Plug in headset when iPhone is locked.
2. Hold down the power button so that the “slide to power off” bar appears.
3. Remove the headphones.
4. Push the “Cancel” button at the bottom of the screen.
5. Go to the phonepad and see if pressing the buttons now produces sound.
OMGGGGGG!!! IT WORKED SO WELL! I WAS SO HAPPY THAT I WAS JUMPING! IT WORKED. I WAS GETTING DESPERATE FOR A NEW PHONE BUT THEN I CAME ACROSS THIS TIP AND IT WORKEDDDDD! AWESOMEEEE!
haha!
been trying to fix my daughter iphone 4 all evening, tried cleaning the headphone socket with a cotton bud and alcohol, tried numerous resets and playing with software, tried inserting headphone in and out a dozen times, then came across this page… suck it?…. it actually worked!! ridiculous but it worked!
WOW, I have been trying for two days to find a fix for my iphone4, and then I see this post . . . it worked!! Thank you Thank you Thank you I did not want to have to reset my phone and lose all my data.
I tried blow drying, unplugging and replugging my headphones nothing was working.. I sucked really hard and presto it went back into ringer mode THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
When you drop your iPhone in sink (like my daughter just did) and nearly have a heart attack just blow into headphone port and the press either + or – sound then lock phone and DONT GIVE BACK TO DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!
Azab’s way deff works. Well, I was playing the music while writing down what he wrote and my 4s started to lock(the screen dimmed). So I tapped the screen and the audio for some reason just came back. Now I have all my keyboard clicks, sounds, no more “headphones ringer volume” when pressing the volume buttons. But I did Azab’s solution just to make sure. Everything is good now. Funny thing is my phone just fell off my leg onto my carpeted bedroom floor and that’s when it started. It was even in the otter box it’s been in since the day I got the phone. It’s only been taken out once when my clip broke and I had to send pictures to otter box of the case and the broken clip, cool thing is they sent me 3 holsters. Anyway, thanks Azab!!
Azab’s way deff works. Well, I was playing the music while writing down what he wrote and my 4s started to lock(the screen dimmed). So I tapped the screen and the audio for some reason just came back. Now I have all my keyboard clicks, sounds, no more “headphones ringer volume” when pressing the volume buttons. But I did Azab’s solution just to make sure. Everything is good now. Funny thing is my phone just fell off my leg onto my carpeted bedroom floor and that’s when it started. It was even in the otter box it’s been in since the day I got the phone. It’s only been taken out once when my clip broke and I had to send pictures to otter box of the case and the broken clip, cool thing is they sent me 3 holsters. Rep said just incase it happens again, I have a few back ups.. lol. Anyway, thanks Azab!!
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and It worked
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and It worked straight away
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and I worked straight away.
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and I worked straight away. Xxx
Today was my first time having a problem with my iPhone 4 being confused about whether the headphones were in or not.
The ‘Azab’ solution did not work for me. (playing a song, letting in lock, unlocking it and on and on).
I am lucky that I have access to compressed air at work. I sprayed air into the headphone jack and that seem to solve the problem — but only for a moment. My phone would then revert to the same problem. I repeated spraying the air into the jack, it worked again but this time I immediately plugged in my headphones. So far so good.
Funny enough — I did get a dental X-ray yesterday and my iPhone was in my front pocket. I did wear a protective lead shield that should have covered it; I do find this to be an interesting coincidence however.
My advice — get compressed air and spray it in there. If that fixes it, plug your headphones back in. Thanks for the help to all who posted previously!
Ok so here’s my iPhone’s story. It’s a 3GS about 4years old, I think. About a year ago it was influenced by water T.T I got it fixed (new battery) but now the speaker isn’t working. I connected it to a speaker which short-circuited very quickly (never use cheap speakers T.T). At that point, my iPhone rebooted. From there it’s stuck in headphone mode. I did open it up and take a look, it didn’t seem like any cables were damaged. I took out the motherboard so I could see the 3.5mm jack in greater detail and no visible damage, to that or the cables. From that I’m guessing my speaker is working (the 3.5 jack may have died D: I tried all the suggestions above except the freezer thing. So can anyone help, I have large amounts of XP with electronics, although I’m just 15. so absolutely ANY suggestions will tested. H3LP. T.T
i have tried all of these things and nothing has worked :(, is there anything else that will work before i take it to be fixed? if it can be fixed ? thanks 🙂
Had this issue and nothing was working… Tried one last ditch effort, plug the headphones in and the held the sleep and home buttons again to reset. When it came back up I unlocked the phone and unplugged the earphones. Back in business.
Thank you!! I did the reset & blew/sucked on the head phone jack and still no luck…but when I rolled a tissue up and put it in the headphone jack, PERFECT!!
I had the same problem and I was able to fix it by pairing a new bluetooth device (in my case it was my MacBook Pro), and the sound came back. I had recently “Forget this Device”d a bluetooth device and perhaps this is what caused my problems in the first place. The problem began when I was near the forgotten device (handsfree in my rental car, a Ford Edge, using Microsoft Sync).
This worked! I tried everything and I was really scared that nothing was going to work, but then while I had my headphones plugged in, I turned on blue tooth(I had had it off) and magically it worked!
Thank you guys so much 😀 . After dropping water on my iphone i couldn’t exit the headphone mode. I tried all of the above and nothing worked but the twisted tissue method.
All having the same problem with dropping water SHOULD try this it really works:)
I tried everything but they don’t work ! T.T I even tried the freezer one ! The only thing left that I haven’t tried is the hairdryer one, as I don’t have a hairdryer at home.. Please help !
ARGHH I TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THEY DONT WORK . I even tried the freezer one ! The only thing left that I haven’t tried is the hairdryer one, as I don’t have a hairdryer at home.. Please help !
ARGHH I TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THEY DONT WORK . I even tried the freezer one ! The only thing left that I haven’t tried is the hairdryer one, as I don’t have a hairdryer at home.. Please help ! I’m only 13 @[email protected]
I tried the reset, tried plugging and unplugging headphones repeatedly a million times, sucking and blowing into the headphone jack… none worked. I put it in the freezer in a zip lock bag for a couple minutes then sucked on the headphone jack hard again a couple times. And it worked as normal again.
I was eating food and i accidently spilled pepsi into the headphone jackbox.. I tried heating nothing worked.. Then in tried sucking the jackbox and it WORKED!!!! 😀 TRY SUCKING
Locked in headphone mode during a dental X-ray
iPhone 4s was in my front pocket
unable to get out of headphone mode
have to answer phones using speakerphone
Ringer works
It was thexray for sure
i had this problem yesterday and tried every suggestion above with no success. then i tried something i saw somewhere about putting the phone in a baggie and placing it in the freezer for 3 minutes. i only kept it in the freezer for about 90 seconds – but it FIXED IT!!!!! i dont know how or why but i thought id share with others for whom the sucking, blowing, cleaning, plugging, unplugging, etc suggestions didnt work. FREEZE IT!!!
A pressurized air duster (I used WooshDuster), with an extended plastic nozzle worked really well for me. You can stick the nozzle right into the headphones jack and give it a punishing flow of fluorocarbons. Instantly cleared it up and worked for me. U can buy these at computer stores, office stores, etc…
what if none if this stuff is working for you and you’ve tried it all repeatedly! cuz i am getting really frustrated with my phone and just want it to work propperly
K here’s my problem I have this and another problem too, my other problem is my headphones won’t click into place and I already tried others so that didn’t work, the volume says headphones when they’re not plugged in and in order to listen to music I have to hold my beats wire jack inside my iPod/iPhone input to listen to a song, qtips didn’t work, toothpick didn’t work, blowing inside or sucking on it didn’t work hair drier I didn’t try yet but I have my doubts what should I do I don’t want to trade my iPod for a new one because all my data gets lost/ money that I spent for in app purchases so… Any help ???
None have worked for me, I’m 12 and I bought this iPad with the money I have saved up, and I’m not planning on spending another 2 years to save up for another one, and I would really areas heat it if it could be fixed
Solution: (fastest) play a song
from iPod or any lengthy
duration audio clip and allow
phone to completely lock. Insert
iPhone compatible headset jack.
Unlock phone. Stop audio.
Unplug jack.
Thank you so much it worked but I also tried all the other things as well I did this straight after I did the pin with the tissue its fine now thanks so much
You’re a hero!! This is the only thing that has worked for me! Work phone dropped in water for a split second all fine but in headphone mode. Tried everything but your simple fix nailed it! Thanks a lot
i had the same problem.. I played game last night and got up in the morning. I saw when increase the volume by side button it says ‘ringer-headphone’. So i went through all the community forums to solve this issue..
I pluged and unpluged the headphone several times, blew harder inside the jack port(sometime dirts will be there)
i restarted the phone, nothing worked for me!
Finaly i did one experiment! It did wonder! My iphone is working asusual!
I on the automaticaly lock option after one minute! I pluged the headphone, went to music, played a song, i let the phone automaticaly locked(standby mode). After that i menualy went to music again and stoped the song! Then went to the main screen then remvoed the headphone! And i pressed the standby button! Wow i got a click sound! Then i pressed the wakeup button, slide it, I could listen the unlock sound.. Its realy work!
Its a small technical error..Between the hardware component and software,
Dont worry
You rock dude!! After reading every other comment I tried your suggestion. A little hard to follow, but it worked! Saved me $$ and a trip to Apple. Thank you SO much!
lol it has gone back in the lock after just a few minutes..don’t why its like..i have not plugged in my headphones at all but it has lock itself again..what can that be?
Thank you very much for your advice. My iPhone had gone into headphone lock mode for the whole day and i have just Reset it as you advised by pressing down the sleep and home buttons until I saw the Apple logo. My iPhone is now perfect well…For the whole day i have been trying to plug in and out my headphones and also blowing in and our my iPhone but it was not working until when i reset it. Thank please
Well bro I just read this article and it nothing worked I dropped my iPhone 4s in a bucket of water just this morning when I took it out I had to suck blow shake and dry everything on the phone and everything was fine till an hour or two later.
I thought if I left it a few hours it might work but nothing so I read this thing and it diddnt work so I go kinda worried. I just baught this a few weeks ago I got no insurance and dont know the warranty for my service provider so iv been crapping myself but I
Nt a give upper so I got a tiny bit of tissue and twisted it unti it was like a stick then folded it again and made it around the same fattness of the headphone jack thing and pushed and twisted like I was cleaning and it worked try that bro.
Omg thanks!! My husband dropped his phone in the dog bowl ad everything was fine except it was in headphone mode. He tried rolling tissue up into a pin tip to fit in the jack and put it in there an it worked! Thanks!
I used the alcohol and it worked. My phone dropped out of my back pocket into the toilet. I was surprised to see that it worked, but then it was stuck in headphone mode. When I got home I sucked on it and blow dried it on cool. That didn’t work. I twisted up a thin piece of paper towel dipped it in alcohol and jammed it in there. As soon as I took it out the volume was on. I guess the drying of the alcohol worked!
BTW I was extremely hesitant about sucking on due to me having to grab it out of toilet lol. I did wait until I got home which was 4 hrs later and I cleaned it with Lysol and prayed that I wouldn’t get toilet mouth disease lol.
What worked for me after dropping my phone in bath water & drying out by leaving (turned off) in a Ziploc baggy full of “Do Not Eat” packets I have been saving for Months & being stuck in headphone mode…I took a Qtip, tore the majority of the cotton off the tip & cleaned inside the headphone input on my phone. This worked!
The Q-Tip tip worked for me too. Pulled a dark piece of gunk out of the phone port with the almost cotton-less Q-Tip. Thank you for the innovative solution!
Yes! You are a genuis!! I’ve tried everything I’ve seen online but not the Qtip trick because a Qtip is clearly too fat to fit into the headphone jack hole. I’m a scientist but never occurred to me to pull off most of the cotton so it will fit (clearly I’m not as smart as I think…). It worked like a charm! Thank you sooooo much – you saved me a lot of aggravation.
Yay! I was so scared that this was the end of my much loved IPad. Sucking and the toothpick did not work but the hairdryer set on cool was the key!!! Thanks so much!!
While the sucking and blowing didn’t work, and cleaning it with a Q-Tip didn’t work, playing music did. I first plugged in the headphones and went to iTunes and played a random song, and let my phone lock automatically. I then unlocked my phone, and turned off my music and unplugged the headphones, and nothing. I then proceeded to go onto YouTube, and played a song and went to turn the volume up, and voila it was playing through the speakers again! I went out of YouTube and made sure it worked for the ringer too, and sure enough it did. So if playing music on ITunes didn’t work, try another music app, such as YouTube!
I tried every “solution” on this forum to no avail. Finally, I just decided to think independently, then voila! Get the trusty spray can of industrial strength “Ultra Duster” – the kind you use to clean computer keyboards. The plastic cylinder attachment fits into the headphone jack perfectly. Blast it in there a few seconds and presto – audio back.
I will agree with another poster – I never had this problem with a Steve Jobs era product.
thank you for your amazing site , it actually working I tried and my problem solved
thank you a lot
Thanks! Alarm Clock / Ring Tone adjustment did the trick after water damage!
Go to Accessibility > VoiceOver > highlight the voiceover tab > then it will say press home button for canceling. Press home button. You will be back to Speaker Mode!!!
it actually working!!!!!!!!!!!!! i tried sucking, q-tip and blowing so many times until it works. thank youu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! This definitely helps. I was cleaning my jack port and push a bit of dust inside. This was the reason that my phone was still in headphones mode. I removed this and everything works excellent.
I have an iPhone 6 and have realized every now and then moisture gets inside then under my phone case randomly.
It’s no big deal, I remove the case then I dry it. Anybody else have an iPhone 6 and have experienced this weird phenomenon?
When blowing into the headphone or lightning cable jack holes, where is the “debris” getting blown, deeper into the phone!?
My iPhone6 has no sound without headphones.
It looks like a common problem.
Apple is responsible for this nonsense.
I also discovered that the problem is caused by a recent operating system update.
This means that those who were updating the software messed up a very basic function and left it up to us to blow dry or use Q-tip to get their sound back.
The iPhone is very expensive device why cant Apple respect their customers and pay attention to this problem
One way I solved this was by taking off my phone case and getting a q-tip, removed all the cotton and softly dug into the earphone jack to remove any access water.
Once that didn’t work I tried changing ringtones while turning on my volume.
The one final thing that worked for me was sucking ridiculously hard.
I freaked out because I didn’t want to check my phone out, so if you’re desperate like I was, you’d suck onto the earphone jack until your at the point of exhaustion.
But take deep breaths.
This took me around 5-6 times and I checked my volume and it was alright!
I’m incredibly happy, good luck to you all!
Omg the using q tip to clean out the dirt workeddd
Great article, except for the comment about using rice to remove moisture.
If your PC board got wet, you need to get that phone opened and dried/cleaned (you can do this yourself).
Evaporating the water still leaves mineral residues– think of your car windows after sun-dried rain– which are a phone-killer.
Thanks for this article. Just an FYI on my solution. I tried many many things to get the sound back on my SE including compressed air and a full restore. What worked for me? Removing the hair ball stuck in the 3.5mm phone jack with a toothpick. Immediate fix!!
I tried the nifty tricks you suggest with no success. Maybe Apple could try this:
1. Take note if multiple people are having the same issue.
2. Fix it.
Alternatively try make a product with less glitches. If I “ease on down the road” per your glib suggestion, it will be to buy an Android.
the q-tip worked immediately
My iPhone 6 is stuck in headphone mode, I’ve tried clearing it out with a cotton bud but it’s still staying in that mode, I don’t have any earphones plugged in.
I can connect to a speaker and it will play music fine but it won’t work if I disconnect.
When I ring someone I can only hear them on speaker and they can’t hear me.
I don’t know what to do??
This one worked for me after trying all the official tips, I laughed so much: “Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again”
Had the same problem on iphone 6. Tried everything….and it was a hard reset (holding down both side button and home button for 20 seconds) that worked. But only temporarily as the problem then came back every time headphones used — it was an iOS software update/reload that fixed that. Must have been something in the software tripping itself up.
Thank you for all the great suggestions! I tried them all multiple times, but nothing seemed to work on my phone. Since I had nothing to lose at this point, and I suspected my phone may have been exposed to some water, I used my hairdryer to blow on the headset jack and the volume mode instantly started working again (whew!).
many pictures here too
Thank you! Changing the call audio settings was all I needed to have my speakers to work again.
All I did was used a cotton bud, remove the majority of the wool, leaving just a thin amount, stick the plastic tube up the jack plug hole, twisting and job done ! Don’t ram, force or be heavy handed just softly
Many thanks for your support. My iPad 3 sound was not working. With your support it’s working now. Amazing,,,
try getting someone to call you (you shouldn’t hear them), put on loudspeaker (you should hear them) raise and lower the volume with the volume buttons (it should say “volume“ rather than “headphones”) switch off the loud speaker with call still running and you should now have a working phone
Thank you so much for your help. I’d tried a variety of methods with no success. Closing all open apps and then doing a reset did it for me.
My iPhone 4 fix with Airplane mode turn on is working. Thank you so much. 🙂
Thank you thank you thank you!!! I don’t know which of these worked, BUT it worked! My speaker was working when I played my ringtone but wouldn’t play videos or my clicky sound when typing (which I love ). Thanks so much!!
Thank you! Thank you! This one WORKED!
****Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again.
It’s the fridge thing that worked for me!
I powered down the iPhone, put it in the fridge next to the milk for two hours, took it out, let it come back to room temperature, turned it on and my volume bar is back and the apps are playing on the speakers at they should. This is day three already, and it’s all good!
Plugged in headphones with a remote, started an audiobook, paused it with the remote, then unplugged the headphones, hit play on the audiobook and it was working fine!
I tried pretty much every option listed with no success however doing a manual backup via ITunes to my PC did the trick.
I tried cleaning and it was not too dirty but the airplane mode worked! Thanks a lot! Saved me a trip to the apple store!
me too,i tried the airplane mode and it worked.thank u
Hi all, after trying many of the methods shown in this entry, none of them worked. However, after one night in a bag of rice, in the morning I used the voice-to-text to compose a text message, and that fixed it! The phone went back to normal after being stuck in headphones mode for the prior 12-24 hours.
Find 2 plastic cable and stick it inside headphone jack. Twist untill it comes back to headphone mode. Then seal the headphone jack while cables inside. Use lightning headphone jack converter and dont try to repair it with a replacement prt. Trust me, i tried to repair it and nothing worked. The only solutiin is sealing or disabling headphone jack.
Ahhhh! Lifesaver! I tried many of these but what seemed to work was having my phone on airplane mode and cleaning it with a Q-Tip. While on airplane mode I also watched a video and turned volume up and it began to work. Woohoo! Thanks for the tips!!!
THANK YOU! Nothing was working and then I tried the backing up suggestion…worked straightaway!
I tried everything. Sucking hard on the headphones jack worked – amazing!
My phone had water spilled on it and though the rest of the phone and the charging port worked okay, the sound was stuck. I went through nearly all of these to no avail but after reading the comments on how to call people still with speaker I was less concerned. I also discovered that ringtones (I believe that was one of the suggestions listed above too) bypass the headphone mode so I could still use my phone as an alarm. However, I tried one more thing and stuck it in airplane mode for about 20 minutes. I did not check till the next morning, but when I did it was working great! So thank you! It worked even with minor water damage as the issue.
Well , I took my iPhone 6 for a wee swim in the town baths … about 6 weeks ago . It spent a good 2 minutes in about a metre of chlorinated water . I took it home , opened it up , and let it dry in the sunroom on a hot summer afternoon . After that , I sealed it in a ziplock plastic bag with some rice and silicon desiccant packs , and left if for 7 days . In the meantime , i got a replacement battery for it . After 7 days , I replaced the battery myself ( a bit of a rigmarole , but it took about an hour . I fired it up , and apart from some minor screen distortion , and some of the sounds functions not working , away it went . After noodling with it for a bit , I realised it was stuck in headphones mode .So , I disassembled it again , cleaned the charging port and headphones ports with cotton wool and isopropyl alcohol 95 % concentration , and reassembled and fired it up .Same result .
Now heres the random part : I was goofing around recording some of my daughters toys’ sounds for ringtones , and voila ! All the sounds are functional again !
Moral of the story , if you drown you phone , there is a very good chance you can resurrect it – provided you DON’T TRY TO TURN IT ON OR USE IT UNTIL IT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY DRIED AND CLEANED AFTER & DAYS INACTIVITY AND DRYING OUT . Good luck ! :+)
Hi Dean!
Wow, that’s some story. Thanks for sharing it with us and glad you resurrected your iPhone and got it unstuck from headphones mode. When an electronic device gets wet, it must be completely dry (inside and out) before even thinking about connecting to power and turning it on. So great message AND story to go with that theme.
Thanks again,
Liz
The tip about creating and playing a voice memo worked for me – thank you!!!
Awesome Cromerty! Thanks for letting us know.
SK
Thank you so much for this helpful website. The “accessibility help“ worked for getting my phone off headphone. Going into settings and putting it on speaker and back to automatic did the trick! Hallelujah! Thank you again and again, I was ready to freak out!
Thank you thank you thank you! The tip about putting the iPhone on Airplane Mode and waiting 15 minutes fixed the problem.
Recording a new voice note and changing the output to speaker worked for me (ios11.3beta2)
Turning it to airplane mode for 15 minutes fixed it for me. I also used a Q-Tip to clean out the headphone jack while I waited and the volume is back to normal now
Hi guys, I too tried all of the above methods but nothing worked for me. Even after cleaning or resetting your device you might continue to have the same prob. What I did was, I took a bud reduced it so that it would fit in the jack, dipped it into petrol ( gas/lighter fluid/deodorant) and cleaned the inside of my jack. Such method would erase any grease/solid particles which prevent the bearings in the jack to work. Once those balls/bearings move accordingly, it would make the jack functional again.
Cheers 🙂
Thanks for sharing what worked for you. Removal of any grease, grit, or other debris is critical. Glad yours is back in action!
SK
I found a very small amount of water in the back of the cover and instantly thought that was the problem so in the hope it wasn’t i went through most procedures to no avail, then i noticed an update was due, applied the update and it’s working again….Happy days…lol
Airplane mode worked for me, I tried a bunch of stuff before that and nothing.
Was about to give up and take it in and tried what sounded like a far fetched idea, but 15 minutes later it worked again.
Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again. It’s really work thank you so much bro
This just happened to me and I cleaned my earphone port with some compressed air. Fixed it straight away! Thankyou
I almost tried everything until this one finally worked! Try a FaceTime call. Be patient as you might hear no sound for 10-30 seconds but stay on the call. For me, the speaker then kicked in, and it left headphones mode. And it finally worked!! My phone got out from headphone mode finally.
If you go into voice mails and listen to them on speakers it could work. Try it!
Hi P,
Thanks for adding in your tip on listening to voicemails! We’ll add it to our reader tips section. Awesome!
SK
Tried everything for over half an hour. Finally got some double sided tape onto a cotton bud stick, twisted around and suddenly it worked. Not sure if it was a combination of all of the tips but panic over. Persistence is the key and keep trying all of the above. Thank you for posting all of these.
It worked thank you so much!!
Yes, sucking in air on the jack solved the problem. 😉 As goofy as it sounds, it’s the only thing that worked. I had been out walking in the rain, so I guess there was moisture in it.
Following the first few steps worked with ipad
I just want to thank whoever submitted the voice memo trick. I tried everything and was losing hope and recording a new voice memo was what finally did the trick! I am amazed, thank you!
Hi Jenna,
Glad this reader tip helped! We love getting tips from our readers–oftentimes, it’s these that do the trick for our problem(s).
SK
Guys iv never believed any of these internet tips but believe me i gave mine a blast of air from my little hair dryer for about 10 seconds and guess what???? It worked!!!
Thank you so much. I tried almost everything to no avail. It finally worked by testing the ringtone.
Tried everything and then tried the first idea in the readers tips section; “Call someone with your headphones ON and hit speaker. Once you hang up, turn your iPhone on Silent then turn OFF. That’s how I got my iPhone speaker working again.”
Worked first time 🙂
Thank you! I was panicking about the headphone mode because nothing was wrong just an hour ago. Your tips really help and it works! Thank you!!
Hello! I had been cleaning my iPad, and like the clumsy idiot I am, I accidentally spilt a few drops of water into my headphone jack without knowing. I didn’t notice until two hours later. I went on multiple websites and tried everything but none of the advice had helped. I started freaking out at this point, hoping I wouldn’t have to get my iPad replaced. Then, I had stumbled onto this website. Trying to be optimistic, I quickly looked over the tips and the iTunes one had caught my eye for some reason. I doubted it, but I tried it anyways. I did the steps, and BAM! My sound was working fine again! Thank you for saving me from nearly having a panic attack! I hugged my lamp, that’s how happy I was. The moral of the story is, don’t be an imbecile like me and try to be careful with water around technology (OBVIOUSLY!). Thank you! 🙂
I tried everything I could find on the web, but nothing work. Then I saw your first advice about starting simple: change the ringtone.
It worked. Never occurred to me, because the phone was ringing for incoming call in headphone mode (as it’s supposed to). Then I changed it back to the previous ringtone and everything is fine.
Thank you!
For those of you who have tried all the above and nothing is working you might want to try this… I used IHeartRadio and it worked, I pulled up the app found a station plugged in my headphones and while it was playing I pulled them out. This will pause the station, just hit play and audio should now start coming out of your iphone. Now make a call and you should be good to go.
vacuum worked!
guys this is crazy i spent hours trying everything but sucking really works. i know it sounds crazy but give it a good 2 mins of regular sucking then viola this is just crazy
I tried everything that you suggested. it was making me crazy.finally I rolled a piece of tape inside out, so the sticky part was on the outside. I stuck it in the headphone hole, rolled it around a little and it worke
Hahaha I tried every method of fixing including disassembling and cleaning my headphone jack. Didnt expect simply turning it on airplane mode and back off would fix it! Haha now I have a freshly cleaned fully fuctioning iPhone 6
Merely backing it up to iCloud (not even restoring from said backup) seems to have fixed the issue – how odd!
Thank you for this resource, it was very insightful for future troubleshooting.
the qtip without the tip (the fluffy part) worked
THANK YOU!
i had to use2 qtips
Here’s how I got mine to work, go to Settings>Sounds>Ringtone, click any of the ringtones and let it play. While it is playing, press any volume button until it shows Ringer instead of Headphone.
Great Tip! Thank you for sharing. We appreciate it and it definitely helps others.
Cheers,
SK
Okay so I literally tried everrrything from compressed air to hard reset to q tip. NOTHING WORKED. what did the trick was going onto my alarms and clicking on the sounds and then going to your home screen and continuing to click vol up and down until the ringer popped up
Thank Batman!
Now that is an unusual route to getting headphones mode off. Thank you for sharin.
Be Well,
Liz
I’ve an SE – it was stuck in headphones mode. What worked for me was giving it a good blast of compressed air.
same here.. it just started last night. 22 Jan 2016. I tried cleaning the headphone link, speaker and power… it didn’t work… The thing is that if you change the ring TONE there is an audio output and you can hear the different ringtones… I am guessing that it is a software bug because you have the new IPHONE that has no headphone function as all so probably Apple just modified the code to direct all audio output in headphone mode… ANYONE experiencing the same situation?
Tried all the steps, the wife even sucked on it twice. When I was just about to toss in the towel I sucked on it and that did the trick. She then comment I should look after myself from now on. LoL
Muchas gracias! This 411 was def. a life saver (or more to the point, a phone saver!).
I tried all of the above and nothing worked so I thought I would have to replace my phone. I decided before replacing I needed to back up my iCloud . After the iCloud back up, my phone was no longer stuck in headphones mode.
April,
I’m glad you found a fix! And thank you for sharing. We’re going to add that one in–it’s a great tip!
Thanks,
Liz
My phone is stuck in headphone mode. This happened while music was playing. I have tried all the suggested fixes on Apple toolbox and some others with no success. Very disappointed in this product.
My phone is stuck on earphone mode
I can’t hear anything unless it’s plugged in I’ve tried every method but still doesn’t work.
Cleaned it blowed into it etc..
Hi Jackie,
Sorry to hear that your iPhone continues to be stuck in headphone mode. That sucks! Anyway, if none of these tips worked for you, then it’s time to call Apple or visit a store. You might need your headphone jack replaced, usually part of the dock assembly,Lightning connector and headphone jack assembly, or lightning port if iPhone 7 or higher. This is a repair you can do on your own, DYI. It all depends on your phone model.
If you want to attempt this replacement, make sure you know your model number and then do a web search for replacing the dock assembly or Lightning connector and headphone jack assembly for that particular iPhone model.
Keep us posted and best of luck!\
Cheers,
Liz
Thankyou so much!! I tryed blowing into the headphone jack and using a Q-tip… was almost ready to give up and accept defeat, and then I saw your tip to use an interdental brush! I gave it a go and yay it worked!!!
I tried all kinds of solutions with turning things on and off and plugging in and unplugging, sucking, blowing, pressing – no love. Finally I pulled the cotton off of a Q-tip and stuck it in thinking “the Apple techs probably tell people to never do this”… When I pulled it out it was *so dirty!!** and my phone worked again!!. I used two more Q-tips and the third was pretty clean so I called it done. A co-worker told me of a similar story but hers was that her phone stopped charging, and at the Apple store a tech pulled lint out of the port. So, beware lint and dust in your phone! I have had this phone for only a few months, too!
On the inside of the jack port there is a pinhead size silver pressure button. This button can get stuck with humidity, grime, etc. a little light scraping with a safety pin and a swab with alcohol can fix this problem. It did for me.
Compressed air did the trip for me, sucking and reset didn’t help. Gently inserted the tube on the compressed air into the jack opening and that did it. Thanks for all the ideas to fix the problem, very appreciated!!!!
Awesome trick thank you so much. The suck out hard trick was the only option that worked out of everything. Im so happy right now. I spent all day trying out all tricks and options and nothing worked until the suck out hard trick, amazing. Thanks loads
The blow dryer was the trick for me. Thank you so much!!
It worked. Thank you so much. God bless
thanx man sucking really worked for me
I tried few of the above mentioned stuff such as blowing and sucking out and i even plugged and unplugged it multiple times, It didn’t work. I was looking for toothpick. Before I could find one, I checked my iPhone, Luckily it was in ringer mode. I don’t know which trick really worked!! It fixed the issue.
I tried stripping a q- tip down and leaving it inside the headphone jack for a few minutes .. Worked like a charm!
Go to Settings/Sounds/Ringtone. And while changing tones change also volume with dedicated buttons. Change the volume constantly (so that the sign stays on) for about 30sec. then go to home screen and it should work.
Thank you so much for the tip. I sucked it harder and then voila it worked!! I was already in vain, not knowing what to do with this phone.
over the moon!! the qtip worked, keep persevering with it. i think i clicks and activates the headphone port, so with repetitive poking it will work!!!
Yesssss!! Thank you!! The Qtip worked for me!
Thank you for the Q-tip suggestion , took a few attempts but it finally worked ! Thought I’d never get the volume to work on my phone again !
I tried absolutely everything.
The only thing that worked for me was put the phone in the plastic bag and put into the freezer for three minutes.
Ringer back on!
The sucking one didn’t work initially decide to do it harder and it worked thanks so much
Actually my issue is different. My iphone 6 plus speaker is not working without headphone plugged-in which means Others not able to listen to me whereas I can hear others. For speaking with others need a headphone.
What will be the issue and how do fix it? Kindly help me please.
thanks
Actually my issue is different. My iphone 6 plus is not working without headphone plugged-in which means I am not able to talk to others (Others not able to listen to me whereas I can hear others.). For speaking with others need a headphone. What will be the issue and how do fix it? Kindly help me please.
thanks
Q-tip works great for me. Thanks so much.
My kid dropped his phone in the snow. The hair dryer and a Q-tip did the trick! You’re THE MASTER!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
This was a life saver! Thank you so much!!! 🙂
Q-Tip is the key!! Worked like a charm!
Yay…the sucking trick works… Thank you so much 🙂
Yessss im so grateful for this i used the blow dryer technique and it worked
I tried the plugging in and out the headset and didn’t work. I tried the Q-tip trick and no luck either.
I used compressed air I use to clean the keyboard and this worked.
I played a video from my photos, then the sound worked!
Was fine after that!
Thank you
This sucking trick worked
You’re a genius!
Good God, when i switch the accessibility mode to ‘white on black’ it works!!!!…then return back to the normal appearance..z sound comes..try it
There was a one two combo of “blowing the hole” and using the headphones to trouble shoot It worked wish I would have got online 5 hrs ago. I usually don’t post but I had to give u your props!
Thanks a lot man I sucked hard in my earphone port it worked thanks so much man
I’ve searched for days and I tried the sucking and it worked!!!
No wait never kind! I found out an easier way so go to YouTube and they’re should be a icon that looks screen with diagonal lines on it and you press it and use the one that has the random letters and numbers sorry for the bad explanation
Wait do we suck the tip of the headphone cord thing or the phone…?!?!??!
thanks, the shop vac worked great
That worked
I tried everything and I still is stuck in headphones mode I cleaned the jack and blew in please help me!!!!!
I dried my phone with the hair dryer and used the headphone plug method and nothing worked, not even the soft reset. I used a tissue to wipe inside headphone plug and it worked! Thanks!
The sucking hard didn’t work. I used a toothpick as you suggested, and pulled out pocket dirt! Woks just fine now. Thank you so much!
Omg!!!! That sucking thing really worked! I was about to lose hope but then I said why not try sucking, it really works!!!!!!
Just go to settings, then to ringtones. Press the different ones and sound works again.
omg so i had this problem after putting my iphone 4s into a plastic bag with with a water bottle. i tried all of that stuff, didnt work. then i connected it to my bluetooth speaker, then unconnected it and it worked. guess it was just stuck in headphone lock or something. Def try to connect it to bluetooth!!
dont give up! it work on my Ipad!!!! thanks so much
My phone fell in water and it was stuck on earphone mode for 10-20 minutes after that i turned it off and on and it was still stuck so I let my phone rest for a bit and it’s works fine now
I set the phone next to the sink while I get ready & brush teeth/do makeup…I suspect I got some moisture or powder in there…Qtip and headphones worked for me! Lifesaver! Thanks!!
I sucked, blowed, poked around with a qtip and tried to reset two times, but it was still stuck in headphone mode. Finally, I gave it a quick shot of electrical contact cleaner…that did the trick!
Wow. Thanks! I sticked a toothpick to remove the dirt particles and its working now..thanks sooo much
sucking in the air in the headphone jack worked in a matter of seconds, really surprised me 🙂
None of these options worked for me and I just started to do stupid things and when I pressed the Bluetooth button, the ringer and speaker started working again!
Omg I tried everything like 50 times each than I started to blow- nothing than I blew harder and I blew harder finally it worked thank you omg I almost threw my iPod out the windo like for real I got so mad when nothing worked >:~<
didn’t work initially but kept pushing the qtip in then it worked!!
I had this same problem with my Iphone 6. I tried everything ha. I use spotify for music and don’t have music on my itunes but i went and opened my itunes and played music from the radio station and boom, it worked and fixed the problem. Ii closed the itunes app and went to spotify and music played right away. I appreciate all the info on here!
Thank you for this post. I was terrified at how badly I was going to get it from my better half, as I knew I had to come clean as to how careless i had been with my iPhone 6+. Boo to me, yay to you. I even tried taking it to a shop to see if they could disassemble it while it was wet an hour after it took a bath. Their technician would be coming in hours later, and I was stuck at work. I did the suckie and blowie trick, to no avail, cotton swab (No alcohol), and had to get back to work. Tried to turn on my music and let it turn off. ‘Not a chance underpants’, I spoke to myself out loud. Then, back to work, had a meeting, picked up my phone, turned up the volume again, and instead of it reading ‘Headset’, it miraculously read ‘Ringer’. I made a courageous call the the husband and heard him properly through the earpiece, and will not have to come clean after all! HA HA! you’re the most, and thank you to everyone for the rest of the feedback.
My trick was most likely that it had only a moment to take a swim, immediately unclothed it, and dried it as best I could in the time I had. I was in the middle of an appt, so I had to fix it 30 minutes later. I swabbed and, did the ear bud, in and out thingie, shook it like a baby to see if there was water swashing around inside; no problems there. I think it just needed to be dried out and left be, with my arms in the air and take a few steps backwards. Like I said, just later, maybe an hour or so, it is right up to speed again.
Good night, and good luck
I tried all that was suggested, blowing the phone jack hole and cleaning with cotton tips, using the headphones, changing the settings etc to no avail.
I blasted the phone jack with the hairdryer (on cold setting) and it cleared it. I now have volume I can hear! So if all else fails, get the hairdryer out!
In sound settings after none of the above work I turned sound lock off and then back on.
In sound settings after none of the above work I turned sound lock off and then NA k on.
Cant believe it but it worked for me as well…I have become a sucker as well…I was geting worried that it wont be fixed…then in frustration, I plugged and unplugged Headsets several times…then i sucked at the headset Jack very hard for 1-2 mts…many a times…suddenly, it started working…God..
Paper towel with a paper clip worked. No sucking required.
okay I was skeptical of sucking my phone off but it worked for everyone else on here so I tried it. PERFECT!
Oh my god I can’t believe it but my sound is back!!!! Just persevere and something will work! I spent the better part of an hour blowing, using qtips, sucking, resetting and everythi g else suggested and finally something stuck.
Thanks! The sucking worked! I was starting to get worried that I would not be able to fix my phone. Thanks again!
Try resetting your phone (holding lock button and home button down at the same time until you see the apple logo) while your headphones are in the headphone jack. I did this and when I took the headphones out the problem was solved.
Worked for me too — thanks
I sucked my iPhone through the headphone 2-3 times and it really worked!
Thanks guys!
Tried everything, but using the vacuum cleaner to suck it worked !!!!
IT REALKY WORKED I SUCKED HARD ABD IT WORKED LOL THANKS GUYS
I tore a small piece of paper into a cylinder and repeated push it bak and forth it eventually dislodged a large piece of dust/dust particle and the sound started working again.
After trying many times to reset, putting the jack in & out many times, toothpick, paper towel, sucking…. All of it. Finally I sucked and put jack in and alternated that a few times and sucked like I never have before… Viola! It works now. Sucking was the trick!!
poked with a paper clip, blew in it, tried the hairdryer, pulled jack in and out….nothing! blew in it a few times and it worked!
Woooo Hooooooo!
After 3 hours of Qtips, You Tube Videos, blowing, sucking, turning bluetooth off/on… I went back to sucking and it finally worked. I did sucked in butsts several times and BAM! All of a sudden all my sounds were back (text, on/off)!!! Thank you sooo much! WOO HOOOOO
I took a piece of a waterbottle the arrowhead and i just dug down after trying everthying and this worked i never knew that a tiny blue thing of a water bottle would save my iphone
None of these methods work!
None of these methods work
Omg thank you!!! I did everything i could and then saw this
it works when i suck it lol
I’m so happy!!!
Tried all of the above, in the end sucking on it once for a couple seconded worked for me. Good luck everyone, it was frickin annoying!!
I have the same problem I got the paper and put in there working again thank you
FOR ME,THE “sucking” method WORKED! I tried to plug/unplug but NO RESULT! THANKS AGAIN!!
Yep, dropped my iPhone in a snowbank, and sucking on the headphone port worked, even after waiting, warmimg, trying to dry the port out with a paper towel failed. So your advice sucks, but in a good way… Thanks very much!
nothing worked paper towel cotton ball hair dryer nothing sucked the coloring our of the the screen worked like a charm!!!!!
Oh wait, I sucked at it again, bingo! It’s now working, thanks!
I’ve tried everything, I’ve turned it on and off, sucked at the jack hole, repeatedly pulled the headphones in and out, etc, and it still won’t work, but it doesn’t matter too much, I usually have my phone on silent. I think it happened when I was drinking a cup of tea, and spilt some. It landed on my phone, but I have a case on, and I’m pretty sure none got in, it’s only happened in the past hour or so, as it was working earlier & I haven’t used headphones since yesterday?
This worked, thank you! I sucked on the headphone jack two times only..!!
Dyspn vacuum worked when all else failed
OMFG nothing had worked sucking plugging and unplugging rest nothing then I stuck a pice of napkin in the jack and turned it a few times and it now WORKS thanks for the advice!!!!!!!!
Fixed mine like this (nothing else worked even after trying a few hours!)
Took a earbud. Cut the cussion part in half, then cleaned the jack out with that.
Took me a few seconds using this…. Cheers
Holy crap! Sucking worked. Tried everything else with no luck. Who knew…
Cleaned it with alcohol and q-tip (i had to cut off end so used the stick. Rubbed for about 45 seconds then pushed volume Ctrl at home screen and plugged and unplugged headphones several times while the volume screen was illuminated. Had to still plug the headphones in after cleaning.
I think the tip of my headset has broken off and is stuck in the hole
blowing & sucking not workong 🙁
So i tried blowing (didn’t work). I tried unplugging and plugging headphones (didn’t work). I tried sticking a toothpick inside (didn’t work). I got all those ideas off other sites – then I sucked repeatedly for several seconds and yahoo it worked! Thanks! And the posts on here are hilarious!
It worked!! I was freaked out.. I really did not have the time or money to get my iPhone fixed.. It worked.. Thank God.. It worked!!! Sucking on an iPhone is never recommended unless this happens.. Lol 🙂
This actually does work. I basically don’t know why it happened but I sucked on the headphone hole (no homo) and it worked thanks.
My iphone was in headphone mode from 3 hours, tried many tricks. but sucking the jack hole worked for me… thanks…
Hair dryer didn’t work. Paper towel up the jack?… MONEY!!
This worked, thank you! I sucked on the headphone jack and then I plugged in and pulled out the headphones a few times and it worked.
Yup I reset mine about 5 times no good . Cotton tip no good sucked it for a few seconds perfect .cant believe it.
I tried all of these but they didn’t work, what did work was taking a small piece of dry paper towel and twisting it so it was thin and gently pushing it into the headphone hole thing and twisting it in there etc. Absorbs anything in there and cleans it. Now I have a headphone plug in it to prevent dirt or water from getting in there again.
I dropped my phone in the pool with a lifeproof case and some water got in I have literally tried everything unplugging replugging, air, sucking, rebooting, and still in headphone mode help me
hey if u got water, a couple of weeks ago i got water in my phone and it qwas stuck in headphone mode so i gave up after i tried evrything then the next day it randomly fixed coz theres water in the phone that needs to dry
Worked instantly for me. I had turned my phone off twice to no avail. I carefully and heterosexually sucked on the headphone port for a couple seconds and boom. Problem solved. Chhhyea
Hey did the same thing sucked on the headphone port for couple seconds issue got fixed right away.
sucking on it for 2 or 3 seconds worked when all else failed. odd. really odd
This helped me alot I just sucked the debris out of the headphone jack and now it is back to normal
It worked for me!!!!!!!!
OMFG THIS WORKED, after dropping the phone down the loo (clean) I took my wife’s phone to the local phone shop and after charging £90 they fixed the whole phone. but since then it was dropped in the bath (just clean water no bath gel) I hate apple myself I’m a Microsoft person, and I don’t want to pay out again. after making love with cotton buds and sucking it off for about an hour it worked.
many thanks
ok, i have tried everything on here…..nothing…. when i blow into the speaker on the right side tho, i get sound….as soon as i stop, it goes away…. i bought this phone secondhand so i can’t get it replaced…help!
rio i just solve this problem! Dont panic its nothing serious problem, dirt or wather or swet enter youre earphone jack and automaticly stuck the tiny ball in the jack! Hear me out! U need to take a wooden teeth stick and alchohol ! Put the woden teet stick little in alchohol just from the top and take the iphone and gently push two tree times the little tiny first ball in the jack of the iphone ang rub on it from the sides also little! The problem will be GONE ! 🙂 i solve mine
I found that a toothpick dipped in tequila did the trick.
Had the same problem, when I unplugged the headphones, the sound was off. Tried everything suggested, and finally the problem resolved so that now when I removed the headphones I just press the play button and the sound returns :))
Pressing the “play” button fixed the problem. Resolved, you’re a genius!
It really works.. Thank you so much..
what is the play button
Ps, I didn’t put anything in the jack, nothing, no cotton buds etc. just pressed play arrow after removing the earplugs.
Actually, didn’t suck or blow either, just really removed the earphones…and pressed the play button again
what is the play button
I had this problem as we’ll so I looked at comments on YouTube and found this one so I’ll tell you how : Blow into it or about 5 seconds then get a q tip and with the cotton on it go into the headphone jack but don’t go all the way down then just like twirl it to remove dirt or anything that is in there then plug your headphones in and out about 8 times then power off your phone about 3 times then go into settings and go to sounds and look to where it says ringer and alerts slide it up and down for a while and that’s it . You will have to wait 15-20 minutes then it should work good luck
Q tip and alcohol, only thing that worked! Thanks!
The main thing is don’t give up. it will fix eventually…. For me it was the sequence of q-tip with alcohol to clean, several hours later sucked it with my mouth, then the hold both buttons for 15 seconds straight to put it in sleep mode, plugged it in and then held the power button for 15seconds to relaunch it.
Omg.. Tried everything after spilling lemonade on my phone.. Q tip worked on second try!! Thank you thank you thank you !!
I tried everything. I tried putting the headphones in when it was locked and holding down the lock button until the turn off thing popped up then taking them out and pressing cancel and it didn’t work. I tried the Q-tip thing twice, and it didn’t work. But sucking on it, SUPER hard, actually works, but it takes more than one try.
finally after so many trials ur qtip tips made wonders…..thank u so much 😀
Everything I tried did not work. Than I sucked as hard as possible on the headphone jack
And it actually worked. I swear that is so amazing.
Mine was broke because I spilled lemonade all over it.
I simple sucking of the headphone jack port thing and BAM! It’s in ringer mode as I type this!
Thanks 😀
It worked… I can’t believe the sucking on it actually worked!!! Thank u!
Thanks, the reset….nope….the blow dryer…..nada…..unplug/replug headphones7 or 8 times….nothing…..suck real hard on the port….amazing!
Hoovering the headphone jack and speakers worked for me
Try blowing air hardly right on to the headphones port! It worked for me. There will be a sensor inside the headphones port which will detect whether a headphone is connected or not and switch its speaker mode accordingly. If something obstructs its working, the phone may be set to headphones mode and may not change to speaker mode.
I tried uffff uffff…(blew air hardly 5-6 times)..
WORKED 🙂
Good Luck!
idk what to do nothing works ;C help i went to a eletronics store they told me itll cost 2500rub ps im from russia thats like almost 100 bucks ;C
P.S.S scared of doing the freezer
idk what to do nothing works ;C help i went to a eletronics store they told me itll cost 2500rub ps im from russia thats like almost 100 bucks ;C
Was about to reset my phone, as I was backing up my phone. I came across this.
Sucking on the headphone jack actually worked. Like a bunch of small sucks of air unclogged what ever was causing the issue.
The Q tip without the cotton worked! I tried everything! But then i tried that for about 10 seconds and then got a new one and now it works again! thank you so much!
Sucking threw the earphone socket worked suck as hard as u can
Maybe its something about the charging conector. I used to charge my ipad to 100%, but one day before i had the problem, i didn’t allow it to 100%. The day i lost the sound, i started looking for a solution on the web, and everything i tried didn’t work. So my last try was to let the ipad go to 0% and connect it charging to 100% all night long. When i tried the ipad in the morning, it had sound without headphones like always.
Some people has suggested the problem is something about the charging connector. Im one of them.
Hope this helps you and you understand evrything i said (english is not my mother language).
THE Q-TIP REALLY WORKED HAD TO TRY SEVERAL TIMES BUT IT FINALLY WORKED THANK EVERYONE
I gave my iPhone a blowjob and it worked!
Thank you somuch!!! I thought my parents were going to kill me! I tried putting my phone in the freezer, cleaning it with q tips, plugging and unplugging the headphones, but the sucking is what worked! Thank you!
qtip…it works. just give it a few (6,7,8) tries and it’ll happen!
twisting tissue and sticking it into the jack WORKED, just like picking your nose, dirt came out of the jack and that was the problem. It worked.. thanks to this thread… SUCKING did not worked for me though ^_^….
It worked!! I can’t believe it! Sucking on it worked ! I tried do it on the bus!
Thanks! Tried plugging and re-plugging headphones, resetting, q-tips, with no luck. Blowing actually worked- go figure.
The only thing that worked for me was taking the cotton off both ends of a Qtip sticking it in and sucking hard!
Sucking really works… Thanks guys… Hahahahaa!!!!!
heyyy thanks a lot for all the info, I blowed really hard and it came of headphone mood…. I didn’t think it would work but it did…. thanks guys…..
Tried EVERYTHING. Phone in the freezer worked. Took it out of the freezer..a few minutes later the sound was back. Thanks whoever suggested that!
I was having the same problem as everyone else and i tried everything. The only thing that worked was sucking out the ear plug hole on the iphone. I took a straw a little smaller then the plug in and set it in just enough so no air would leak. After doing that,i sucked so hard I think i swallowed a couple screws and maybe an app or two but it worked.lol. Just the sucking through the straw. Not blowing into it or shoving things down there. I dont know for sure but putting things down the earplug holes , who knows what else could happen, just a thought. But anyway, the straw trick is what worked for me. Good Luck.
Sucking worked!
Spray headphone jack with WD40 and then unplug re-plug headphones several times. WORKED FOR ME!!!! I work outside, suspect contacts got corroded because of moisture or maybe rain drop got in headphone jack.
Yes !! The cotton bud thing worked after 3-4 times . I would like to thank my parents and all my fans out there for your support. Haha I’m kidding thank you guys anyway !!
whaoooo, i pressed down the sleep button and the home button, and BINGO!!! it works!!!!!
GUUYYYSSSS….
My phone is stuck in headphone mode….I tried EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING…..nothing works for me…This is making me so upset….can someone help me with this ??????
Small piece of tissue pushed together and inserted down hole and twisted worked 🙂
Tried everything – freezer, headphones, blowing, sucking.
Finally tried cotton bud but it was too wide so i removed the head and poked the plastic bit into the earpiece socket. Voila!!!!
I haven’t used headphones on my iPhone 5 yet, so it confused me when it said I had some in when I went to turn the volume up on my music, I tried sucking the hole where the headphones go in but that didn’t work, but then I took the end off a cotton swab and stuck it in the hole till it reached the end, then wiggled it about a bit, it took a few times, about 7 or 8 bit it worked!! Hope that helped x
Omg the vaccum trick worked couldnt find the hair dryer, absolute legend!!
Omfg it works !!!! Wtf ?? Just suck about 5-6 times really hard and whalllllaaaaaa working like new wohoooooo
Tried the Q tip and alcohol after everything else failed, it worked right away!! Thanks!!
Just dropped my iphone in the snow while playing catch with my dog. Ended up having to suck very hard but I got it. Thanks!
How this worked beats me! Dropped mine (iPhone 4) in a touch of water earlier today and I’ve tried everything! Put it in rice (usually works when they get wet) and then before reading I tried the qtip (worked wonders on old Nintendo games ha) and read all these and finally decided to give in and suck off my phone and not only did it work but now I’m a “sucker” for apple!
Wow can’t believe I had to give me phone a blowjob to get it to work again -__-
omg…i didnt think it would work but it did!!! sucking the headphone jack hard inward did the trick
Tried everything else and was starting to get desperate as I wouldn’t be able to get to Apple shop over christmas…..sucking the headphone jack really worked!!!
My son’s ipad was not working, tried the air blower and didn’t work. I read about the sucking, so I thought that using the automatic nose sucker of my baby would work, and it did (I changed the tip for a new one before using it). It might sound gross but actually is better than just suck on it.
Worked. Hooray
Couldnt believe it… Tried the vacuum on the earphone socket and it worked…saved a trip to the apple shop the weekend before Xmas 😉
Thanks I got it first try! Just put it all the way down and wobble it around for like 10 to 15 seconds and It works 🙂
I had spilled a drink and I guess some of it went into the headphone jack and I only noticed until I received a phone call and turned the volume up that it said “headphone” that I didn’t have in. I tried sucking very hard, I tried rolling a napkin up, I tried blowing into it. Nothing worked. What DID work however was taking a Q-Tip and taking the cotton off the end and putting the stick into the headphone jack until it hits the bottom. And then wiggling it around a bit, and voila! It worked! Hope this is helpful!
This worked for me, accidentally spilled milk from my cereal on it this morning! However it did take several q-tips (with the cotton ripped off), like 3 or 4, so don’t give up if it doesn’t work on the first one.
This totally worked for me! The qtip with the cotton ball ripped off worked. I did everything else…
Thanks for saving me a trip to the apple store!
Your a life saver it worked with cotton ball off I love u
Phone got wet during Blizzard 2013. I tried the sucking, plugging in and out, vacuuming and a qtip. Thanks for telling me not to give up after just one qtip. It finally worked.
I tried all the other stuff and I almost gave up because they didn’t work, but Julia was right! the end off a qtip did it first try!!! thank you so much
Its absolutely worked, what a miracle, saved my butt from getting ripped at the apple store. I had to use two q-tips to get it to work but it works!
Wow the qtip with ripped off cotton really does work! Only thing that worked 🙂 good advice
You are a life savor! I tried EVERYTHING that was suggested on here and other sites and nothing worked except this! Thank you so much! It took 2 Q-Tips to get it to work!
I have a 3gs and had it on my lap in my car, got out, and it fell (completely submerged)in a dirty puddle for about 2-3 seconds. When I pulled it out, the earphone speaker didnt work, and the bottom speaker was faint, but working. After an hour the bottom speaker was completely functional, but my earphone speaker didnt work because it said it had the “headphones”. I stuck the Q-tip to the bottom, wiggled it around for about 10 seconds, didnt work. Used another Q-tip and it worked!!!!
Thank you so much… Gave myself a headache from blowing and sucking on it… Stupid idea… Qtip worked first go!
My iPhone has the same problem. Honestly, I tried to suck the headphones jack, blew the headphones jack, rebooted the iPhone, unplugged and plugged in the headphones again and again, but, it did NOT work. Finally, I was quite frustrated and wanted to buy a new one, so I tried a new way: Use a narrow cottenstick and spray (or pour) a SMALL amount of alchohol on that cottenstick. Remember not to pour much, because the headphones jack would burn if it senses water. Just try it on the iPhone, anywhere (I tried it next to the headphones jack) if there has water on it. If not, then it is excellent. If have, then you might have poured too much. Then put that cottenstick with small amount of alchocol on it to the headphones jack, and rub it a few times, wipe the headphones jack clean, jab it once or twice, then see if it works. My phone did.
do this steps will work for sure
1. Plug in headset when iPhone is locked.
2. Hold down the power button so that the “slide to power off” bar appears.
3. Remove the headphones.
4. Push the “Cancel” button at the bottom of the screen.
5. Go to the phonepad and see if pressing the buttons now produces sound.
You are a legend – tried every thing else. Stepdaughter likes me now LOL
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, you are a life saver!!
have tried all day to sort this problem out and even apple tech help didn’t manage BUT the tip from poyan works! thank you so much!
I’ve tried every thing but failed until i tried your way!!! Thanks a million!
Finally!!
thanks poyan worked a treat
This really worked ,thanks alot!!
Did not work for me. Of course, none of the other tips worked either! Curse you Apple!!
OMGGGGGG!!! IT WORKED SO WELL! I WAS SO HAPPY THAT I WAS JUMPING! IT WORKED. I WAS GETTING DESPERATE FOR A NEW PHONE BUT THEN I CAME ACROSS THIS TIP AND IT WORKEDDDDD! AWESOMEEEE!
Tried all the other tips to no avail, but Poyan, you nailed it for me!!! THANK YOU!!!
Omg this saved me!
Hahaha too funny, been driving me nuts & I’ve been driving everyone around me nut, hey presto, I sucked the headphone jack and now it works
The sucking is the ONLY thing that worked. Thank you!
haha!
been trying to fix my daughter iphone 4 all evening, tried cleaning the headphone socket with a cotton bud and alcohol, tried numerous resets and playing with software, tried inserting headphone in and out a dozen times, then came across this page… suck it?…. it actually worked!! ridiculous but it worked!
WOW, I have been trying for two days to find a fix for my iphone4, and then I see this post . . . it worked!! Thank you Thank you Thank you I did not want to have to reset my phone and lose all my data.
LMAO I WAS JUST SITTING HERE SUCKING MY IHPONE JACK CUZ I WAS DESPERATE AN IT WORKED!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL thank yu community
OMG I thought you meant suck the headphone entrance thing and i was super confused LMAO
I blew my phone and it worked!!
I tried everything but nothing is working .. I have no other go but giving it in the apple store to repair it .
I tried everything but nothing is working .. I have no other go but giving it in the apple store to repair it 🙁 🙁
Use a hairdryer. It works. Had same problem.
Mate, this is bizarre…such an expensive and state of the art phone and such a cheap fix..Tim Cook must have really cooked it with a hair dryer.
OMG okay so none of these things were working for me either but then i tried sucking the phone jack as hard as i possibly could and it fixes it!!
Blow your headset . Just do it ….(I know but) It works .
Wow the sucking Tip really worked….
It’s ashame they were trying to make me get another phone.
Thank You
I had to try every trick and finally with one last try at sucking it really hard it finally worked! thank you
I tried blow drying, unplugging and replugging my headphones nothing was working.. I sucked really hard and presto it went back into ringer mode THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I hope u didn’t suck in the junk inside =P
im sorry but none of these methods work -.- 🙁 someone please help me out
i’ve tried all or these solutions but they don’t work and its still in headphone mode -.- :(( someone PLEASE help me
Wow Sucking the Tip Worked Thank You Very Much!
That is so true! You have to suck very hard at the hole, where you normally plug the headphones. It worked instantly! Thank you so much!
When you drop your iPhone in sink (like my daughter just did) and nearly have a heart attack just blow into headphone port and the press either + or – sound then lock phone and DONT GIVE BACK TO DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!
I tried literally every single thing on here. This is the only one that worked for me! Thank you so much!!!!
Azab’s way deff works. Well, I was playing the music while writing down what he wrote and my 4s started to lock(the screen dimmed). So I tapped the screen and the audio for some reason just came back. Now I have all my keyboard clicks, sounds, no more “headphones ringer volume” when pressing the volume buttons. But I did Azab’s solution just to make sure. Everything is good now. Funny thing is my phone just fell off my leg onto my carpeted bedroom floor and that’s when it started. It was even in the otter box it’s been in since the day I got the phone. It’s only been taken out once when my clip broke and I had to send pictures to otter box of the case and the broken clip, cool thing is they sent me 3 holsters. Anyway, thanks Azab!!
Azab’s way deff works. Well, I was playing the music while writing down what he wrote and my 4s started to lock(the screen dimmed). So I tapped the screen and the audio for some reason just came back. Now I have all my keyboard clicks, sounds, no more “headphones ringer volume” when pressing the volume buttons. But I did Azab’s solution just to make sure. Everything is good now. Funny thing is my phone just fell off my leg onto my carpeted bedroom floor and that’s when it started. It was even in the otter box it’s been in since the day I got the phone. It’s only been taken out once when my clip broke and I had to send pictures to otter box of the case and the broken clip, cool thing is they sent me 3 holsters. Rep said just incase it happens again, I have a few back ups.. lol. Anyway, thanks Azab!!
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and It worked
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and It worked straight away
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and I worked straight away.
Tried all the above over and over no joy at all so I got a tiny clean make up brush and gave the headphone hole and charger hole a good brush and I worked straight away. Xxx
Today was my first time having a problem with my iPhone 4 being confused about whether the headphones were in or not.
The ‘Azab’ solution did not work for me. (playing a song, letting in lock, unlocking it and on and on).
I am lucky that I have access to compressed air at work. I sprayed air into the headphone jack and that seem to solve the problem — but only for a moment. My phone would then revert to the same problem. I repeated spraying the air into the jack, it worked again but this time I immediately plugged in my headphones. So far so good.
Funny enough — I did get a dental X-ray yesterday and my iPhone was in my front pocket. I did wear a protective lead shield that should have covered it; I do find this to be an interesting coincidence however.
My advice — get compressed air and spray it in there. If that fixes it, plug your headphones back in. Thanks for the help to all who posted previously!
Even the fridge thing didn’t work FML
Also, my home button and wake button aren’t functioning properly; I switched to assistive touch and activator commands.
Ok so here’s my iPhone’s story. It’s a 3GS about 4years old, I think. About a year ago it was influenced by water T.T I got it fixed (new battery) but now the speaker isn’t working. I connected it to a speaker which short-circuited very quickly (never use cheap speakers T.T). At that point, my iPhone rebooted. From there it’s stuck in headphone mode. I did open it up and take a look, it didn’t seem like any cables were damaged. I took out the motherboard so I could see the 3.5mm jack in greater detail and no visible damage, to that or the cables. From that I’m guessing my speaker is working (the 3.5 jack may have died D: I tried all the suggestions above except the freezer thing. So can anyone help, I have large amounts of XP with electronics, although I’m just 15. so absolutely ANY suggestions will tested. H3LP. T.T
i have tried all of these things and nothing has worked :(, is there anything else that will work before i take it to be fixed? if it can be fixed ? thanks 🙂
The sucking worked!!! Thanks a million!
The sucking up part worked! Thanks so much for this tip.
Had this issue and nothing was working… Tried one last ditch effort, plug the headphones in and the held the sleep and home buttons again to reset. When it came back up I unlocked the phone and unplugged the earphones. Back in business.
Thank you! This is the only thing that worked!!!
Thank you!! I did the reset & blew/sucked on the head phone jack and still no luck…but when I rolled a tissue up and put it in the headphone jack, PERFECT!!
It’s not working
The freezer trick WORKS! In a bag, 90 seconds, BAM!
I was gettin Realy frustrated doing all of this then tried blowing in the bottom part where the charger plugs in worked first try
I had the same problem and I was able to fix it by pairing a new bluetooth device (in my case it was my MacBook Pro), and the sound came back. I had recently “Forget this Device”d a bluetooth device and perhaps this is what caused my problems in the first place. The problem began when I was near the forgotten device (handsfree in my rental car, a Ford Edge, using Microsoft Sync).
This worked! I tried everything and I was really scared that nothing was going to work, but then while I had my headphones plugged in, I turned on blue tooth(I had had it off) and magically it worked!
Put an ear bud in the headphone jack and slowly remove the lint. It is almost always the lint from your jeans/khaki pocket.
I tried all of the above finaly azabs trick helped for me
Try again and again with all of the above one should work
Thank you guys so much 😀 . After dropping water on my iphone i couldn’t exit the headphone mode. I tried all of the above and nothing worked but the twisted tissue method.
All having the same problem with dropping water SHOULD try this it really works:)
I tried everything but they don’t work ! T.T Please help !
Try again and again buddy if nothing works give a blow of vaccum cleaner to it but slow
I tried the hair dryer on cool for 30 seconds and mine worked perfectly
I tried everything but they don’t work ! T.T I even tried the freezer one ! The only thing left that I haven’t tried is the hairdryer one, as I don’t have a hairdryer at home.. Please help !
ARGHH I TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THEY DONT WORK . I even tried the freezer one ! The only thing left that I haven’t tried is the hairdryer one, as I don’t have a hairdryer at home.. Please help !
ARGHH I TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THEY DONT WORK . I even tried the freezer one ! The only thing left that I haven’t tried is the hairdryer one, as I don’t have a hairdryer at home.. Please help ! I’m only 13 @[email protected]
tried everything – nothing worked until…. placed a hairdryer over the headphones out socket for about 20secs. now works fine. thanks!
I tried the reset, tried plugging and unplugging headphones repeatedly a million times, sucking and blowing into the headphone jack… none worked. I put it in the freezer in a zip lock bag for a couple minutes then sucked on the headphone jack hard again a couple times. And it worked as normal again.
I was eating food and i accidently spilled pepsi into the headphone jackbox.. I tried heating nothing worked.. Then in tried sucking the jackbox and it WORKED!!!! 😀 TRY SUCKING
Exactly same thing happend to me
Locked in headphone mode during a dental X-ray
iPhone 4s was in my front pocket
unable to get out of headphone mode
have to answer phones using speakerphone
Ringer works
It was thexray for sure
Well I did that my phone now said it off headphone mode but music and clicking still don’t sound real has not change help please
i had this problem yesterday and tried every suggestion above with no success. then i tried something i saw somewhere about putting the phone in a baggie and placing it in the freezer for 3 minutes. i only kept it in the freezer for about 90 seconds – but it FIXED IT!!!!! i dont know how or why but i thought id share with others for whom the sucking, blowing, cleaning, plugging, unplugging, etc suggestions didnt work. FREEZE IT!!!
A pressurized air duster (I used WooshDuster), with an extended plastic nozzle worked really well for me. You can stick the nozzle right into the headphones jack and give it a punishing flow of fluorocarbons. Instantly cleared it up and worked for me. U can buy these at computer stores, office stores, etc…
worked for me…thx much!!
what if none if this stuff is working for you and you’ve tried it all repeatedly! cuz i am getting really frustrated with my phone and just want it to work propperly
Yeppp . Same here
Sucking really hard finally worked for me too. Thanks for the tips.
None of the above worked for me, but this did :
1) Connect via BlueTooth to a speaker system
2) Play a song
3) Switch from speaker system back to ‘iPhone’
This worked for me ! ! ! Hope this helps.
K here’s my problem I have this and another problem too, my other problem is my headphones won’t click into place and I already tried others so that didn’t work, the volume says headphones when they’re not plugged in and in order to listen to music I have to hold my beats wire jack inside my iPod/iPhone input to listen to a song, qtips didn’t work, toothpick didn’t work, blowing inside or sucking on it didn’t work hair drier I didn’t try yet but I have my doubts what should I do I don’t want to trade my iPod for a new one because all my data gets lost/ money that I spent for in app purchases so… Any help ???
Tried a million suggestions. Tried. Headphone in and out a million times. Tried all the playing song stop etc. nothing worked.
Then :
Hair dryer into jack
Didn’t work.
Wait an hour
Hair dryer into jack for about ten seconds
WorkeD!!!!
I did ALL of the above and nothing worked except the hairdryer. 20 seconds and it was fixed!
None have worked for me, I’m 12 and I bought this iPad with the money I have saved up, and I’m not planning on spending another 2 years to save up for another one, and I would really areas heat it if it could be fixed
in simple words this the magic:
Solution: (fastest) play a song
from iPod or any lengthy
duration audio clip and allow
phone to completely lock. Insert
iPhone compatible headset jack.
Unlock phone. Stop audio.
Unplug jack.
It works!
Worked perfect for me- nice one. Thanks.
Unbelievable. It Worked!!!
i never ever post to public boards, but your advice totally worked and saved me a trip to the apple store! thank you!!
This worked. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much it worked but I also tried all the other things as well I did this straight after I did the pin with the tissue its fine now thanks so much
Amazing! This worked! So HAppy :))))))
You’re a hero!! This is the only thing that has worked for me! Work phone dropped in water for a split second all fine but in headphone mode. Tried everything but your simple fix nailed it! Thanks a lot
I tried this after trying several other “fixes” to no avail. This is the only fix thing that worked for me!! Thanks you!
thank u for your help this worked I’m so happy to hear the music come out of my phone u have no idea this song is the best right now lol
i had the same problem.. I played game last night and got up in the morning. I saw when increase the volume by side button it says ‘ringer-headphone’. So i went through all the community forums to solve this issue..
I pluged and unpluged the headphone several times, blew harder inside the jack port(sometime dirts will be there)
i restarted the phone, nothing worked for me!
Finaly i did one experiment! It did wonder! My iphone is working asusual!
I on the automaticaly lock option after one minute! I pluged the headphone, went to music, played a song, i let the phone automaticaly locked(standby mode). After that i menualy went to music again and stoped the song! Then went to the main screen then remvoed the headphone! And i pressed the standby button! Wow i got a click sound! Then i pressed the wakeup button, slide it, I could listen the unlock sound.. Its realy work!
Its a small technical error..Between the hardware component and software,
Dont worry
That worked! Thanks!
My phone works fine now after tried for few times. Thank you so much!
thank you so much only thing that worked for me thanks again xx 😀
This worked! Thank you so much.
You rock dude!! After reading every other comment I tried your suggestion. A little hard to follow, but it worked! Saved me $$ and a trip to Apple. Thank you SO much!
I tried sucking, blowing, resetting, plugging and unplugging headphones and toothpick. Nothing! Tried your playing of music and it worked, thank you.
this is the only thing that worked for me!
That did it!!!! Thank you very much
THANK YOU SO MUCH AZAB 😉
Sucking really hard finally worked for me. Thanks for the tips.
blowing inward, plugging in and out and resetting iphone doesnt work for me any other way? Much appreciated.
lol it has gone back in the lock after just a few minutes..don’t why its like..i have not plugged in my headphones at all but it has lock itself again..what can that be?
Thank you very much for your advice. My iPhone had gone into headphone lock mode for the whole day and i have just Reset it as you advised by pressing down the sleep and home buttons until I saw the Apple logo. My iPhone is now perfect well…For the whole day i have been trying to plug in and out my headphones and also blowing in and our my iPhone but it was not working until when i reset it. Thank please
Yeah actually the “hard” blowing thin worked for me as well! Eternally grateful!
What if none of this works?
Well bro I just read this article and it nothing worked I dropped my iPhone 4s in a bucket of water just this morning when I took it out I had to suck blow shake and dry everything on the phone and everything was fine till an hour or two later.
I thought if I left it a few hours it might work but nothing so I read this thing and it diddnt work so I go kinda worried. I just baught this a few weeks ago I got no insurance and dont know the warranty for my service provider so iv been crapping myself but I
Nt a give upper so I got a tiny bit of tissue and twisted it unti it was like a stick then folded it again and made it around the same fattness of the headphone jack thing and pushed and twisted like I was cleaning and it worked try that bro.
Omg thanks!! My husband dropped his phone in the dog bowl ad everything was fine except it was in headphone mode. He tried rolling tissue up into a pin tip to fit in the jack and put it in there an it worked! Thanks!
I have been trying for ages to get my headphone mode off and the tissue really helped and it’s fixed now!x
Yr a genius!! Giv yrself a gold star!! Ps i wet the tip wth a bit o spit for xtra cleanability n hey presto!! Buy u a beer wen yr in sydney:-)
Thank u . I tried blowing and sucking and unplugging and plugging and when I twisted the piece of tissue it worked. Thankssssss
I used the alcohol and it worked. My phone dropped out of my back pocket into the toilet. I was surprised to see that it worked, but then it was stuck in headphone mode. When I got home I sucked on it and blow dried it on cool. That didn’t work. I twisted up a thin piece of paper towel dipped it in alcohol and jammed it in there. As soon as I took it out the volume was on. I guess the drying of the alcohol worked!
BTW I was extremely hesitant about sucking on due to me having to grab it out of toilet lol. I did wait until I got home which was 4 hrs later and I cleaned it with Lysol and prayed that I wouldn’t get toilet mouth disease lol.
Tried it all , then the ” air in a can ” worked . The stuff you use to clean key board . One good shot did the trick !
Thanks for the tip. It helped me and my phone works now
Amazing! I sucked hard inwards like you said and it worked but the repeatitive Plug solution didn’t work for me. Thank god I found this idea
Thanks so much!!! The sucking did not work initially so I rebooted to no avail…So, I decided to suck harder:)! It worked!!!
That’s what she said!
Omg! It really worked. I was about to throw the phone out the window but it’s fixed. HALLELUJAH!!! Blow HARD!!!
awesome. the sucking up trick was great.
Thanks a lot. :]
What worked for me after dropping my phone in bath water & drying out by leaving (turned off) in a Ziploc baggy full of “Do Not Eat” packets I have been saving for Months & being stuck in headphone mode…I took a Qtip, tore the majority of the cotton off the tip & cleaned inside the headphone input on my phone. This worked!
Dear Laney C,
Thank you so much for the Q-tip tip. That saved my life. You are my favorite person of all time.
The Q-Tip tip worked for me too. Pulled a dark piece of gunk out of the phone port with the almost cotton-less Q-Tip. Thank you for the innovative solution!
iphone6 only appil logo how ro solution pls help me thanks
You are my hero! Qtip thing worked after several tries!
Several times with the Q tip worked for me too!
LaneyC,
Yes! You are a genuis!! I’ve tried everything I’ve seen online but not the Qtip trick because a Qtip is clearly too fat to fit into the headphone jack hole. I’m a scientist but never occurred to me to pull off most of the cotton so it will fit (clearly I’m not as smart as I think…). It worked like a charm! Thank you sooooo much – you saved me a lot of aggravation.
The q-tip worked! Thanks for posting
Thank you! After running to Verizon the past 2 times. I just did the Qtip trick and it worked. The others ideas did not work for me.
NOTHING works. This really pisses me off. Tim Cook, take some of the nearly $200 billion in cash on hand and FIX this problem now, or resign.
None of the suggestions worked, then I decided to try sucking the headphone plug outlet with my vacuum cleaner! SUCCESS!!!
Thank you! None of the other suggestions worked except the vacuum idea!
Omg nothing else work until I did this you are a genius
Yay! I was so scared that this was the end of my much loved IPad. Sucking and the toothpick did not work but the hairdryer set on cool was the key!!! Thanks so much!!
While the sucking and blowing didn’t work, and cleaning it with a Q-Tip didn’t work, playing music did. I first plugged in the headphones and went to iTunes and played a random song, and let my phone lock automatically. I then unlocked my phone, and turned off my music and unplugged the headphones, and nothing. I then proceeded to go onto YouTube, and played a song and went to turn the volume up, and voila it was playing through the speakers again! I went out of YouTube and made sure it worked for the ringer too, and sure enough it did. So if playing music on ITunes didn’t work, try another music app, such as YouTube!
I tried every “solution” on this forum to no avail. Finally, I just decided to think independently, then voila! Get the trusty spray can of industrial strength “Ultra Duster” – the kind you use to clean computer keyboards. The plastic cylinder attachment fits into the headphone jack perfectly. Blast it in there a few seconds and presto – audio back.
I will agree with another poster – I never had this problem with a Steve Jobs era product.